Professional education in Centre for High Performance Steel

Within the CHS research area, we offer a number of courses that are open to participants from industry.

Metal Working

Course content

Metal working is about evaluating the behaviour of metals during forming, with regard to both material- and process dependent parameters, such as microstructural evolution, mechanical properties and modelling. The course includes metallurgy, from slabs to final product including heat treatment. You will learn to analyse and simulate metal processing with simple empirical and semi-empirical methods, as well as exemplify when finite element modelling can be used for rolling. The course consists of lectures, exercises, home assignments and possibly a study-visit (only for students at Luleå Campus). You can study this course without physical meetings, completely web-based.

The course is multidisciplinary, combining materials science and solid mechanics. The steel industry has a spoken need of future engineers with this unique combination of competences.

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Material fatigue

This course is aimed at industrial engineers who want to learn more about fatigue issues in mechanical components. We will go through why the fatigue range is important, how fatigue failure occurs and, most importantly, how to dimension mechanical components to avoid fatigue.

Course content

This course deals with fatigue of mechanical components. We begin with an introductory part where we introduce the phenomenon of exhaustion, discuss how and why exhaustion occurs, why it is important, and review the terminology. Next, we learn a method for dimensioning against fatigue failure, and discuss how we use this in FEM. Finally, we go through loads with variable amplitude, partial damage and how standards for fatigue dimensioning work.

Arrangement

The course is given in the form of lectures (3 x 2 hours) and problem-solving sessions (2 x 2 hours) digitally via Microsoft Teams. Between the activities, the participants solve problems on their own in the form of assignments that make up the course's examination. The course is suitable for engineers who have basic knowledge of strength theory.

Registration

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