THE WEAR OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND PROTECTION AND CORROSION SHORT COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED

One-day course being held: Sunday August 24, 2008.

The morning course content will focus on "Wear", while the afternoon portion of the course will concentration on "Corrosion".

Price: $350 (Students $175) includes course notes, lunch and refreshments. REGISTER NOW!

WEAR - AM

INSTRUCTOR

D.Y. Li, PhD, P.Eng., Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta. D.Y. Li has conducted extensive research on wear of materials and protection, and has accumulated rich experience in the development of high-performance wear-resistant materials, surface engineering against wear and modeling wear processes.

This course would be of benefit to researchers, engineers and students interested in understanding some of the basics of wear of engineering materials. Also the course would be beneficial to those who have encountered practical friction or wear problems and wish to learn modern methods of controlling such problems.

COURSE OUTLINE

Wear is one of main failure processes in industry, which very adversely affects industrial productivity and profitability. This short course will introduce typical wear modes and testing/characterization techniques, tribological behavior of materials, and approaches for wear control.

TOPICS

• Wear modes, mechanisms, testing and characterization
  
• Abrasion, adhesion, erosion, corrosive/oxidative wear, fretting
  
• Wear behavior of engineering materials
  
• Metallic materials, ceramics, composites, others
  
• Surface engineering for wear protection
  
• Surface modification, protective coatings, others

CORROSION - PM

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Akram Alfantazi, Ph.D., P.Eng is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of British Columbia. His teaching and research interests include corrosion, electrochemical processes in materials and electrometallurgy. Dr. Alfantazi received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in 1994. Dr. Alfantazi has over 12 years of industrial, academic and consulting experience in the field. He serves as the past chair of the Materials Integrity and Performance Section of the Metallurgical Society of CIM. He is in the Editorial Board of Reviewers of Materials and Metallurgical Transactions. Dr. Alfantazi has instructed and organized a number of workshops, industrial short courses and seminars in corrosion and other areas for CIM, TMS, universities and research organizations world wide. He has authored or coauthored over 75 journal papers and technical publications.

This course is intended for all technical people such as engineers, technologists and technicians involved in the materials and related fields. This course would be particularly suitable to maintenance, engineering design, operations and process personnel who would benefit from an overview of the corrosion fundaments and current knowledge on corrosion technology.

COURSE OUTLINE

This course will review the fundamentals of corrosion with reference to the industrial cases. A short account of the economic and social impact of corrosion will be presented. Real case studies will be used to illustrate relevant corrosion issues in industry. The instructors will share their expertise on how you can best manage your materials costs while improving materials performance and reliability.

TOPICS

• Economic, social, political and environmental impacts of corrosion and environmental impacts of corrosion
• Thermodynamics of corrosion
• Kinetics of corrosion
  
• Corrosion rate measurement techniques
• Passivity / localized corrosion
• Corrosion inhibitors
• Industrial corrosion cases.