Educational Courses

Overview:

Titanium and its alloys, a versatile family of metals with applications in many industries, have high strength-to-weight ratios, excellent corrosion resistance, and superior biocompatibility. This unique combination of physical, mechanical, and chemical properties make them attractive for aerospace, marine, industrial, and biomedical applications. This course provides an overview of this rapidly growing industry.

Who Should Attend:

• Aerospace Engineers
• QA Managers
• Designers
• Technicians
• Metallurgists
• Chemical and petroleum industry specialists

• Outline the history, extraction, and development of titanium and its alloys
• Discuss applications of titanium and its alloys in aerospace and other industries
• List mechanical and corrosion characteristics of titanium and its alloys
• Describe basic processing methods of titanium and its alloys

Rodney Boyer, FASM
Rod Boyer has been with the Boeing Company for 40 years, and has been a titanium specialist for more than 35 years, starting with his research on the Boeing Supersonic aircraft program. He has conducted research on all of the conventional alloy systems, (beta, alpha/beta and beta type alloys) on all product forms, and most of the processing technologies utilized for titanium alloys. As a result of his efforts Mr. Boyer won several awards and has more than 200 presentations/publications and has been the co-editor of six books.

Prabir K. Chaudhury, PhD
Dr. Chaudhury is a Principal Materials Engineer at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Chandler, Arizona. He is a Metallurgical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of California, Irvine, CA. His expertise is in the areas of physical and mechanical metallurgy with extensive background in high temperature deformation, including thermomechanical processing of metals, alloys, and metal matrix composite materials. He has 20 years of experience in research and development, including manufacturing process development of Ti, Al, Mg, and other metals and their alloys. He has extensive teaching experience at Universities, and at professional level in the industry, under Defense programs, and through ASM International.