Description
Date: 24 September, 2020. Webinar
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
Material decay and corrosion are natural processes. Almost all materials will in one way or another decay over time. The effects of corrosion in our daily lives can be seen both in our households, but also in the infrastructure we use to e.g. travel from home to work or school and in the industrial facilities that produce what we need to have comfortable and healthy lives.
Even materials, which we believe to be resistant to corrosion like stainless steels, do corrode in certain circumstances. To protect materials from corrosion we first have to understand why it occurs after which we can find solutions to avoid it as much as possible.
Avoiding corrosion means we can save costs and in extreme situations even save lives.
At the end of this steeltalk, participants will be able to:
- Identify different types of corrosion affecting various materials.
- Explain the mechanisms of corrosion and how they impact structural integrity.
- Compare corrosion prevention techniques for different environmental conditions.
- Assess the economic and environmental benefits of selecting corrosion-resistant materials.
Speaker Introduction
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Tim was born and grew up in the home of UK stainless steelmaking, Sheffield. Whilst at school he worked part-time for his father making steelworks thermocouples and laboratory furnaces. After leaving school he studied metallurgy at university and joined British Steel Stainless immediately after graduating. A succession of industry mergers saw Tim undertaking senior stainless technical, operations and supply chain roles in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK before joining the ISSF (now worldstainless) in August 2019. During his career Tim also found time to study Goldratt’s teaching on lean flow and operations, gain a postgraduate diploma in operations and inventory management and a masters degree in business administration. Away from work Tim still supports his boyhood football club, Sheffield Wednesday and enjoys rock music, cycling, fine wines and craft ales. |
Course Content
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
