Event Details
Full Course Description
When: April 23, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where: Courtyard by Marriott, Santa Ana, CA
Instructor(s): Laurence Claus
IFI MEMBERS ATTEND FOR FREE!
NON-MEMBER Pricing: Early bird pricing is available until Tuesday, April 8, 2025. The cost is $498 per day. Prices will increase to $550 / day on April 9, 2025.
IFI Training Topic – Day 2: Aerospace Materials
COURSE DETAILS:
Explore the basics of aerospace materials in this all-day class presented by Laurence Claus, IFI Director of Education and Training. Gain an overview of materials used for fasteners – specifically those commonly used for aerospace fasteners. The class is broken into three segments —
Fastener Materials
Gain a broad introduction to material families from which fasteners are made – carbon and alloy steels, stainless steels, aluminum alloys, nickel alloys, titanium and copper alloys. Each material family will be covered with special emphasis on the material families used for aerospace fasteners – titanium, aluminum, nickel alloys and alloy steels.
Mill Melts
Explore how the mill melts and processes specialty metals and titanium into an intermediate wire product.
Intermediate Product to Final Wire Product
Examine how the intermediate product from the mill is further processed into a final wire product that can be used by fastener manufacturers.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Engineering
- Quality
- Quoting
- Materials
- Sales
- Anyone who would like to learn more about materials used to manufacture fasteners, especially aerospace fasteners