National Apprenticeship Week: A cracking time with Cracking Mechanisms

The Welding Institute invites all our UK Members to join us for this talk as part of National Apprenticeship Week. This talk is part of a series of tea time talks covering technical topics, personal experiences and hopes for the future.

Overview: This introductory talk will cover cold cracking, solidification cracking and lamellar tearing in carbon steels as an overview to this broad and interesting topic. 

Speaker: Gene Mathers CEng FWeldI

Speaker Biography: Gene has over 40 years industrial experience working in pipeline, power generation, heavy engineering, nuclear and the pressure vessel fabrication industries.  He worked for NEI-International Combustion Ltd. as the company’s Welding and Metallurgy Manager and latterly Quality Manager for some 10 years before joining TWI Ltd in 1991 as Manager, School of Welding Technology.

Since retirement, Gene has provided a welding engineering consultancy service as a private consultant and continues his active involvement with the Welding Institute as Chair of the Welding Processes Technical Group.

Attending this event supports your professional development.  You can claim 2 CPD points per hour for this event.  As a member of the Welding Institute you can record your CPD activity online from your membership portal.

Additional information:

• Registration for this event will close 24 hours before the event starts.
• Live events only