High Speed Zinc Phosphating of Galvanized Steel

Bacterial phosphating of mild (unalloyed) steel.

Mild (unalloyed) steel electrodes were incubated in phosphate-buffered cultures of aerobic, biofilm-forming Rhodococcus sp. strain C125 and Pseudomonas putida mt2. A resulting surface reaction leading to the formation of a corrosion-inhibiting vivianite layer was accompanied by a characteristic electrochemical potential (E) curve. First, E increased slightly due to the interaction of phosphate ...

Corrosion of Galvanized Steel in Soils

The results of measurements of the corrosion of galvanized steel and of bare steel and zinc as reference materials after exposure to different soil conditions for a maximum of 13 years are reported. The magnitude and progress of corrosion of galvanized steel as determined by weight loss and pitting is interpreted in terms of the environmental conditions to which the specimens were exposed. From...

Determination of the Forming Limit Diagram of Zinc Electro-galvanized Steel Sheets

Forming limit curves (FLC) of deep drawing steel sheets have been determined experimentally and calculated on the base of the material tensile properties following the Hill, Swift, Marciniak-Kuczyński and Sing-Rao methods. Only the FLC modeled from a singly linear forming limit stress curve exhibits good consistence with experimental curve. It was established that a linearized limit stress locu...

Atmospheric Corrosion of Galvanized Steel and Precipitation Runoff from Zinc in a Marine Environment

Este estudo focaliza o comportamento do aço galvanizado em um ambiente marinho corrosivo e no processo de escoamento superficial para o mesmo material que ocorrem em Valparaíso, Chile. O potencial de corrosão e a taxa de corrosão avaliados através de perda de massa foram utilizados para determinar os danos da corrosão para o aço galvanizado. As composições dos produtos de corrosão foram determi...

Mitigating Zinc Vapor Induced Weld Defects in Laser Welding of Galvanized High-Strength Steel by Using Different Supplementary Means