Steel Bridges

Ethyl silicate binders are mainly used in applications involving high temperatures and corrosive influences. The principal application of ethyl silicate zinc dust coatings is the protection of iron and steel against corrosion it is effective even at temperatures of up to 400 C. Examples include ships, harbor construction work, bridges, steel structures exposed to atmospheres in industrial areas, tanks, containers, pipelines, and chimneys. 

Steel towers support the steel cables that hold the bridge. Steel is iron to which some carbon has been added. An iron atom lies between two carbon-based rings in a ferrocene molecule. 

Two examples of such suspension-bridge steel-tower designs are the typical, rectangular steel towers of the two Delaware Memorial Bridges the first bridge was built in 1951, and the parallel bridge was built in 1968 (Figure 3.15). 

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Red lead is used almost exclusively for corrosion-inhibiting metal primers, especially on large stmctures, such as bridges, steel tanks, and stmctural steel. Since this bright orange pigment has poor opacity, it is sometimes combined with red iron oxide for improved opacity and low cost. Because of restrictions on the use of lead, red lead is being phased out. 

The method has been utilized for stress investigation in bridges and other steel structures to determine production stresses or stresses originating from body weight, etc. [1 - 4]... 

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G lv nic Corrosion. Galvanic corrosion is an electrochemical process with four fundamental requirements (/) an anode (magnesium), 2) a cathode (steel, brass, or graphite component), (J) direct anode to cathode electrical contact, and (4) an electrolyte bridge at the anode and cathode interface, eg, salt water bridging the adjacent surfaces of steel and magnesium components. If any one of these is lacking, the process does not occur (133,134). 

J. D. Cosdow and R. D. Tipper, eds.. Marine Biodeterioration A.n Interdisciplinary Study Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 1984. C. H. Hare, The Painting of Steel Bridges, Reiclihold, New York, 1988. 

Because of the steep pitch required, slides are limited in application. They are most commonly used to bridge the gap between roller-conveyor systems on two floors, because the roller conveyor can take the container off the slide rapidly and ehminate or reduce the chance for collisions. Slides may also be used when containers can be chuted from an upper floor to a manually loaded carrier. The use of several rollers at the feed point is recommended for easy dehveiy to the sloping section. If the drop is short and containers light, a roller cleanout will prevent backup of containers on the slide. The slope of gravity slides is a function of container weight, size, and friction characteristics and should be selected with care to be sure that containers do not move either too swiftly or not at all. Slides usually use flat steel sheet. 

Fig. 1.5. A typical twentieth-century mild-steel bridge a convenient crossing to the Fort St George in...

Many steel structures - like bridges, storage tanks, and ships - are held together by welds. And when incidents arise from fast fractures or fatigue failures they can often be traced to weaknesses in the welds. The sinking of the Alexander Keilland oil platform in 1980 is an example. 

Smithells Metals Referenee Book, 7th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992 (for data on steels). British Standards Institution, BS 5400,1980 Steel, Conerete and Composite Bridges. Part 10 Code of Praetiee for Fatigue. 

The railway lines on bridges are often electrically connected with steel or reinforced steel structures which usually have a very low grounding resistance. In new installations, an electrical separation of the rails from the bridge structure is required according to the grounding resistance of the structure and the type of rail bed. Independent of this, pipelines and metal sheathing of cables are always electrically separated from the structure in order to exclude direct transmission of stray current from the rails in these conductors. 

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