Course Content
This course will explain the basics of corrosion prevention for a number of popular steel products and assist in the choice of the most effective solutions to minimise the risk of failure.
From this course, you will have a general understanding of the approach used to prevent corrosion for that product application. You will also be provided with an overview of the commercially available products in each case, and the basic principles used to design the respective coating systems.
Course Outline
This course is in five parts, a total of 2 hours and 40 minutes and will cover:
Section 1 – Course Outline – Rob Francis
- What is happening when steel corrodes?
- How does steel corrode in the atmosphere?
- What are the factors that determine the severity of atmospheric corrosion?
- How do we minimise corrosion of steel?
Section 2 – Course Outline – Dr Thomas Jurak
- Common applications for steel cladding and sheet products
- How corrosion of steel cladding and sheet products is managed
- How different metallic coatings corrode and why this is relevant
- The key product features and environmental factors that influence the service life of steel cladding and sheet products
- How these fundamentals work in practice, with real-world examples
Section 3 – Course Outline – David Haynes
- ERW Process and Products
- Australian Standards for ERW steel pipe and tube
- Common applications for steel pipe and tube
- Available finishes
- Zinc coated steel products
- Zinc and zinc alloy coating standards
- Protection of steel by zinc coatings
- What is white rust
- How to avoid white rust
- Storage and handling of pipe and tubes
Section 4 – Course Outline – Peter Golding & Rob Francis
- Part 1 (Rob Francis)
- Main coating types for structural steel
- Selection of coating systems
- Technical data sheet
- Part 2 (Peter Golding)
- Introduction and the circular economy
- Process and properties of batch and spin hot dip galvanized steel
- Designing steelwork for the process
- Part 3 (Peter Golding)
- Durability of zinc coatings
- Designing for durability of structures
- Duplex coatings
- 2022 NCC – a major revision
Section 5 – Q and A Session
Dr Thomas Jurak & Rob Francis will answer some questions that were asked during the session