Sustainable and environmentally friendly zinc coatings for protecting steel bridges in Europe
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
M. C. van Leeuwen
(International Zinc Association, Brussels, Belgium)
P. M. Gangé (International Zinc Association, Durham, NC, USA) B. Duran (International Zinc Association, Durham, NC, USA) F. Prenger (Grillo-Werke, Duisburg, Germany) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs, Ghent, Belgium, 22-24 September 2021 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Ghent 2021 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 133-140 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/ghent.2021.0133 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Metallic zinc coatings are well established as cost-effective corrosion protection for steel bridges. The zinc coating acts first as barrier protection, isolating the base steel from corrosive elements, and secondly by cathodic protection, acting as a sacrificial anode to protect the steel should the coating be compromised. Bridge operators can be confronted by disproportional high maintenance costs for bridges in use as removal of (in)organic paint systems with hazardous and toxic compounds require expensive waste disposal and environmental protection measures. Metallic zinc coatings are recognized as environmentally friendly, sustainable, and low maintenance, providing the lowest life cycle cost corrosion protection. Various case studies with bridges protected with metallic zinc coatings in and outside Europe are illustrated. |
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| Keywords: |
sustainability durability corrosion zinc hot dip galvanizing Thermal sprayed zinc Zinc-rich paint
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| Copyright: | © 2021 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) | ||||
| License: | This creative work is copyrighted material and may not be used without explicit approval by the author and/or copyright owner. |
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