Today, fastening articles such as screws and nails are treated with different surface coatings to withstand corrosion. The Swedish distributor ESSVE® Produkter AB uses a nano coating called CorrSeal™ for high corrosion protection of their screws. Thermal diffusion galvanization (TDG) is a more environmentally friendly method that the company seeks to use as replacement for the current treatment. This process of zinc diffusion is carried out at around 400 °C for several hours. The aim of the project is to investigate the possibility to surface treat a wood screw using TDG. The elevated temperature is suspected to decrease the hardness of the hardened screw. Therefore, a hardened and tempered screw without surface treatment is sent to a TDG facility. Industrial furnaces are used for similar heat treatments of screws with different hardenings. Both processes are analyzed by evaluating the results of hardness, bending, and microscopy. No immediate correlation between the TDG process and heat treatment in the industrial furnaces is found. Results show that the tested screws softened to a higher degree in the TDG process compared to treatment in the industrial furnaces. The mechanical properties of the tested screws, after the TDG process, are not acceptable. The zinc layer thickness on the screws is uneven yet believed to meet the required demands on corrosion resistance. Results also show that incorporating the TDG process in the tempering step is essential to meet the demands on hardness. Additionally, changing the composition of the material can lead to higher resistance against softening at the elevated temperatures. Further research is however needed to present a screw with sufficient corrosion resistance from the TDG process that will meet the demandson hardness and bending.

Failures of high mast illumination poles (HMIP) around the US have raised the concerns of officials because of their location close to areas with important human activity. Previous research, conducted at the University of Texas proved that those failures were fatigue type failures and that cracking initiated at the shaft to baseplate connection, specifically at the bends of the shaft. However, no research has been conducted on the remaining fatigue life of poles after they have been in service. This thesis investigates the remaining fatigue life of a pole, removed from service after severe cracking has been observed on it, via laboratory testing. Moreover, nondestructive and destructive testing procedures were implemented to investigate the initiation and evolution of fatigue cracks. The results validated the procedures for the in-situ validation of the remaining fatigue life of those poles. Last, the destructive test results enhanced the arguments that initial cracking at the toe of the weld at the shaft to baseplate connection is a result of the galvanizing process. / text

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