Stress Corrosion Cracking. How to Avoid It?
What is meant by Stress Corrosion Cracking? This is a phenomenon of degradation of a material due to the combined action of corrosion and applying a constant load. What does this mean? The SCC often leads to sudden breaking of metallic materials normally considered ductile that undergo stress in corrosive environment. This especially at high […]
How to Avoid Pitting Corrosion?
The pitting is likely the best known corrosion phenomena in relation to stainless steels. But what causes this phenomenon? And how can you avoid it? Pitting. What are its causes? Pitting is caused by local laceration of the passive layer. But how it originated? This phenomenon arises from the action of strongly activating elements such […]
Stainless Steel and Water and Wastewater Treatments
Can the composition of the water affect the corrosive effect in relation to stainless steel? We want to explain it in our post today. Demineralized water. Is it corrosive for steel? The composition of the water may impact significantly on the corrosive effect compared to stainless steel. Let’s look specifically: What are the effects under […]
The Cold Climate and First Snowfall. Stainless Steel for Salt Trucks.
Winter has come and brings with him the first snowfalls and thus potential danger from ice formation on the roads. The intervention of salt trucks can become necessary, but how are they manufactured? Stainless steel AISI 316 allows to work with any type of material from sand, to salt and grit. The construction of salt […]
Standard EN 1090-2 – Steel Structural Products. PART 2
The second part of our post on EN 1090-2 concerning the execution of steel structures and aluminium. Today we will see more specifically the products identified by the standard. What type of steel structural products? It is necessary that these products conform to the following European norms: 1.1 EN10025 […]
Standard EN 1090-2 – Section 5: The Component Items – PART 1
Today back to the matter in hand of standard EN 1090-2 concerning the Execution of steel structures and aluminium. In particular, we focus on Section 5 which deals with products that add defining the characteristics of metal products used in steel structures. What do the standards say? The type of control document to be provided […]
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Screws With Opaque Head. Is It a Problem?
Today we look at one of the technical questions that we received from our customers. Do the heads of the screws with large diameter have to be polished and opaque? The problem The AISI 316/A4 stainless steel M27x100 samples of screws are delivered to your warehouse. Open the box and the screws are opaque head […]
Maturing of the Beer – Wood or Stainless Steel: Do You Know What’s Better?
The maturing of the beer is one of the fundamental aspects of the process of creating this drink. There are several techniques from innovative ones those close to tradition. Stainless steel tanks. Why use them? The maturation of the beer in wooden barrels is a technique used for centuries then undermined by the arrival of […]
Standard ISO 3506 – The Carbon Content of Stainless Steel
Today we want to talk about standard ISO 3506 – 2009, especially in regards to carbon found in austenitic A4 stainless steel. Standard DIN EN ISO 3506-1:2009 Below is the Table 1, where the chemical compositions of all groups of steel are explained. What we will consider today is the austenitic A4 ones. Here we […]