Evaluating the corrosion risk of fasteners
01 August 2016
BRIAN MACK, technical business development manager at EJOT’s AppliTEC Centre, highlights how to tackle fastener corrosion.
A key aspect, all too easily overlooked when specifying the right fastener for a specific application, should be the corrosion risk created between the fastener material and the application’s unique properties.
It is a fact that different metals corrode at different rates regardless of how ‘safe’ it appears to begin with. Fasteners are no different and there are two key influences specifiers should be aware of. EJOT has conducted a study dealing with the metal to metal relationship of the fixing in its applied environment, and also the natural life cycle of the fastener’s own composition.Bimetallic corrosion
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