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What are the anticorrosion methods for steel structure bridges?

Steel structure bridges are not only widely used on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also widely used on land. The steel structure bridge becomes the air road, which brings great convenience to the traffic. We all know that steel structures are easy to corrode and rust when exposed to the air all year round. Anticorrosion of steel structure bridge is an important process. So, what are the corrosion protection methods for steel structure bridges?            

Coating protection: coating mainly refers to coating, epoxy FRP sheath and other organic or inorganic coating. This is a relatively effective method to prevent the corrosion in the air and splash area of steel piles (appropriate coating is adopted according to different environmental conditions), but the anti-corrosion effect of the underwater part of steel piles is not good.            

Cathodic protection: from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. The cathodic protection technology has been widely and successfully applied to the underwater protection of steel piles in the world. Cathodic protection is an effective anti-corrosion scheme, which can prevent local corrosion and overall corrosion caused by uneven surface state of various steels. It can also improve the fatigue strength limit of steel piles in seawater. Regardless of the different surface conditions of steel piles, they are very suitable for new or existing steel piles. The protection effect can also be controlled by directly detecting the cathodic polarization potential of the steel surface. If designed and managed properly, the protection effect can reach more than 90%.            

Coating plus cathodic protection: the coating is matched with cathodic protection and can complement each other. So the protection effect is better. For the steel surface with inherent coating, the required protection current density is small, and the protection potential tends to be uniform, which can reduce the corrosion that cathodic protection measures cannot keep up with at the initial stage of construction.            

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