| Abstract Scope |
To protect parts and structures operating in corrosive environments, zinc coatings obtained under SHS conditions are widely used. Topics of special interest include the effects of these processes on the development of steel microstructures and consequent effects on properties, internal and external oxidation phenomena occuring during processing including effects on development of the zinc coating, advances in zinc coating control.In this paper a new method of zinc coating control - effective reference (ECP-Zn), ECP-Zn was defined for zinc coatings obtained under SHS conditions, which were compared to hot-dip galvanized, electroplated and thermodiffusion zinc coatings. Zinc coatings including G-phase with continuous cubic lattice, δ-phase (FeZn7) with hexagonal lattice, zinc oxides, and ξ-phase (FeZn13) were compared. |