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samedi 29 novembre 2014

F1554 Bolts Have Become An Industry Standard

By Ida Dorsey


Every project has many of its own peculiarities. The F1554 was first introduced in the early nineteen nineties. It covers all anchor bolts that were intended for structural supports to all foundations made with concrete. They can either be headed bolts, bent anchor bolts or straight rods.

This type of bolt is still fairly new and was made by the American society for testing and materials. They cover all steel anchor bolts that are intended to keep all structural supports in place where concrete is used as the foundation. At Portland bolt these bolts are ready to be shipped out at a moment's notice. All galvanised bolts can be changed to the plain finish ones when they are needed promptly.

The Hex bolt is the most commonly used when needed for construction. They have a six sided head and are used for fastening steel and wood as well as for highway structures and docks. The normal products that are produced for any highway include guardrail bolts, barrier pins, traffic pole anchors, light anchor bolts as well as bridge rail anchor bolts and sign structure bolts.

This company perform all mechanical, hardness as well as revolving capacity testing in- house, and provide only products that are 100% fully traceable. They also give a very complete and precise certification packages which they store electronically. This makes sending out any extra copies very quick and easy.

There are even bolts that are dipped in galvanised steel. This means that the steel or iron has gone through a chemical procedure that will help prevent it from rusting. The steel will be coated in a few layers of zinc as rust cannot damage this kind of defensive metal. The general purpose of this is that excess zinc will be left in the threads thus helping to prevent the nut from threading onto the fastener.

Portland Bolt is the leading anchor bolt and construction fastener manufacturers in North America and was founded in 1912 by J Llewellyn. By 1916 there were fifteen employees and they were producing an annual sales of over $100 000. When they first started out their main products were bolts, washers, dies, rivets as well as pole pins and different tools for machine shops.

Before this process can begin the bolts need to be prepared and cleaned. All of them are first wheelabrated which is the use of certain steel abrasives, so that all hot forging scales will be removed. They will then be dunked into a solution of caustic soda which will remove all organic materials. The next dunking will be in sulphuric acid as this helps with the zinc to infiltrate the top layer. The last phase is that they are flooded in a flux solution so that the zinc will respond to the steel.

The bolts are made of carbon, carbon boron and alloy and are made in three separate strength grades and two thread classes. They are all tested for their tensile strength, yield strength as well as stress areas. They all must stick to specific chemical compositions and are examined by heat and product analysis.




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