Wednesday 19 November 2014

Get Your Concrete Secured With F1554 Bolts

By Ida Dorsey


Having the right tools always makes a positive difference. The F1554 is an anchor bolt that can either be threaded from top to bottom or alternatively on each end. This helps to prevent the bolt from being pulled out and is normally welded with a nut or a plate at the bottom of a rod. Those that are fully threaded are normally used with an epoxy in any already usable concrete slab.

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 grading of the 36 is that it has low carbon with a ksi yield steel anchor. The 55 has a high strength capacity with low alloy and the 105 is heat treated and of alloy, also with high strength capacity. Supplementary testing will only be done when specifically asked when purchased.

For all marine projects these bolts need to be hot dipped in galvanised or stainless steel. This helps to prevent corrosion and ensures that their strength is intact. Stainless steel in also known as inox steel and has some chromium content added. It does not generally stain with water but this can happen in low oxygen, poor air circulation and high salinity areas.

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.

Galvanising is a way of applying a zinc coating to the steel, aluminium or iron as a means of preventing rust from happening. The commonly used method is hot dip where they are immersed in a bath of molten zinc. The temperature will be as high as 460 degrees Celsius and when they are exposed to the air the zinc will respond to the oxygen. It will then form a zinc oxide which will further react with the carbon dioxide where it will form zinc carbonate.

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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