Keeping the Thames at bay with Monel alloys

Abstract

When the engineers at the Thames Barrier control building decide the long‐awaited dangerous high tidal surge is imminent and start operations to close the barrier across the river, the gates must shut. There can be no question of component failures caused by corrosion from the river water. By then the trunnion shafts supporting the gates may have been immersed in the river for many years — a situation posing a corrosion hazard for items such as the stressed bolting fixing them to the support structures concreted into the piers.

Citation

(1979), "Keeping the Thames at bay with Monel alloys", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 26 No. 9, pp. 13-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb007117