What is required

• Consider that you are a senior consulting engineer and that you need to explain the topic of Galvanising to your customer, who is the managing director of a large company, and a commerce or law graduate.

• Provide a briefing paper, so that it is easily understood by such a customer, about 20 typed pages in length, ~8,000 words, and including 10 to 20 figures.

• You have wide latitude of how to structure your briefing paper.

• One approach is to include some or all of the following.

(i) Introduction - (what is Galvanising? why is it done? why is it important? where does galvanising fit into possible corrosion protection strategies?)

(ii) History

(iii) Theory

(iv) Different types of zinc coating

(v) Hot dip galvanising (describe the process, coating metallurgy, performance, advantages, design considerations)

(vi) Describe alterative Zinc coating processes, advantages & disadvantages,

(vii) Welding

(viii) Applications in construction industry, autos

(ix) Life cycle costs

(x) Environmental considerations

(xi) Hazards & risks

(xii) Corrosion behaviour of zinc coatings

(xiii) Alternatives to galvanising & their advantages and disadvantages.