Description
Date: 09 July, 2020. Webinar
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
Life Cycle Cost (LCC) evaluations using stainless steels in critical components of bridges consistently shows the benefits of providing operation with very little maintenance over a lifetime exceeding a century.
Stainless steels offer an extremely attractive way of providing structural integrity over unlimited time, as a direct result of their high strength and durability and their excellent corrosion resistance that resists all climates and weather conditions. Whilst the material acquisition costs of stainless steels are higher than competing materials, the massive reduction in lifetime maintenance costs mean that choosing stainless steels becomes the significantly lower cost option over the service life. Furthermore, the reduction in CO2 emissions by avoiding standing traffic during bridge maintenance regimes is another compelling benefit. Building bridges using stainless steels means building safe bridges for generations.
At the end of this steeltalk, participants will be able to:
- Analyze the role of stainless steel in sustainable infrastructure development.
- Evaluate the impact of material selection on long-term maintenance and lifecycle costs.
- Apply principles of corrosion resistance to engineering design choices.
- Assess the contribution of stainless steel to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 9.
Speaker Introduction
|
|
Tim was born and grew up in the home of UK stainless steelmaking, Sheffield. Whilst at school he worked part-time for his father making steelworks thermocouples and laboratory furnaces. After leaving school he studied metallurgy at university and joined British Steel Stainless immediately after graduating. A succession of industry mergers saw Tim undertaking senior stainless technical, operations and supply chain roles in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK before joining the ISSF (now worldstainless) in August 2019. During his career Tim also found time to study Goldratt’s teaching on lean flow and operations, gain a postgraduate diploma in operations and inventory management and a masters degree in business administration. Away from work Tim still supports his boyhood football club, Sheffield Wednesday and enjoys rock music, cycling, fine wines and craft ales. |
Course Content
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
