... success on an industrial scale for many decades, hot-dip galvanizing is a ubiquitous process. On occasion, cracks in steel members develop during galvanizing. While such cracking remains a poorly understood phenomenon, previous research has attributed the formation of cracks to the combined effects...

..., respectively, and a total number of 500 and 2000 thermal fatigue cycles. The experimental results have demonstrated that the simulator is capable of producing thermal fatigue cracks with the same characteristics of those seen in real industrial hot-working tools. Based on their size and the extent...