I have a customer that wants to connect a T304 electropolished stainless steel plate to an embedded carbon steel bushing. This will be near a pool so will regularly be exposed to pool water. I'm wondering how to design the connection to avoid galvanic corrosion.
Say you have a bolt going through an unthreaded hole in a plate, then into a second plate with a hole that is threaded. You are trying to hold the two plates together with this connection. Is the bolt being stretched at all to create a preload or clamping force? If not then what is keeping these...
I have a small stainless steel structure that will be anchored into a brick and mortar deck using a flange and bolt application.
This is something I've done before with a solid concrete deck, but my concern with a brick deck is that the bolt may cause the brick to crack and splinter, rendering...