Standards for Salt Corrosion Protection for Exposed Steel

[allgoodnamestaken]

Hi all,

I've been given a relatively simple project involving the design of a platform on which a 30' tall 16' diameter silo is going to stand. Trucks will be driving through the platform legs and a pneumatic system will allow them to actuate the silo discharge door to fill up.

The problem is that the product in the silo is road salt. I'm making the assumption that spills will happen and the steel platform will be in a relatively aggressive environment. There is no water near the site but the area is subject to heavy snows and that is when the use of road salt is most frequent.

I'm looking for some standards or examples on specifications for specifying paint or galvanization for the steel platform and its connections with the concrete foundation below.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[TomDOT]

If you call out surface preparation to one of the common SSPC/NACE blasting standards, it covers flash rusting. The surface is required to still meet the standard when paint is being applied, not just "hey we cleaned it earlier" - something like SSPC SP-10.