1 INTRODUCTION The origins of galvanized steel date back to the 18th century with the reports of iron coating with molten zinc by Paul Malouin, and of the electrochemical process between metals by Luigi Galvani.[1] By the beginning of the 19th century, batch-galvanized zinc-coated steel was being used as construction material.[2] The utilization of galvanized steel dramatically increased in the 1920s and 1930s due to the eruption of continuous hot strip rolling mills that served the needs of...
