Products tagged with '2003 Conference Papers'

A cyclic salt-fog test was used to characterize the corrosion control of various aluminum foil coatings on rusted steel. In the maintenance of minimally prepared steel in a marine atmosphere, a properly designed coating system, containing an aluminum foil layer, would be expected to be significantly more durable than a traditional liquid applied coating.

In ship's ballast tanks, most of coating failures (and corrosion attacks) were observed on sharp steel edges, welds seams and weld spatters. One solution is to employ high solid coating material with less tendency to flow away from edges. In this study, two coatings  are selected and evaluated in terms of their edge retention ability.

A joint industry project "Corrosion protection and maintenance of bolting and fasteners" was initiated in 2001. The main part of the project is a 10 year testing program of pretensioned stud bolts in the marine atmospheric zone, splash zone and submerged zone in Norway and in the US.