Corrosion Control Through Organic Coatings discusses the most important variables in the testing, selection, and application of heavy-duty, organic corrosion-protection paints.

Features:

• Provides rapid access to coating types, pretreatments, corrosion tests, laboratory techniques, and disposal issues in a singe, concise reference book
• Contains up-to-date and accurate information on the composition, protection mechanisms, and aging mechanisms of various coatings
• Details effective techniques for removing lead-based paints from older steel structures
• Reviews a wide range of pretreatments including wet and dry abrasive blasting, hydrojetting, stabilizers, fillers, and other unconventional techniques such as dry ice and lasers
• Highlights advanced analytical techniques, accelerated aging methods and the salt spray test used for corrosion testing
• Addresses waterborne paints and their reaction with zinc-coated substrates, which is an increasingly popular choice in industrial and infrastructure applications

Contents

Composition of the Anticorrosion Coating

• Coating Composition Design
• Binder Types
• Corrosion-Protective Pigments

Waterborne Coatings

• Technologies for Polymers in Water
• Water versus Organic Solvents
• Latex Film Formation
• Minimum Film Formation Temperature
• Flash Rusting

Blast Cleaning and the Other Heavy Surface Pretreatment

• Introduction to Blast Cleaning
• Dry Abrasive Blasting
• Wet Abrasive Blasting and Hydrojetting
• Unconventional Blasting Methods
• Testing for Contaminants after Blasting
• Dangerous Dust: Silicosis and Free Silica

Abrasive Blasting and Heavy-Metal Contamination

• Detecting Contamination
• Minimizing the Volume of Hazardous Debris
• Methods for Stabilizing Lead
• Debris as Filler in Concrete
• Other Filler Uses

Weathering and Aging of Paint

• UV Breakdown
• Moisture
• Temperature
• Chemical Degradation

Corrosion Testing - Background and Theoretical Considerations

• The Goal of Accelerated Testing
• What Factors Should Be Accelerated?
• Why There is no Single Perfect Test

Corrosion Testing - Practice

• Some Recommended Accelerated Aging Methods
• Evaluation after Accelerated Aging
• Calculating Amount of Acceleration and Correlations
• Salt Spray Test

Index

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