Coatings

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  Industries

  Coatings for Marine Applications & Offshore Platforms

  While offering new anticorrosion coatings for marine and offshore applications, manufacturers are under consistent pressure due to stricter environmental regulations, as...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu

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  Surface Preparation

  We Might Be Defining Proper Surface Profiles Wrong (Part 2)

  Wenzel’s theory helps us to understand that surface roughness and coating adhesion are not always related to each other in a unique fashion. In other words,...

  By: Shiwei William Guan, Ph.D.

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  Surface Preparation

  We Might Be Defining Proper Surface Profiles Wrong (Part 1)

  I have often been asked this question: “Which testing method do you prefer to use to check an abrasive blasted steel surface profile for coating: Testex replica...

  By: Shiwei William Guan, Ph.D.

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  Failure

  Emergency In-Situ Repair Problems & Surface-Tolerant Solutions

  One of the major challenges faced by maintenance engineers across many industries is the limited amount of time in which urgent repairs must be carried out. In the real...

  By: Levente Bazsanyi | Product Manager

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  Coatings

  The Science of Anti-Corrosion Thin Films

  Nanocoatings are defined as the nanostructures with thickness in the nanometer scale. Generally, thin film builds are required to have a thickness in a range of a micron...

  By: Sadeq Hooshmand Zaferai, MSc

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Polyurea Coating Spotlight with Kyle Flanagan

  Past President of the Polyurea Development Association (PDA), Kyle Flanagan, is a coatings and polyurea chemist and entrepreneur based in California. His company,...

  By: Kyle Flanagan, B.S. | Technical Director, Freedom Chemical Corporation

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  Substances

  An Overview of Alkyd Resins

  Editor's Note:The following is an excerpt from Kenneth B. Tator's Alkyd Resins article featured in ASM Handbook, Volume 5B: Protective Organic Coatings. The full...

  By: Kenneth B. Tator, P.E | Chairman of the Board, KTA-Tator,

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  Corrosion Failure

  Stopping Rust in Bolted Systems

  The fate of a complex steel assembly may be determined by the vulnerability of its smallest and least considered components. The bolts or fasteners holding the assembly...

  By: Tim Davison

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  Soluble Salts

  The Effects of Salt Contamination on Coating Performance

  The effect of soluble salt contamination on a substrate has been hugely controversial for decades. This controversy is mainly due to several factors that determine if...

  By: Mohamed Adel Mohamadein | Head of the Corrosion, Arab Petroleum Pipelines

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  Corrosion Prevention

  An Intro to the Duplex System for Corrosion Protection

  Protecting metals from the damaging effects of corrosion is usually achieved with the application of powder coating, paint or hot-dip galvanizing. However, due to the...

  By: Corrosionpedia Staff

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  Prevention

  Nitriding for Corrosion and Wear Fatigue Resistance

  The main aim of surface engineering is to improve the superficial mechanical properties of materials while the bulk properties—such as mechanical strength, impact...

  By: Mehdi Yari | Electrochemistry and Corrosion Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario

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  Prevention

  Combating Cavitative Corrosion and Erosive Corrosion

  Cavitation takes place in a fluid system when the local fluid pressure in any region falls below the fluid’s characteristic vapor pressure, resulting in the...

  By: Shivananda Prabhu