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High Performance Organic Coatings: Selection, Application and Evaluation by Anand S Khanna; Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is High Performance Organic Coatings: Selection, Application and Evaluation about?

Paint coatings remain the most widely used way of protecting steel structures from corrosion. This important book reviews the range of organic paint coatings and how their performance can be enhanced to provide effective and lasting protection. The book begins by reviewing key factors affecting the success of a coating, including surface preparation, methods of application, selecting an appropriate paint and testing its effectiveness. It also discusses why coatings fail, including how they degrade, and what can be done to prevent these problems. Part two describes the main types of coating and how their performance can be enhanced, including epoxies, polyester, glass flake, fluoropolymer, polysiloxane and waterborne coatings. The final part of the book looks at applications of high-performance organic coatings in such areas as reinforced concrete, pipelines, marine and automotive engineering. With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, High-performance organic coatings will be a valuable reference for all those concerned with preventing corrosion in steel and other metal structures.

Who reads High Performance Organic Coatings: Selection, Application and Evaluation?

Author

Anand S Khanna; Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining

Publisher

Woodhead Publishing Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845692650

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Language Learning