AFRL Perseverance Testing History, Coatings

According to an article published by the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, testing completed on the NASA Perseverance's protective coating at the WPAF Research Lab aided the rover’s touchdown...

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Spillway Design Tested by CSU Engineers

Last week, civil engineers at Colorado State University were reported to be testing an experimental spillway intended for Gross Dam located in southwest Boulder County, Colorado.

Assessing ‘arc’: Is it a Win?

by Robert J. Kobet, AIA

Before I get into the discussion of the U.S. Green Building Council’s new technology ...

Checklist for Evaluating Stone Durability

by Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.

Stone, in general, is considered a durable material; however, not all stones are as d...

In a Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) 50-year-old experiment involving an epoxy resin and steel reinforcements on concrete, engineers found that after 50 years under 87% of the average breaking load, the epoxy resin bonding showed:

In the protective coatings industry, qualitative fit testing of respirators introduces what material near the wearer of an air-purifying or supplied-air respirator with cartridge filter to determine by smell?

At the beginning of September, it was reported that a panel of independent experts approved a $100 million fix for the sinking and tilting 58-story Millennium Tower in San Francisco. Do you think the installation of 52 new piles, extending twice the distance into the bedrock of the north and west sides will prove to reduce future sinking and improve the structure’s seismic performance?

What tests and criteria can a coatings user specify to assure consistent lot-to-lot performance of supplied coatings?

What tests and criteria can a coatings user specify to assure consistent lot-to-lot performance of supplied coatings?

Bridge Painting: Progress Through Community

from JPCL, July 2019 ; by Robert Kogler, Rampart LLC

Bob Kogler, a coating professional for the past three decades who has worked extensiv...

The Effect of Feathering on Coating Performance

from JPCL, June 2019 ; by Patrick Cassidy and Michael Kibler, Elzly Technology Corporation; and Cameron Miller, Paul Slebodnick and James Martin, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Feedback from waterfront personnel performing maintenance painting for the U.S. Navy ...

Laboratory Test Methods For Qualifying Coatings For Atmospheric Industrial Service

Attendees are eligible to receive AIA LU.

This webinar will present the factors that need to be considered in developing performance requirements for coatin...

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Building Innovation 2014

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Architectural Coatings: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on architectural coatings.

Concrete: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on concrete coatings and maintenance.

Standard Test Method for Adhesion of Organic Coatings by Scrape Adhesion

issued by ASTM

4.1 Coatings to perform satisfactorily must adhere to the substrates on which they are applied....

SSPC-PA 15, Method for Preparing Steel Test Panels for Evaluation of Coating Performance

issued by SSPC

This method standardizes materials and preparation requirements for steel test panels used for ...

SSPC-PA 16, Method for Evaluating Scribe Undercutting of Exposed Steel Test Panels

issued by SSPC

The standard establishes a procedure for evaluating rust undercutting on scribed coated steel t...