KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum Issue No. 2 – June 2022 KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum is designed to provide continuing education on standards, inspection
KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum Issue No. 4 KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum is designed to provide professional development/continuing education on standards, inspection practices, new
Anode, cathode, metallic pathway, electrolyte – these are the four components of a corrosion circuit. Eliminate one of them, and you will have successfully mitigated
IntroductionThere are a wide range of immersion environments where protective coatings (liquid or powder), sheet materials, or rubber linings may be expected to protect an
KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum Issue No. 1 – May 2022 KTA’s Certified Coating Inspector Forum is designed to provide continuing education on standards, inspection
Emissivity and Its Application in the Coatings Inspection Industry Dominic Pasquarelli and William Corbett, PCS Introduction Coating inspectors, engineers and others use a variety of
You see it every day. Graffiti, whether lettering or images, is everywhere: fences, overpasses, structures, train cars. What’s the big deal? To the law-abiding taxpayer,
Introduction When it comes to qualifying coating systems for use in real world applications, there are many quality programs and specifications that can be considered.
Overspray and Dry Fall Coatings Dry fall coatings (also known as dry fog coatings) are spray-applied protective and/or decorative paints specifically designed to minimize attachment
Surface preparation and painting the interior of tank structures is sometimes viewed as one of the more easily completed industrial painting endeavors. While it
Common methods of maintenance painting have either involved complete removal of existing paint (for example preparing to an SSPC-SP 10 / NACE No. 2, “Near-White
Feedback from waterfront personnel performing maintenance painting for the U.S. Navy has consistently questioned the Navy’s requirement for performing feathering. NAVSEA Standard Item (NSI) 009-321 defines feathering
Whether we choose to recognize it or not, every company has a safety culture that continuously changes, and even rebrands itself from time to time.
The National Transportation Product Evaluation Program (NTPEP) is a public-private partnership that prevents duplication of efforts among the 52 state departments of transportation. NTPEP provides
The Saint Lawrence Seaway is a series of locks, canals and navigable channels that allow oceangoing vessels to travel from the Great Lakes to the
My wife thinks that my driving skills are poor. She is not entirely wrong in this opinion. Whenever I am on a long drive or
Prediction of service life for naturally exposed coatings remains problematic. A number of factors can have an effect on coating performance, but none more so
Blistering is a common coating failure, and for many years, the causes and mechanisms of blistering have been studied to characterize and determine the effects
The Natchez-Vidalia Westbound Bridge is a 4,205-foot-long through-truss structure that was built in 1940 and carries U.S. 84 westbound over the Mississippi River from Natchez,
Background Most of the SSPC surface preparation standards focus on the preparation of steel, either by abrasive blast cleaning (dry and wet), power tool cleaning,
