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Coating Assessment

Overcoating: Maintenance or Mayhem?

Whether a bridge, tank, pipeline, vessel, manufacturing facility, architectural structure or amusement park ride, at some point there will be a need for maintenance painting. ...
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Coating Failure

Oops, Wrong Paint!

What Can Happen When the Service Environment Isn’t Characterized or the Wrong Coating is Selected Fig. 1: This tank lining showed insufficient resistance to the ...
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Buildings

Tools and Techniques for Measuring Coating Quality- Part 2, Moisture Detection

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series describing the instrumentation used to inspect the quality of cleaning and painting.  Part 1 described the instruments ...
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Buildings

But I Can’t Wait 3 Days

No time for standard concrete slab moisture evaluations? Try these accelerated methods. Let’s face it; we live in an age where instant results matter. Assessing ...
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Buildings

Tools and Techniques for Measuring Coating Quality- Part 1, Cleaning and Painting

When you spend money on a product or service, you expect quality, regardless of the cost.  If you purchase the most inexpensive Chevrolet that is ...
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Maintenance Painting Practices for Offshore Oil and Gas Structures
Coating Assessment

Maintenance Painting Practices for Offshore Oil & Gas Structures: Part One

Offshore oil and gas structures, typically floating production, storage and offloading vessels, or FPSO, and the more conventional fixed platforms, are usually very complex assemblies ...
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Thank you for your response. You will continue receiving high quality, expert driven educational materials from KTA University! If you have any questions about our ...
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Coating Assessment

KTA Video Learning Series Corrosion Assessment

Corrosion Assessment: This video, narrated by KTA’s Vice President Bill Corbett, covers corrosion assessment for the paint and coatings industry. We hope you gain some ...
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Testing Concrete for Moisture
Coating Standards

Concrete Moisture Testing Video

Concrete Moisture Testing: This video, narrated by KTA President Ken Trimber, regards concrete moisture testing tools and techniques for the paint and coatings industry. We ...
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