Can anyone shares interesting article on the topic of VOCs emission by marine paint?

I am interested in learning on the topic of VOCs emission by marine coating. I have read some articles which claim that VOCs emission does not only emitted during the initial stage of application,...

08 September 2019 7,005 4 View

What is a suitable pure paint binder with no pigment or additive for marine usage?

Greetings, Currently, I am trying to develop a new paint formulation. I already have in mind on what type of pigment and additive that I want to use. The problem is, I do not have a good idea on...

08 September 2019 7,211 6 View

Does salt precipitation or NaCl crystals attach onto a metal or coating accelerate the process of corrosion or coating degradation?

08 September 2019 612 6 View

Have artificial seawater been used for the application in a metal-based container?

To the best of my knowledge, artificial seawater is usually deployed inside a glass or plastic container such as aquarium. My inquiry is, has it ever been used in a metal based container? The...

07 August 2019 4,179 3 View

How does zinc oxide boost or increase the ionic resistance property of a coating exposed to aggressive solution such as seawater?

Can anyone share some answer on the question? I read some articles which said that it boost the coating property but I also found others which said the opposite i.e., that ZnO caused brittleness...

06 July 2019 8,486 4 View

What is the easiest method to determine VOC content in paint or coating?

Greetings, I am looking for a fast and easy VOC content determination method for a coating. Can anyone suggest what method or tools that can be used?

04 May 2019 3,993 4 View

How to give a super hydrophobic property to the coating?

Greetings, I am interested in developing an eco-friendly anti-corrosive and anti-fouling coating for marine vessel protection. During the development, I come across a few idea such as...

03 April 2019 5,037 7 View

Why does a stagnant artificial seawater is much more corrosive than real seawater?

Greetings, Recently I just finish analyzing the impedance data collected on coatings which has been immersed in a stagnant artificial seawater inside laboratory and in real seawater at the beach...

03 April 2019 472 6 View

What is the meaning of negative value of resistance from EIS study?

During the electrochemical analysis (EIS) of my coating for corrosion performance project, I come across a few negative readings from both coating resistance, Cp and charge transfer resistance,...

01 February 2019 3,313 13 View

What about curing agent and solvent for epoxy resin?

Greetings,I am just searching for some information. In regards to epoxy resin, from my understanding, the epoxy itself does not pose detrimental effects to environment. But, the curing agent...

01 February 2019 7,177 4 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View