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

Do you know how to calculate VOC in coating according to this formula?

The data obtained are as follows: W1 = 1.0 g W2 = 8.0 g SA = 10.0 g The formula as in below: Please help me.. I think I should get under 30% from the calculation..

05 June 2019 5,753 3 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

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

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 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

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View