Service Life Prediction

PART 1: ADVANCES IN FIELD EXPOSURE EXPERIMENTS; 1. Repeatability and Reproducibility of Field Exposure Results; 2. Surface Moisture and Time of Wetness Measurements; 3. Overview of Exposure Angle Considerations for Service Life Prediction; 4. Fractional Factorial Approaches to Emmaqua Experiments; 5. Data Management and a Spectral Solar UV Network; PART 2: ADVANCES IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTATION; 6. Use of Uniformly Distributed Concentrated Sunlight for Highly Accelerated Testing of Coatings; 7. Laboratory Apparatus and Cumulative Damage Model for Linking Field and Laboratory Exposure Results; 8. Integrating Sphere Sources for UV Exposure: A Novel Approach to the Artificial UV Weatherings of Coatings, Plastics and Composites; PART 3: ADVANCES IN ANALYTICAL MEASUREMENTS; 9. The Role of Fundamental Mechanistic Studies in Practical Service Life Prediction; 10. Chemical Depth Profiling of Automotive Coating Systems Using IR, UV-VIS, and HPLC Methods; 11. A Brief Review of Paint Weathering Research at Ford; 12. Permanence of UV Absorbers in Plastics and Coatings; 13. Mechanical Properties of Painted TPO Plastic Resulting from Morphological Interphase Variations; 14. Determining the Particle Size Distributions of Titanium Dioxide Using Sedimentation Field-Flow Fractionation and Photon Correlation Spectroscopy; 15. Characterization of Physical and Chemical Deterioration of Polymeric Bridge Coatings; 16. Fundamentals of the Measurement of Corrosion Protection and the Prediction of Its Lifetime in Organic Coatings; 17. Modeling and Laboratory Simulation of Grain Cracking of Latex Paints Applied to Exterior Wood Substrates; 18. The Effect of Weathering on the Fracture Resistance of Clearcoats; PART 4: MATHEMATICAL MODEL; 19. Using Accelerated Tests to Predict Service Life in Highly Variable Environments; 20. Computer Programs for Nearly Real-Time Estimation of Photolytic and Hydrolytic Degradation in Thin Transparent Films; 21. A First Step toward Photorealisatic Rendering of Coated Surfaces and Computer-Based Standards of Appearance; 22. Computer Simulations of the Conformational Preference of 3'Substituents in 2-(2'Hydroxyphenyl) Benzotriazole UV Absorbers: Correlation with UVA Photopermanence in Coatings; 23. The Pulsing of Free-Amine during Polymer Hydrolysis; 24. Summing Up: Where We Are Now; Next Steps to Take