NACE Member Charles B. Masin has been training Indian personnel in specialized protective coating applications and inspection procedures on the Bhakra Dam, one of the world’s largest concrete dams. The structure now is nearing completion in the Himalayan foothills of the Punjab on a tributary of the Indus River.
On the Bhakra Dam, hot coal-tar enamel is being applied to the interior of five 15-foot diameter steel penstock. An indigenous hot coar-tar enamel is being service tested in several river outlet pipes. Trashracks have been coated by dipping in hot coal-tar pitch. Gates and other ferrous metalwork are being given cold applied protective coating systems.
Mr. Masin was employed in April, 1959, by the Indian Government as supervisor of painting and coal-tar enameling on the dam project. Formerly he was associated with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as materials engineer on protective coatings for dams, power plants and irrigation structures....
