In response to the Clean Air Act of 1990 the Navy initiated evaluations of candidate replacements for specific military paints. This paper describes the physical and performance testing, per military specification, of three VOC compliant replacement high temperature paints. Through the use of American Society of Testing of Materials standard methods, the paint performance is rated for comparison. Naval applications and problems with the present paint systems are reviewed. The performance of a land based test used to simulate service conditions is discussed.

Based on the results of the evaluation, it is concluded that none of the paints tested met all the requirements of the revised specification. As an interim VOC compliant high temperature coating, it was judged that the TT-P-28 paint reformulated for high solids content and VOC compliance would give the best overall high temperature /corrosion performance. However, baking is still required to attain full hardness and optimum properties. Therefore, it is recommended that additional samples of candidate high temperature paints be procured to find a VOC compliant air drying paint with equivalent/superior corrosion protection characteristics.

Subject
Test methods, Water, Piping, Solids, Mechanical failure, Heat, Salt spray corrosion testing, Rust, Boilers, Corrosion resistance, Cracking, Blistering, Paints
Keywords:
heat resisting paint, high temperature aluminum paint, paint testing, high temperature paint, aluminum paint
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1992
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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