Service life prediction : methodology and metrologies

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