Performance of Organic Coatings in Tropical Environments★

Abstract

Seven-, six-, three-, and one-year exposures have provided quantitative data on the ability of organic coating systems to protect metals from the five corrosion environments characteristic of tropical latitudes. Data are reported on the performance of more than 350 coating systems in which alkyds, epoxys, synthetic rubbers, phenolics, vinyls and bitumens were used singly or in combinations and mixtures. 2.2.5