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16 May 2007 New criterion of thin film failure of different organic coatings by shearography
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Proceedings Volume 6422, Sixth Symposium Optics in Industry; 64221G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.742361
Event: Sixth Symposium Optics in Industry, 2007, Monterrey, Mexico
Abstract
In the present work, the temperature versus thermal deformation (strain) with respect to time, of different coating films were studied by a nondestructive technique (NDT) known as shearography. An organic coating, i.e., ACE Premium Enamel, on a metallic alloy, i.e., a carbon steel, was investigated at a temperature range simulating the severe weather temperatures in Kuwait especially between the daylight and the night time temperatures, 20-60 °C. The investigation focused on determining the in-plane displacement of the coating, which amounts to the thermal deformation (strain) with respect to the applied temperature range. Furthermore, the investigation focused on determining the thermal expansion coefficients of coatings, the slope of the plot of the thermal deformation (strain) versus the applied temperature range. In other words, one could determine, from the decreasing value of the thermal expansion coefficients of coatings, a critical (steady state) value of the thermal expansion coefficients of coatings, in which the integrity of the coatings can be assessed with respect to time. In fact, determination of critical (steady state) value of the thermal expansion coefficients of coatings could be accomplished independent of parameters, i.e., UV exposure, Humidity, exposure to chemical species, and so on, normally are considered in conventional methods of the assessment of the integrity of coatings. In other words, with the technique of shearography, one would need only to determine the critical (steady state) value of the thermal expansion coefficients of coatings, regardless of the history of the coating, in order to assess the integrity of coatings. Furthermore, results of shearography indicate that the technique is very useful NDT method not only for determining the critical value of the thermal expansion coefficients of different coatings, but also the technique can be used as a 2D microscope for monitoring the deformation of the coatings in real-time at a submicroscopic scale.
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K. Habib "New criterion of thin film failure of different organic coatings by shearography", Proc. SPIE 6422, Sixth Symposium Optics in Industry, 64221G (16 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.742361
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KEYWORDS
Carbon

Shearography

Thin film coatings

Temperature metrology

Thin films

Solids

Nondestructive evaluation

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