Aerospace Coatings and Corrosion Control: Materials and Applications
Duration: 3 Days
Advancing technologies command a continual understanding of current coating materials and applications. Coating suppliers are being called upon to provide new and innovative coating technologies that address aesthetics, excellent durability and environmental issues. Coating users are also increasingly under pressure to economize their operation and offer corrosion resistant and highly durable and functional coated aircraft parts. It is crucial that those involved in product design and manufacture understand and implement techniques that support industry demand.
This course addresses information and processes regarding current products and future trends in the aerospace industry. An interactive, learner controlled instruction style, with an emphasis on problem solving discussions, makes it easy for attendees to obtain answers to specific questions.
Learning Objectives
By attending this seminar, you will be able to:
- Identify the latest developments in aerospace coatings selection and corrosion prevention methods and processes
- Select aerospace and advanced coatings, primers and composites based on an understanding of their properties, as well as costs and application methods
- Ascertain the durability of coatings and corrosion phenomena and describe how to prevent corrosion by the systems approach
- Implement cost savings through the use of more efficient processes and judicial selection of materials
- Reinforce your mastery of troubleshooting and apply problem solving techniques
Who Should Attend
Aerospace manufacturing personnel including process engineers, design and specification engineers, quality control, technical service, chemists and technical sales personnel dealing with finishing, coating and corrosion prevention will benefit from this seminar.
Prerequisites
This course benefits current users with some coatings, chemistry, and application background.
Topical Outline
DAY ONE
- Aerospace Coatings
- How to engineer the outcome
- Protective exterior and interior coatings
- Adhesion of Coatings
- What is adhesion?
- Requirement for a good adhesion
- Methods of promoting and maintaining adhesion
- Effect of adhesion on durability and corrosion resistance of coatings
- Surface Pretreatment
- Surface nature and characteristics
- Reasons and benefits of surface pretreatment
- How to select a proper surface treatment process
- Selection and application of primers, adhesion promoters and corrosion inhibitors
- Surface cleaning
- Mechanical and physical treatments
- Conversion coatings
- Anodizing treatment of aluminum
- Functional and Decorative Platings
- Selection of platings and properties
- Performance of chrome, copper, nickel, zinc, electroless nickel, and alloys
- Plating plastics
- Corrosion protection via platings
DAY TWO
- How to Design for Corrosion Control
- Material selection
- Process variables
- Structural design
- Intact and non-intact protection methods
- Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
- Fundamentals of corrosion
- Corrosion types and mechanisms
- Corrosion of aluminum alloys
- Corrosion of ferrous metals
- Corrosion of magnesium and alloys
- Methods of preventing corrosion
- The effect of coatings variables on corrosion
- Corrosion Protection by Coatings
- How coatings protect and why they fail
- Factors affecting corrosion protection of coatings
- Selecting coatings for corrosion protection
- Approaches for replacing chrome treatments
- Approaches for preventing corrosion
- Avoiding corrosion by structural design
- Methods of evaluating corrosion protection of coatings
- Selection, Properties and Application of Liquid Organic Coatings
- Coating types and properties
- Selecting compliant liquid coatings
- Advanced technologies
- Possible service life prediction
- Recent developments and future trends
- Waterborne Coatings
- Advantages and limitations
- Understanding of waterborne coatings
- Special consideration for waterborne coatings application
- Selection, merits, application and process variables
- How to convert to waterborne coatings
DAY THREE
- Powder Coatings
- Current status of powder coatings
- When and where to use powder coatings
- Advantages and limitations
- Powder types and properties
- Selecting powder coating and application methods
- What does it take to convert to powder coating
- Performance and troubleshooting
- Coating Composites and Plastics
- Working with plastics
- Nature and paintability of composites and plastics
- Selection of plastics: functional and decorative properties
- Special considerations for coating plastics: what to watch for
- Surface treatment of plastics and composites
- Selecting coatings for plastics
- Requirements for coating defect-free plastic parts
- Coating application and troubleshooting
- Factors affecting application methods
- Performance of coatings on plastics
- Evaluation of coatings of plastics
- Durability and Testing of Coatings
- Why do paints fail
- Factors affecting the performance of coatings
- Mechanisms of paint failure
- Possible methods of coatings life prediction
- How to extend the life of a coating
- How to test coatings for specific applications
- Evaluation of coatings
- Coatings Case Histories
Instructor(s): Jamil Baghdachi
Dr. Baghdachi serves as the President of Innovative Technical Systems Corporation and is a Professor/Program Director at Eastern Michigan University, Coatings Research Institute. He has been actively involved in adhesive bonding and coatings technologies, their applications and the science of adhesion for the past 25 years. An active consultant for the industry, he has been conducting workshops on adhesive bonding, coatings and paint, corrosion, and plastics for the past 20 years. He is the author of two technical books, has published 152 technical papers and holds 41 patents in the above areas. He is a frequent speaker for professional organizations including SAE, ASM, SME and ESD. Prior to his current positions, Dr. Baghdachi was on the technical staff of BASF Corporation and ARCO Chemicals. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Mississippi and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Massachusetts.
Fees: $1,495
; SAE Members: $1,375
2.0 CEUs
For additional information, contact SAE Customer Service at 1-877-606-7323 (724/776-4970 outside the U.S. and Canada) or at CustomerService@sae.org.
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