Chapter Q's Flashcards
What is the inspector’s responsibility when it comes to safety on a project?
The inspector is not responsible for safety enforcement but should report on any issues that may effect the project.
How does NACE define the inspector’s role?
The book: quality control technician responsible for observing and reporting conformance or deviation for the projects specifications
Name some tests that may need to be conducted during surface preparation and coating operations.
Temperature, relative humidity, due point, surface cleanliness, Anchor profile
Name some of the documentation/reports that may be required to be maintained on a coatings project.
Daily reports, weekly reports, material usage reports, manpower and equipment, non conformance and conformance
What are the most important characteristics of a good report?
Accuracy, detailed, objective
What is the inspector’s primary responsibility and what should the inspector not do as it pertains to the specification
Enforce the specifications, but can never change the specification for any reason
What type of information could you expect to find on a product data sheet?
Surface preparation and application information such as…
Recommended level of surface cleanliness
Recommended application methods
Recommended equipment (such as tip size)
Environmental parameters for application
Max and min temps
Curing times
Recoat windows
What type of information could you expect to find on a material safety data sheet?
Health, safety and environmental, PPE required - physical characteristics - emergency responder information.
Explain the difference between quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC).
QA: Any systematic process of checking to see weather a product or service being developed is meeting specified requirements.
QC: a procedure or set of procedures intended to ensure that a manufactured procurement or preformed service adheres to the defined set of quality criteria or meets the requirements of the client or customer.
Define corrosion:
The deterioration of a substance, usually a metal from a reaction with its environment.
What is passivation?
A layer or oxides formed on the surface of a metal that provides corrosion protection, stainless steal for example
What are the elements of a corrosion cell?
Anode, cathode, metallic pathway, electrolyte
Describe what happens at the anode.
The metal dissolves into the electrolyte
The anode is the part that dissolves
What is the function of the electrolyte?
Allows that passage of ions to connect the corrosion cell.
What is the function of the metallic pathway?
Transfer electrons. Allows the flow of electron to connect the corrosion cell.
The general rules of galvanic corrosion are:
The less noble (more reactive) metal when connected to a more noble (less reactive metal) will corrode preferentially
Name at least five factors that affect the rate of corrosion.
Humidity - (wetness) the wetter the more corrosion
Oxygen - more oxygen - faster corrosion
Chemical salts - increases corrosion due to increasing the efficiency of the electrolyte
Pollutants - (acid gases)
Temperature - higher temp- faster corrosion
General corrosion is:
Results in a Relatively uniform loss of material over the entire surface.
Results in a general thinning of the affected surface
Relatively easy to inspect
Does not cause catastrophic failures
Localized corrosion is:
Typically pitting and crevice corrosion
It is typically the most concerning as damage is concentrated and loss of integrity or structural failure can result
List some of the common tools/methods used for corrosion control
- design - build to avoid corrosion
- inhibitors - additives that slow corrosion
- metal selection - choose better material
- cathodic protection - using another metal attached with a pathway that will corrode instead (becomes the anode)
- protective coatings
- splash zone systems
- alteration of the environment
What is the galvanic series?
A list of metals in order or reactivity (more or less noble) in seawater at 25° C
Identify some of the defects that can be caused by incorrect application temperatures.
Failure to cure
To rapid solvent evaporation
Poor film formation
Describe relative humidity.
• Measure of the amount of moisture in the air compared to
saturation level.
- May affect the coating if too high or too low.
- Too high may cause solvent entrapment.
What is the dew point temperature?
Me: The temperature in which moisture will begins to form the the surface of steel
Wit rate should be 5° above. The due point for applications
Name some of the effects wind may have on a coating project.
- Blowing abrasives
- Causing excessive overspray
- Accelerating solvent evaporation
- Contributing to the formation of dry spr