CLEANLINESS AND ANCHOR PATTERNS AVAILABLE THROUGH CENTRIFUGAL BLAST CLEANING OF NEW STEEL

Structural steel plate, shapes, and fabrications are blast cleaned to remove mill-scale, rust and other contaminants, and to produce a surface profile (an "etch" or "anchor pattern") to which protective coatings will adhere. Following the introduction of the more sophisticated thin coatings, greater attention has been focused on surface profile and cleanliness, and the need for more and better information about surface profiles produced by the various surface cleaning and preparation processes has increased. Centrifugal blast cleaning with steel abrasives has become widely known and accepted by the structural steel industry as an effective, economical means for removing surface contaminants. Along with the need for information concerning surface profiles produced by other processes (such as airblast cleaning with various abrasives and acid pickling), industry has also sought clearer definitions of the various surface profiles which can be achieved with the centrifugal blast cleaning process. The NACE Task Group T-6G-13 was organized for the purpose of conducting investigations to provide this information, and the results are presented in this report.

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• Corporate Authors:

  National Association of Corrosion Engineers

  P.O. Box 1499
  Houston, TX  United States  77001
• Authors:
  • Mallory, A W
  • Weaver, P E
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 9-13
• Serial:
  • Materials Performance (MP)
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: National Association of Corrosion Engineers
  • ISSN: 0094-1492
  • Serial URL: http://www.nace.org/Publications/Materials-Performance/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Blast cleaning; Blast loads; Cleaning; Metal working; Surface preparation
• Old TRIS Terms: Blast; Metal cleaning
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147521
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM