Objective
Despite several projects financed by ECSC there is still today no well-accepted, reliable and standardised accelerated corrosion test for coil-coated products used in the building industry. Hence, an important challenge is to develop a reliable and standardised accelerated corrosion test for these materials. The overall objective of this project is to gain a greater understanding of the influence of climatic parameters on the degradation of coil-coated steel products used in the building industry. The final aim is to provide guidelines for the development of reliable and repeatable accelerated corrosion tests for coil-coated steel. In order to meet these objectives the influence of a large number of climatic parameters on the degradation of coil-coated steel will be studied by means of factorial design and statistical analyses. The data will also be compared with that of field exposure and that of existing accelerated corrosion tests. In addition the in-situ scanning Kelvin probe will be used in order to follow the mechanisms of degradation as a function of the different climatic parameters.
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92800 LA DEFENSE CEDEX 7
France