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Paints for Aerospace Applications

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Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies

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Paints are important for aerospace applications in view of appearance, surface protection, and as stealth coatings. Paints are generally applied as a scheme involving primer-coats and top-coats for achieving ultimate protection. The satisfactory performance of paint coatings throughout the service life of an aircraft depends on many aspects. The present chapter discusses these paint aspects under the following topics: importance for aerospace applications; selection for aerospace applications; application areas in military aircraft; special functional paints; the properties, testing and analysis of paints; ageing of paints; airworthiness certification of paints; volatile organic compounds regulations; and paint monitoring. Some important new developments of paints are also discussed.

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Acknowledgments

The authors of this chapter wish to place on record their profound gratitude to the numerous researchers and technologists on whose work this manuscript is based. They are most grateful to Dr RJH Wanhill and Dr N Eswara Prasad for their detailed chapter review and guidance. They are most grateful to Dr Hegde, MD, Southfield Paints, Bangalore, for his advice and chapter review. The authors express their gratitude to Shri Veerappa for his support in presenting the chapter figures.

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  1. Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness (Foundry & Forge), CEMILAC, Bangalore, India

    K. Shunmugapriya & Shirish S. Kale

  2. CEMILAC, DRDO, Bangalore, India

    G. Gouda & P. Jayapal

  3. Office of DG (AERO), DARE, DRDO, Bangalore, India

    K. Tamilmani

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Shunmugapriya, K., Kale, S.S., Gouda, G., Jayapal, P., Tamilmani, K. (2017). Paints for Aerospace Applications. In: Prasad, N., Wanhill, R. (eds) Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies . Indian Institute of Metals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2134-3_25

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