Preliminaries; Preface; Contents; 1 Linking Accelerated Laboratory Test with Outdoor Performance Results for a Model Epoxy Coating System; 2 A Statistical Model for Linking Field and Laboratory Exposure Results for a Model Coating; 3 Advances in Exploring Mechanistic Variations in Thermal Aging of Polymers; 4 Final Report on the Subject of Accelerated Weathering An ASTM D01.53 Ten Year Exposure Study; 5 An Analysis of the Effect of Irradiance on the Weathering of Polymeric Materials; 6 A New Approach to Characterizing Weathering Reciprocity in Xenon Arc Weathering Devices
Summary
Combines developed content derived from topics discussed in the Fourth International Symposium on Service Life Prediction (Key Largo, Florida, December 2006). This work examines the alternative methodologies used to assess the service life of polymeric materials. It presents the advances in accelerated and field exposure testing protocols
