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Volume 3, No. 3
Fall 2007
- Innovative Manhole Protection Affords Benefits at Redstone Arsenal
The Army’s Redstone Arsenal facility in northern Alabama conducts basic and advanced weapons system research and development. It also places the right missile and aviation systems with U.S. troops and provides weapons systems and supplies to U.S. allies. In 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers got a project underway to address corrosive environmental effects and improve energy efficiency in heat distribution manholes at Redstone Arsenal. (Read More...)
- Sensing Technology Predicts When It’s Time to Recoat
In Okinawa, Japan, coating degradation is a problem on protective structures for mission-critical equipment at Torii Station’s Command Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Facility. The Army Corps of Engineers has found a remote sensing method that will lower maintenance costs by predicting and scheduling repainting, based on pre-selected corrosion rate criteria. (Read More...)
- Navy Investigates Advanced CPC with Long-Lasting Protection
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has developed an advanced, high-performance corrosion prevention compound (CPC) called Navguard, capable of lasting much longer than CPCs currently in use. (Read More...)
- NAVSEA Having Luck with New Coating Removal Method
In 2006 the Navy and Naval Research Lab began testing and improving a process known as heat induction technology to remove coatings in ship tanks and voids. The agencies hope to perfect the method and use it as an alternative to the costly, hazardous process of abrasive blasting. (Read More...)
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