Organic coatings are applied for two main reasons: appearance and protection. Any loss or reduction of either attribute can be considered a failure and there is an amazing range of things that can go wrong. This paper will describe representative coatings failures and their causes and discuss means of preventing or reducing them.

What are coatings failures? Why do they happen? What can we do about them?

240th National Meeting (2010)

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