Description
1.1 This practice covers the protocol for vehicle service exposure testing of automotive coatings. Such exposure testing is valuable for the verification of the performance of automotive coatings and correlation with laboratory test data. Vehicle service exposure is intended to provide short term (2 to 20 weeks) exposure to the stress factors associated with vehicle operation. Factors included are scratch, mar, impact, stone chipping, insect impact, bird dropping, tree sap and staining, environmental fallout, etc.
Note 1: Vehicle service exposure is not intended to provide the conditions that are needed for characterizing the long term effects of weathering or corrosion exposure.
Product Details
- Published:
- 07/01/2023
- Number of Pages:
- 3
- File Size:
- 1 file , 250 KB
- Redline File Size:
- 2 files , 310 KB
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus