FSCT publishes Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo

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(2006), "FSCT publishes Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 35 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/prt.2006.12935bac.002

FSCT publishes Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo

FSCT publishes Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo

Keywords: Coatings technology, Polymers, Publications

The FSCT has announced the publication of Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo. This comprehensive publication features the papers presented at the third Service Life Symposium, held in February 2004 in Sedona, AZ. The 432-page, hardbound book focuses on the latest scientific and technical advances leading to more reliable and quantitative predictions of the weathering performance of polymeric materials. Service Life Prediction offers a critical examination of current and alternative service life prediction methods, and reports on advances in laboratory and field exposure testing. Focus is given to advances in informatics, high- throughput and combinatorial methods, predictive models, data collection and data storage methods, and decision support systems. In addition, methods of implementing advances and scientific issues that still need to be addressed are identified and discussed. Editors of the publication are Jonathan W. Martin, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Dr Rose A. Ryntz, Visteon Corporation; and Dr Ray A. Dickie, Editor of Journal of Coatings Technology Research. List price for Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo is $195; the cost for FSCT members is $150, plus shipping and handling. This publication and a wide variety of valuable new references are available online at the FSCT Publications Store, and by contacting FSCT at 492 Norristown Rd., Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422-2350; 610.940.0777; Fax: 610.940.0292; E-mail: publications@coatingstech.org.