ASTM Int'l Issues Luminance Ratio Standard - ASTM E 2630
October 14, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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ASTM International developed ASTM E 2630 - Test Method for Luminance Ratio of a Fluorescent Specimen Using a Narrow Band Source after the U.S. Navy requested improved visual inspection techniques to prevent corrosion on newly painted shipboard tanks.
"The Navy needed a technically rigorous specification that multiple industries could reference to deliver product that would work together as a system for the specified application," said Richard Harold, consultant, Color and Appearance Consulting LLC and Committee E12 chair.
ASTM E 2630 will also be useful to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Highway Administration, large ship owners and builders, paint companies manufacturing paint for corrosion control and inspection flashlight manufacturers that comply with ASTM E 2501 - Specification for Light Source Products for Inspection of Fluorescent Coatings, said ASTM International.
Other potential users of ASTM E 2630 include owners and operators of steel marine structures such as offshore oil rigs, the pipeline and petroleum oil tank industries and municipal water tank owners.
A proposed standard that will specify coating systems to be used in conjunction with ASTM E 2630 and ASTM E 2501 will be developed by a task group of Subcommittee D01.26 on Optical Properties, part of ASTM International Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications.
The standard was developed by Subcommittee E12.05 on Fluorescence, part of ASTM International Committee E12 on Color and Appearance.
Source: ASTM International.