Automotive Paints and Coatings is an authoritative treatment of all stages of the coating process—from body materials, paint shop design, and pre-treatment, through primer surfacers and top coats.

Automotive Paints and Coatings features:

• color control
• specification and testing of coatings
• as well as quality and supply concepts

Contents

• Historic Development
• Legislation
• Automotive and Automotive Paint Market

1. Materials nad Concepts in Body Construction

• Methods of Body Construction
• Principles of Design
• Materials
• Manufacturing Methods
• Joining Methods

2. Pre-Treatment of Multi-metal Car Bodies

• Car Body Construction Material
• Pre-Treatment Process
• Car Body Pre-Treatment Lines
• Properties and Specifications of Zinc Phosphate Conversion Layers
• Environmental Legislation

3. Electrodeposition Coatings

• Physico-Chemical Basics of the Deposition Process
• Data for Quality Control
• Resins and Formulation Principles
• Film Performance of Cathodic Electrocoatings
• Design of Electrocoating Lines
• Defects During Application and their Prevention
• Electrocoatings and Similar Process Used in Automotive Supply Industry

4. Primer Surfacer

• Requirement Profiles
• Raw Materials
• Liquid Primer Surfacer
• Powder Primer Surfacer
• Process Sequence

5. Top Coats

• Pigments and Color
• Single Stage Topcoats
• Basecoats
• Clearcoat
• Consolidated Process

6. Polymeric Engineering For Automotive Coating Applications

• Polyacrylic Resins
• Polyester Resins
• Polyurethane Dispersions
• Polyurethane-Polyacrylic-Resins
• Epoxy Resins
• Crosslinking Agents and Network Forming Coating Systems

7. Paint Shop Design and Quality Concepts

• Coating Process Steps
• General Lay Out
• Coating Facilities
• Paint Drying
• Quality Aspects
• Economic Aspects

8. Coatings For Plastic Parts

• Exterior Plastics
• Interior Plastics

9. Adhesive Boning

• Fundamentals
• Bonding in Car Manufacturing

10. In-plant Repair

11. Specifications and Testing

• Color and Appearance Measurement
• Weathering Resistance
• Corrosion Protection
• Mechanical Properties

12. Supply Concepts

• Quality Assurance
• Supply Chain

13. Outlook

• Status and Public Awareness of the Automotive Painting Process
• Legislation Trends
• Customer's Expectations
• Innovative Equipments and Processes
• Innovative Business Ideals

Index

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