SKT-Dayton provides its customers with laboratory analysis, field evaluations, and analytical modeling to enable corrosion control. Corrosion Prevention Compounds or CPCs are used by the aerospace and other industries to provide temporary corrosion protection to metal substrates exposed to corrosive environments. Experience has shown that CPCs qualified to the same Mil Spec do not provide equivalent protection. SKT has evaluated a number of commercial CPC products for the USAF. The results of the work as well as the results of other government sponsored CPC research are catalogued in a user friendly web accessible database, which is utilized by corrosion and sustainment engineers across the DoD and by NASA. SKT has also developed a degradation model for exterior coating systems used on USAF aircraft; and in partnership with Boeing, has led the flight evaluation of a new low-chrome paint system for the USAF.

Leading a team of university researchers, SKT Dayton developed a corrosion prediction model for the USAF that allows structural engineers to estimate the impact of corrosion damage on fatigue life. The model can accept C-scan images from non-destructive inspection of structure to evaluate existing corrosion damage.  The user can input a nominal value for corrosion thinning. The Corrosion Prediction Model interfaces with other USAF structural integrity tools such as AFGROW through a user-friendly Visual C++ interface known as SDMT (Structural Damage Management Tool). Air Force users can see the effects of aircraft basing environment on corrosion and corrosion-fatigue damage.

Corrosion Prevention Services:

• Laboratory weathering of coatings
• Outdoor exposure of coated coupons at 8 worldwide locations
• Coating degradation analysis
• Corrosion analysis
• Predictive modeling