Paint and Coat­ing Test­ing Man­ual
Gard­ner-Sward Hand­book, 14th Ed.

The Paint and Coat­ing Test­ing Man­ual is the per­fect guide for the coat­ing tech­nol­o­gist. This guide pro­vides in-depth infor­ma­tion on test pro­ce­dures, stan­dards, and envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions that can help every­one from the new­comer to the expe­ri­enced researcher.

• Cur­rent indus­try reg­u­la­tions
• The main poly­meric spe­cies, col­o­rants, spe­cial pig­ments, exten­ders, and addi­tives used in the coat­ings indus­try
• Test­ing instru­ments used in the indus­try
• Anal­y­sis of paint and paint-related defects
• ASTM and other Inter­na­tio­nal stan­dards

Paint & Coat­ing Test­ing Man­ual Con­tents:
Part 1:  Reg­u­la­tions
Part 2:  Nat­u­rally Occur­ring Mate­rials
Part 3:  Syn­thetic Mate­rials
Part 4:  Plas­ti­ciz­ers
Part 5:  Sol­vents
Part 6:  Pig­ments
Part 7:  Addi­tives
Part 8:  Phys­i­cal Char­ac­teris­tics of Liquid Paints and Coat­ings
Part 9:  Films for Test­ing
Part 10:  Opti­cal Prop­er­ties
Part 11:  Phys­i­cal and Mechan­i­cal Prop­er­ties
Part 12:  Envi­ron­men­tal Resis­tance
Part 13:  Spe­cific Prod­uct Test­ing
Part 14:  Anal­y­sis of Paints and Paint Defects
Part 15:  Instru­men­tal Anal­y­sis
Part 16:  Spe­c­i­fi­ca­tions