Degradation of Powder Epoxy-Coated Panels Immersed in a Saturated Calcium Hydroxide Solution Containing Sodium Chloride

DTFH61-92-Y-30115Blasted-steel panels were coated with two commercial powder epoxy coatings. Approximately half (80) of the coated panels were scribed; while the other half remained defect-free. All of the panels were immersed in a saturated calcium hydroxide solution containing 3.5% sodium chloride maintained at either 35 or 50 deg C. None of the unscribed panels degraded after 3074 hr of immersion at 35 deg C; whereas, all of the scribed panels degraded within 24 hr after immersion, regardless of the immersion solution temperature. Scribed panels degraded in three ways: (1) anodic corrosion, (2) cathodic disbondment, and (3) wet-adhesion loss. Anodic corrosion was attributed to localized crevice corrosion. The rate of anodic growth depended on the immersion solution temperature, but it did not depend on the type of coating or coating thickness. Liquid-filled blisters formed above the anodic sites after approximately 1000 hr of immersion at 35 deg C. The chloride concentration of the blister fluid was four times greater than that of the bulk solution and its pH was around 5. The rate of cathodic disbondment was not affected by the type of coating or coating thickness, but it was greatly affected by an increase in the temperature of the immersion solution. Wet-adhesion loss was not affected by coating thickness, but it does depend on the type of coating and immersion temperature. Also, even though the wet-adhesion strength of the two coatings differed by a factor of five, the rate of corrosion for the two coatings was not significantly different

Sporting embodiment: sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology

Whilst in recent years sports studies have addressed the calls ‘to bring the body back in’ to theorisations of sport and physical activity, the ‘promise of phenomenology’ remains largely under-realised with regard to sporting embodiment. Relatively few accounts are grounded in the ‘flesh’ of the lived sporting body, and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such analysis. A wide-ranging, multi-stranded, and interpretatively contested perspective, phenomenology in general has been taken up and utilised in very different ways within different disciplinary fields. The purpose of this article is to consider some selected phenomenological threads, key qualities of the phenomenological method, and the potential for existentialist phenomenology in particular to contribute fresh perspectives to the sociological study of embodiment in sport and exercise. It offers one way to convey the ‘essences’, corporeal immediacy and textured sensuosity of the lived sporting body. The use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is also critically addressed. Key words: phenomenology; existentialist phenomenology; interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA); sporting embodiment; the lived-body; Merleau-Pont