Service Life of Coating Films (I)

Mechanical Coating Technique for Composite Films and Composite Photocatalyst Films

Fingering phenomena for driven coating films

A theoretical and numerical model is formulated to describe the instability and the long-time evolution of both gravity-driven and surface-shear-stress-driven thin coating films. A single evolution equation, of higher-order diffusive type, models the flow for either problem. It is derived using the lubrication approximation. For partially wetting systems, the effect of finite contact angle is i...

A Systems Approach to the Service Life Prediction Problem for Coating Systems

The conventional and reliability-based service life methodologies for coating systems are compared with respect to their predictive abilities. It was concluded from this comparison that the scientific merit of several of the underlying premises of the conventional methodology are suspect. Specifically, the premise which draws into question the merit of the conventional methodology is the belief...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Spin coating of thin and ultrathin polymer films

The spin coating of thin (> 200 nm thick) and ultrathin (< 200 nm thick) polymer films is examined in several solvents of varying volatility over a broad range of polymer solution concentrations and spin speeds. Experimentally measured film thicknesses are compared with a simple model proposed by Bornside, Macosko, and Scriven, which predicts film thickness based on the initial properties of th...