Salt Spray Testing/Cabinet Based Corrosion Testing
- Sometimes referred to salt mist, salt fog, humidity or corrosion testing
- All corrosion and environmental related tests can be tailored to customer requirements
- Typical exposure times range from 16 hours to over 1000 hours
- Accelerated corrosion testing can be used to check protective coatings, surface finishes and material compatibilities
- Our facilities provide a continuous controlled corrosive exposure and can combine salt spray and humidity environments.
- Accelerated testing has a relatively short duration compared to natural environmental conditions
- Supports correct material/coating choice
- Semi-quantitative life assessments
- Ability to compare quality of different supplier coatings
- Ability to compare different coating types.
- Continuous Salt Spray tests include: Neutral Salt Spray (NSS), Acetic Acid Accelerated Salt Spray (AASS), Copper Acetic Acid Accelerated Salt Spray (CASS)
- Typical specifications include: ASTM B117 (NSS), ASTM B368 (CASS), ISO9227 (NSS, AASS and CASS)
- Fog/Dry Cyclic Salt Spray tests, ‘Prohesion’ type, typically ASTM G85: Annex A5
- 100% Humidity testing, typical test durations from 16 hours upwards, either constant temperature (typically ASTM D2247) or cyclic temperature (typically BS 3900:Pt F2)
- Ancillary services include Paint/Coating tests: solvent/chemical resistance, water soak, paint/coating thickness and adhesion.
Keighley Laboratories Ltd
Registered Office:
Croft House
South Street
Keighley
West Yorkshire
BD21 1EG
Registered in England 164811
UK Tel: +44 (0)1535 664211
Email: info@keighleylabs.co.uk