Paint and Coating Delamination Investigations

This Section provides an illustrative list of example pieces of work LPD Lab Services has carried out since it began doing 3rd Party work in earnest in 2003.  Multiple links are provided to other areas of the website to help customers navigate.

Interface Adhesion, Adhesives and Coatings

• Coatings on roof tiles
• Failing paint coatings on car bodies and car subcomponents.
• Investigation of residual composite release films in Aerospace applications by FTIR and XPS.
• Determination of residual plastics manufacturing mould release agents.
• Checks for use of size at fibre to matrix interface in CFRP by SEM
• Failing metal dip and electroless coatings on merchandise
• Delamination of coatings on test equipment
• Consumer and device electronics
• Determination of reasons for delaminating multilayer printing on security products
• Investigation of peeling interfacial embossing layers
• Improvement of label adhesion to glass bottles
• Adhesive failure investigations and formulation improvement.
• Paint, adhesive, sealant and gasket filler fingerprinting.
• Investigation of failed OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) coatings.
• Measurement of paint and coating degradation temperatures by TGA or pyrolysis GC-MS.
• Paint filler identification in paint smears and type matching of failed paint samples.