Facepiece-Visor Assembly for Aluminized Fire-fighters' Crash-Rescue Protective Hood (Investigation of Abrasion-Resistant Overcoating)

Abstract

The Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility (NCTRF) investigated three protective overcoatings, identified as Abcite, 0-22, and Epoxy, as possible improvements to the present transparent protective overcoating on the infrared reflective gold-coated facepiece of the Aluminized Fire-fighters' Crash-Rescue Protective Hood. All samples tested with the three overcoatings easily passed new radiant heat test requirements and showed a substantial improvement in abrasion resistance over the standard coatings. When applied to the standard facepiece materials, the coatings showed good adhesion to the gold. The coatings on these materials showed reasonable resistance to a number of environmental exposures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA026034

Entities

People

  • Norman F. Audet

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adhesion
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Coatings
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Films
  • Heat Flux
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Navy
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Research Facilities
  • Resistance
  • Substrates
  • Test Methods
  • Textiles
  • Wear Resistance

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  • Materials Science
  • Surface Coatings Technology.