Underwater Patching Kit for Diving Suits

Abstract

In a working diver's environment, dry diving suits sometimes snag work surfaces and are torn. If this occurs in a cold water region, the diver's work may have to be delayed or aborted for safety reasons. A potential means of overcoming this problem would be to equip divers with a small repair kit that could be used underwater to patch a tear in dry suits. Recent advances in epoxy-polyamide chemistry enhance the feasibility of developing such a repair kit, since it has been shown that substituted accelerators such as amines can speed cure rates sufficiently to allow the necessary bonding action to take place underwater. Therefore, and as a follow-on to an earlier underwater-adhesive feasibility study, the U.S. Navy requested tht the BAttelle Columbus Laboratories undertake this project to develop a prototype underwater patching kit for use in repairing dry diving suits. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 19, 1980
Accession Number
ADA115228

Entities

People

  • Roger Brunel

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adhesives
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Cold Water
  • Divers
  • Diving Suits
  • Epoxy Compounds
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Low Temperature
  • Materials
  • Packaging
  • Prototypes
  • Salt Water
  • Sequences
  • Water

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  • Surface Coatings Technology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design