Assessment of Structural Steel Coating Applications

Research is needed to gather, catalog and assess historical data available at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District level with the goal of creating a database capable of identifying and correlating the factors that result in premature coating failures. Furthermore, the research will provide recommendations on data that should be required input for an effective, electronic database on all new construction and maintenance projects with coating related activities. The expected benefit of decisions based on the results (such as specification changes) is longer service of coatings, thus significant reduction in annual maintenance costs related to coating failures. Coatings on steel bridges will last longer (in line with expected service life) and less money will be spent on repainting work.

Project

Status: Active
Funding: $99860
Contract Numbers:
BE935
Sponsor Organizations:
Florida Department of Transportation

605 Suwannee Street
Tallahassee, FL United States 32399-0450
Managing Organizations:
Florida Department of Transportation

Research Center
605 Suwannee Street MS-30
Tallahassee, FL United States 32399-0450
Project Managers:
Knight, Chase
Performing Organizations:
Florida International University

Division of Research
11200 SW 8th St, MARC 430
Miami, FL United States 33199
Principal Investigators:
Zhang, Lu
Start Date: 20200407
Expected Completion Date: 20210930
Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Coatings; Data collection; Databases; Evaluation and assessment; Failure; Recommendations; Steel bridges; Structural steel
Geographic Terms: Florida
Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01736165
Record Type: Research project
Source Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
Contract Numbers: BE935
Files: RIP, STATEDOT
Created Date: Apr 14 2020 10:24AM