Investigation of Soluble Salts on Kentucky Bridges

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• Creators:
  Palle, Sudhir ; Younce, Rick ; Hopwood II, Theodore
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Kentucky Transportation Center ; Kentucky. Transportation Cabinet
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bridges
  • Maintenance
  • Soluble salts
  • Testing
  • Cleaning
  • Chemicals
  • Rusting
  • Corrosion
  • Recommendations
  • Kentucky
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  KTC-03-02/UI 4-02-1F
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kentucky ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Kentucky Transportation Center
• Description:
  Several state highway agencies are looking at ways to increase the durability of their bridge maintenance painting projects and are using/investigating various chemical neutralizers/soluble salt removers to preclude problems caused by soluble salts. KYTC (Kentucky Transportation Cabinet) officials initiated this study to investigate presence of soluble salts on Kentucky bridges and to determine if they posed a significant problem to bridge paint durability. This work was undertaken by Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) under study KYP 02-0056 "Unforeseen Investigations". The objectives of the study were to: 1) Determine the levels of soluble salts on KYTC bridges; 2) Study the effect of various cleaning methods (pressure washing, power and hand tool cleaning, etc.) on soluble salts on bridges; 3) Establish whether commercially available chemical neutralizing/soluble salt removing agents are capable of reducing salt levels to where they will not damage new paint nor cause early "rust back". 25 p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/15848/dot_15848_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 415.77 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:08f59f8126401d195fcfce183686c986e336f078d8f0e410a0f897b0335d647610ccd2e5146eb1899c79be91a7a14445544c509bf93bdbff7e3cefc691af4057