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AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsDale A. Sowell, Peter J. Sarman, Eugene C. Fischer
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A configuration of grooves provided in a nonskid coating on an aircraft carrier flight deck promotes the lateral and backward drainage of slippery liquids. A straight longitudinal middle groove extending fore and aft intersects multiple “W”-shaped grooves each extending athwartship. Each W-shaped groove includes a pair of “V”-shaped groove sections located on opposite sides of the middle groove. Each V-shaped groove section aims vertex-forward and includes a pair of straight groove segments defining an interior angle in the approximate range between 60° and 120°. Abrasive entities may be included in the coating for nonskid purposes. The coating's inclusion of metal-polymer nanolaminate entities along with other pigment entities may serve to reduce or minimize solar heat absorption, particularly in terms of increasing solar reflectance and decreasing thermal emittance. The provision of pyramidal texturing in the coating may provide additional nonskid and/or solar heat absorptive benefits.
A coating composition which, in an uncured condition, comprises by percentage weight:
A structure for situation upon a substrate, said structure comprising a coating composition in a cured condition, said structure having formed therein an approximately linear medial groove and plural herringbone grooves, each said herringbone groove traversing said medial groove so as to be divided thereby into two V-shaped groove sections, each said V-shaped groove section being formed by two approximately linear groove segments, each said groove segment being obliquely oriented with respect to said medial groove.
A method for applying a coating composition to a substrate, said method comprising:
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