The ASETS Defense 8th Workshop on Sustainable Surface Engineering for Aerospace and Defense will be held virtually, August 4-6.
Increased environmental and occupational, safety, and healthregulations in the United States and Europe have impacted production and use of chromates, cadmium, and other chemicals in aerospace and defense surface treatment processes. As a result, there is increasing need for environmentally benign alternatives that meet or exceed the performance requirements. This workshop will cover all aspects of alternative coatings and surface treatments, with emphasis on performance, service data, approvals and implementation of clean coatings. General sessions include:
- DoD Corrosion Policy, Issues, Solutions
- Depot perspectives and Mission Readiness
- Accelerated Corrosion Testing and Tracking
- OEM Technology Development
- Additive Manufacturing and Repair
A technical poster session will foster one-on-one discussion of projects funded by SERDP-ESTCP, CPO, ONR, SBA, and other commercial and defense organizations. Side meetings will be held on topics of specific-importance to attendees for detailed discussion of the performance and implementation of new technologies.\
Go here to register: https://www.serdp-estcp.org/asetsdefense
Advanced Surface Engineering Technologies for a Sustainable Defense – ASETSDefense - is a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative sponsored by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program ( SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program ( ESTCP). Its objective is to facilitate the implementation of new, environmentally friendly technologies for surface engineering (coatings and surface treatments) by providing ready access to background information and technical data from research, development, test, and evaluation efforts as well as the status of approvals and implementations. ASETSDefense provides defense organizations with information and assistance to improve weapons system performance and life-cycle cost while reducing or eliminating environmental safety and occupational health (ESOH) impacts from coatings and treatment processes that utilize hexavalent chromium (hex chrome, Cr6+, Cr(VI), chromate, chromic acid); coatings that contain cadmium; and coatings that contain volatile organic compounds (VOC).
