[PSUBS-MAILIST] Aerospace and Marine Corrosion

["Mark Steed" <plutomark@mail.astate.edu>]

Greetings all. The Engineering Department at the University I work at had a used book sale the other day. I picked up a 123 page document titled: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST JOINT AEROSPACE AND MARINE CORROSION TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR(Library of Congress Catalog No. 71-91930) It was sponsored by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. The seminar was held in Los Angeles July 10-12, 1968. Although dated, the booklet has lots of excellent information still current today and I think still very useful. There are chapters on corrosion testing, metals, cavitation effects, aerospace materials, marine coatings and ocean technology. There are chapters on: "Effects of Deep Ocean Organisms on Construction Materials" and "Aerospace-Age Materials, Marine Corrosion and the Developing Ocean Technology". There is also an excellent illustrated chapter on: "Filament Wound Composites in Perspective". The booklet contains numerous photographs, charts and illustrations.There are photographs of Alvin, Aluminaut, Deep Quest and a filament wound rocket motor case for an A3 Polaris Missile among many others. I have no idea if this document is still available anywhere or if anyone is interested in data this old. I would like to make it available to the group if there is any interest at all. With the age of the thing, I don't think one would encounter any copyright problems so here is what I can do. The original copy I have is new but the bindings and cover are extremely brittle so I don't think it can take much handling. I will make 2 copies of the thing and send them snail mail to the first two PSubbers who want a copy. They in turn can copy more and send them out to the next two and so on. That way I think everybody who wants one can get one. Ray, what do you think? This is just an idea so if someone has a better one, speak up. I just cannot make a few hundred copies and mail them out with all I have going on right now. Regards to all, Mark Steed