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DFT-RULES R 17a
WHY:
How to control that specification is met? VERY
How many measurements should be taken? RELEVANT
How to decide after having taken the measurements? QUESTIONS
What is max. DFT?
The customer buys a certain dry film thickness according to the specification.
Ideally he should not get less.
In practice we know that a job is never perfect, but on the other hand
insufficiencies should not be too large neither in quantity (Area) nor
in quality (DFT).
Here decision rules come in e.g. the so-called "80-20", "90-10" or
similar rules.
HOW DO THEY WORK?

"80 - 20"
Quality Quantity
(DFT) (Readings)

dft must not be less than A maximum of 20% of the readings

80% of the specified may be below specified dft.

Many other combinations of figures for the rule can be used and the sum
does not necessarily have to be 100.
When employed, the usual figures for various segments and areas are:
"80-20" Shipbuilding including tank coatings with Resistance
Guides. Offshore and Onshore constructions.
"90-10" Containers.
The Rules are good for general surfaces, - but it is always recommendable
to check areas difficult to paint e.g. rear sides of bulb-profiles etc. separately.
HOW MANY MEASUREMENTS TO TAKE?
The accuracy of making the correct decision is invariably linked to taking
a certain amount of readings at random.
Guidelines to how many readings to take are indicated on page R17b.
HOW TO DECIDE:
Example by the "80-20"-Rule:
80-: No reading may be below 80% of that specified
without repair being undertaken.
-20: Not more than 20% of the measurements may be in the
range from 80 - 100% of that specified without repair
being undertaken.

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DFT-RULES R 17b
HOW MANY MEASUREMENTS TO TAKE?
Several international as well as local standards are now paying
interest to statistical methods, when checking dft.
Today both ISO and SSPC has issued standards.

Below is quoted the sampling plan described in ISO 19840.

For details please refer to the standard.

Area/length of Minimum number Maximum number of

inspection area of measurements measurements allowed
m² or m to be repeated
up to 1 5 1
above 1 to 3 10 2
above 3 to 10 15 3
above 10 to 30 20 4
above 30 to 100 30 6
above 100* add 10 for every 20% of the minimum
additional 100 m² or number of measurements
100 m or part
thereof
Area above 1000 m² or m should be divided into smaller areas

Please further refer to the standards acceptance and rejection criteria.

as well as the standards special correction values for steel surface
roughness.

Containers
Checking container-dft is very important because of
the general low dft specified for these and the intense
manufacturing procedures.
Therefore very frequent checks, many measurements and the use
of the "90 - 10" Rule are necessary.
A different measurement procedure - taking full advantage of
modern electronic equipment - is used as a part of an integrated
reporting system.

Chemically Resistant Tank Coatings

Also here correct dry film thickness is very important.
1 reading pr every 2 sqm is recommended.

Other important standards

SSPC-PA 2 should be noted. When specified, please refer to the

standards specific text for procedures and decision rules.

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