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Interlaboratory Study of Ice Adhesion Using Different Techniques

Authors :
Caroline Laforte
Jianying He
Zhiliang Zhang
Sigrid Rønneberg
Yizhi Zhuo
Source :
Coatings, Volume 9, Issue 10, Coatings, Vol 9, Iss 10, p 678 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019.

Abstract

Low ice adhesion surfaces are a promising anti-icing strategy. However, reported ice adhesion strengths cannot be directly compared between research groups. This study compares results obtained from testing the ice adhesion strength on two types of surfaces at two different laboratories, testing two different types of ice with different ice adhesion test methods at temperatures of &minus<br />10 and &minus<br />18 &deg<br />C. One laboratory used the centrifuge adhesion test and tested precipitation ice and bulk water ice, while the other laboratory used a vertical shear test and tested only bulk water ice. The surfaces tested were bare aluminum and a commercial icephobic coating, with all samples prepared in the same manner. The results showed comparability in the general trends, surprisingly, with the greatest differences for bare aluminum surfaces at &minus<br />10 &deg<br />C. For bulk water ice, the vertical shear test resulted in systematically higher ice adhesion strength than the centrifugal adhesion test. The standard deviation depends on the surface type and seems to scale with the absolute value of the ice adhesion strength. The experiments capture the overall trends in which the ice adhesion strength surprisingly decreases from &minus<br />10 to &minus<br />C for aluminum and is almost independent of temperature for a commercial icephobic coating. In addition, the study captures similar trends in the effect of ice type on ice adhesion strength as previously reported and substantiates that ice formation is a key parameter for ice adhesion mechanisms. Repeatability should be considered a key parameter in determining the ideal ice adhesion test method.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20796412
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Coatings
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ee7d183c67f6915c992431dfe7735410
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings9100678