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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd., Otake-shi, JP;
Hirohisa Mieno, Otake, JP;
CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD., Otake-shi, JP;
Abstract
A method of estimating a frictional resistance of a ship bottom coating film, the method including measuring any one of Rz (maximum height roughness), Rc (mean height of roughness profile elements), Ra (arithmetic mean roughness), Rq (root mean square roughness) and RZJIS (ten-point mean roughness) as a roughness height R in a mean length RSm of roughness profile elements in the range of 2,000 to 10,000 μm according to JIS B 0601:2001 (ISO4287:1997) on a coating film formed by applying a ship bottom coating paint on a substrate and calculating a frictional resistance increase rate FIR (%) from a mirror surface by the following formula (1), wherein coefficient C is a constant depending on the kind of the roughness height R and a frictional resistance testing method, and is previously determined in such a manner that plural ship bottom coating films each having different roughness are subjected to a roughness measurement and a frictional resistance test in a definite evaluation length, and then the coefficient C is determined by the formula (1) using the roughness height R, the mean length RSm of roughness profile elements and the frictional resistance increase rate FIR (%), which have been measured.