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The document outlines a test method for evaluating the quality of white reflectorized traffic paints, detailing the apparatus required and the procedures for sample preparation, physical testing, pigment extraction, drying time assessment, and non-volatile matter calculation. It provides specific instructions for measuring density, calculating specific gravity, and determining pigment content and drying characteristics. The document serves as a guideline for ensuring the acceptance of traffic paints based on their performance metrics.

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Soil Mech

The document outlines a test method for evaluating the quality of white reflectorized traffic paints, detailing the apparatus required and the procedures for sample preparation, physical testing, pigment extraction, drying time assessment, and non-volatile matter calculation. It provides specific instructions for measuring density, calculating specific gravity, and determining pigment content and drying characteristics. The document serves as a guideline for ensuring the acceptance of traffic paints based on their performance metrics.

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TEST METHOD FOR REFLECTORIZED TRAFFIC PAINTS, WHITE

SIGNIFICANCE
To determine the quality of paints as basis for acceptance.

APPARATUS:
1. Density Cup
2. Analytical balance
3. Paint brush
4. Plate Glass panel, 100 mm x 200 mm x 3 mm
5. Watch glass
6. Oven with temperature control
7. Desiccator
8. Beaker, 500 ml
9. Centrifuge machine equipped with tubes
10. Stirring rad
11. Furnace
12. Sieves, 0.212 (No. 70)
0.186 (No. 80)
0.063 (No. 230)
13. Flasks, Erlenmeyer, 250 ml cap.
14. Volumetric flask, 1000 ml cap.
15. Wheel and ramp apparatus
16. Reagerits:
a) Sodium Sulfate (Na2504)
b) Sulfuric Acid (H2504)
c) Ammonium Hydroxide (NH4OH)
d) Sodium Chloride Solution (NaCl)
e) Potassium lodide (KI)
f) Hydrochloric Acid (HC))
g) Sodium Thiosulfate Solution (Na2S2O3.5H20)
h) Starch Solution
i) Solvent
1. Benzene
2. Toluene
3. Xylene
4. Acetone
5. Gasoline
PREPARATION OF SAMPLE:
1. Weigh the original sample.
2. Open the container, and note the odor and condition of the contents.
3. Pour of f the thin portion of the paint sample into another container.
4. Stir the settled paste with the use of a paddle and break up lumps, if any.
5. Mix thoroughly, using a figure motion followed by Lifting and beating motion.
6. Continue stirring while gradually returning the poured off partion to the original
container.
7. Pour the paint several times back and forth from one container to the other until
uniform. Leave the well mixed sample in the second container. Close tightly to
minimize evaporation.
8. Clean the original container, wipa dry and weigh.
9. Get the net weight of the contents.

PROCEDURE FOR PHYSICAL TEST


a) Calibration of Density Cup
1. Weigh empty cup with cover, grams
2. Fill with water and weigh, grams
b) Specific Gravity
1. Place the representative sample in Density cup a half-full and weigh.
2. Fill water in the remaining portion until full and Weigh.
3. Compute for the unit mass in Kg. per liter.

COMPUTATION
(c – a)
Unit Mass, Kg/L = -----------------------------------
(b - a) - (d - c)

Where:
a= mass of empty pycnometer, g (obtained in calibration)
b=mass of pycnometer filled with H20 in g (obtained in calibration)
c= mass of pycnometer half-filled with sample, g
d= mass of pycnometer + sample water

c) Extraction of Pigment
1. Weigh the empty centrifuge tube and fill with sample about ¼ to 1/3 full of the
well mixed paint and then weigh.
2. Add extraction solvent either sylene, benzene, toluene, acetone or gasoline and
mix thoroughly.
3. Place the tube in the centrifuge and whirl until the pigment settles.
4. Pour off the liquid and refil with extraction solvent and repeat procedure No. 3
until the pigment is free from oil.
5. Dry in an oven to constant weight at about 105°C. Cool and weigh.
6. Compute for percent pigment.

COMPUTATION
e
%Pigment = ------------ 100
c

Where:
a = mass of empty centrifuge tube, g
b= mass of centrifuge tube plus sample, g
c= Mass of sample, g
d = mass of centrifuge tube plus dry extracted pigments, g
e = mass of pigment

Note:

Vehicle 100% pigment

d) Drying Time
1. Prepare a test stripe, at least 76 mm in width, of the paint to be tested by
mechanical spreader, or other suitable means, on a clean plate glass panel at a
wet film thickness of 0.38 0.01 mm. Use a plate glass panel approximately 100
mm x 200 mm 3 mm.
2. Record the time of application and allow the panel to dry in a horizontal
position under the laboratory conditions specified (27 C and 50 to 60% R.H.).
3. Butt the glass plate against the ramp at regular interval and remove the wheel
from the rest. Hold against the rest as starting point, then free roll the weighted
wheel down the inclined ramp and aver the paint film. Each roll of the wheel
shall be over a new wheel path.
4. Note the end point for no pick-up time when no paint adheres to the rubber
rings of the test wheel when it rolled over the paint film. As the end point 15
approached, roll the weighted wheel over the paint film every 30 seconds.
Report the time elapsed between the application of the paint and the point as
the drying time for no pick-up time of traffic paint. And the

e) Non-Volatile Matter
1. Prior to test, dry the glass dish, glass rod in an oven at and allow to cool at room
temperature 105 ± 2° C in a desiccator and then weigh.
2. Place in the dish approximately 2+0.2 g of sample together with the glass rod and
then weigh. Making sure that the sample is evenly distributed over surface of the dish.
3. Place the dish with the rod and the test portion the oven at 105 plus/minus 2 deg * c
for 3 hours.
4. During the 3 hours period, remove the dish from the oven after a short period of
heating, stir the sample with the glass rod to break up any surface skin and replace in
the oven.
5. When the heating is completed, transfer the dish and rod in the desiccator and allow to
cool and then weigh.

COMPUTATION
m2
%Non-Volatile Matter = -----------×100
m1

Where:
m1= mass of sample before heating, g
m2= mass of sample after heating, g

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