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Colour Matching in Decorative Thermally Sprayed Glass Coatings

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Coloured coatings were obtained on steel by plasma spraying without severe in-flight alteration of pigments, taking profit of the low thermal conductivity of the glassy matrix of glaze particles. Colour matching was studied by mixing 3 different glazes, comparing Grassmann and Kubelka-Munk based algorithms. Results suggest that the latter method should be preferred upon Grassmann method, particularly when the light absorption/dispersion ratios of coloured feedstocks are very different.

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Abbreviations

a, b :

Light absorption/scattering parameters, dimensionless

a*, b*:

Orthogonal colour parameters, dimensionless

c :

Volume concentration of pigment, %

C*:

Chroma, dimensionless

CTE:

Coefficient of thermal expansion (10−6 K−1)

E :

Colour global parameter

h :

Coating thickness, μm

h*:

Hue, dimensionless

h ∞ :

“Infinite” coating thickness, μm

i :

Variable (dimensionless)

K :

Light absorption, m−1

KM:

Kubelka-Munk method

L*:

Lightness of colour, dimensionless

n :

Constant (dimensionless)

P :

Colorimetric characteristic, dimensionless

RGB:

Grassmann method

S :

Light scattering, m−1

Δ:

Difference between reference and experimental value

λ:

Wavelength, nm

μ:

Viscosity (Pa s)

ρ*:

Corrected light reflectance (excluding specular effect) of the coating, dimensionless

ρ:

Experimental light reflectance (including specular effect) of the coating, dimensionless

ρ0 :

Experimental light reflectance of the substrate, dimensionless

ρ0*:

Experimental light reflectance of the substrate, dimensionless

ρ*∞ :

Corrected light reflectance of coating with “infinite thickness”

Ψ:

Average difference between calculated and experimental reflectance spectra, dimensionless

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The authors thank Olivier Landemarre, Ghislaine Bertrand and Nilo Tozzi, for their technical support and assessment.

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Poirier, T., Bertrand, P. & Coddet, C. Colour Matching in Decorative Thermally Sprayed Glass Coatings. J Therm Spray Tech 22, 48–56 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-012-9848-9

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