Surface cleaning and blasting for the ship hull of oil tankers and passenger ships are conventional operations in a ship yard with surface roughness requirements. Several process parameters affect the ...

Where grit blasting equipment is unavailable or where the metal is too fine to survive blasting treatment, joint surfaces can be cleaned using a wire brush or with abrasive cloth or paper (alumina or ...

This paper deals with the design and construction of a climbing robot for performing grit blasting operations in shipyards. The robot is based on a double sliding platform that uses permanent magnets ...

Robotic Grit-Blast Machine Surface preparation work for thermal spray coating applications during engine overhaul can be automated with a robotic gritblasting system like Guyson’s Model RB-9 ...

Grit-blasting at the Palumbo shipyards, that is polluting the Cottonera area, is set to continue despite residents’ concerns over health risks associated with the airborne by-product of the ...