摘要 |
<p>Preventing fouling on marine structures Fouling of a marine structure, such as an oil production platform or a drilling rig, by seaweed, barnacles, mussels and the like, is prevented by securing to the underwater surface of the marine structure a coated flexible sheet material, the outermost surface Or which is a layer of silicone rubber. The preferred coated flexible sheet material, useful as an anti-fouling cladding, is a coated fabric having an outermost coated surface which is a layer of silicone rubber/silicone oil mixture produced by curing a roomtemperature-vulcanisable silicone rubber having hydroxyl end groups in the presence of a silicone oil.</p> |