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COATINGS

Mike Bahtiarian, Andrew Margarit, Stefan T. Wolczko

Sound Engineer at Noise Senior Project Specialist GPA’s Business control Engineering (NCE) at Mascoat Development Manager with a substrate, and then that noise is reverberated on the level meter (or SLM). It has become a fairly common de- other side of the substrate. This propagates the noise into vice which reads the sound pressure level in A-weighted the next environment. By reducing the vibration, you re- decibels or dB(A). The underwater radiated noise is much duce the noise that is transferred through the substrate.” more complicated measurement process which involves

Applied in thicker coats than standard paints, Mascoat’s signi