Studies show ASTM-B117 salt spray test does not correlate to real-world environments
In 1995, The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) published a paper that concluded, “It is obvious that ASTM-B117 Salt Spray (Fog) Testing and similar methods offered a rapid but unreliable means for predicting coating behavior.” For the 20+ years since that paper was published, the ASTM B-117 salt spray procedure
