The coatings and high temperature corrosion data bank

This paper presents the current structure of CandHTC-DATA, the data bank on coatings and high temperature corrosion which has been created and is going to be operated by the Corrosion Data Center at the University of Provence in Marseille, France. This data bank includes five databases, namely a bibliographic database, a coating database, a substrate alloy database, a corrosion database and a directory of research institutes and companies involved in high temperature corrosion and protection. These databases have been installed by a relational database management system. Computerized data collection forms have been perfected and tested and are used to collect data for the databases. The implementation with the data activity scheme of building the data bank, the metadata on coating and corrosion, the structure of the data bank and the structure of the databases composing the data bank are presented. (orig.)