The use of adhesives has many advantages over other methods of fastening. Presenting a smooth exterior, spreading of the load and ease of joining thin or dissimilar materials are all reasons why the use of adhesives for bonding structures is steadily growing and finding new applications. Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering is a concise guide to adhesive joints within structures, especially those capable of bearing high loads. The book covers all aspects of design, materials selection and testing, including the physical properties and cure-chemistry of structural adhesives and how to select adhesives for particular applications; surface preparation by physical or chemical methods (with or without the use of primers and coupling agents); and new sections on surface analysis and water durability. There is also a detailed guide to stresses in adhesive joints and joint design. Thoroughly revised and updated since the first edition, the Second Edition contains new sections on recent topics of importance, such as water durability. This book contains everyhting an engineer needs to know to be able to design and produce adhesively bonded joints that are required to carry significant loads. Advantages and disadvantages are given, together with a sufficient description of the necessary mechanics and chemistry involved to enable the designer to make a sound engineering judgement in each particular case.

Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering

Engineering & Transportation

Adams, R.D.

Comyn, J.

Wake, W.C.

Engineering

Springer

Unlike materials such as ceramics, glasses and metals, polymers are permeable. This may seem a disadvantage in that polymeric containers may allow loss or contamination of their contents, and that polymeric substances such as adhesives and fibre-reinforced composites can be weakened by diffusion of water. However, this property can be put to good use as is shown by drug delivery systems and the dyeing and pigmentation of fabrics. This volume has been written to examine the recent advances in several applied aspects of polymer permeability which have occurred over the past few years. The book opens with an introductory chapter on the basic issues in the mathematics of diffusion, and is followed by two chapters where fundamental aspects of diffusion in polymers are presented. The last six chapters each examine an area of applied science where permeability is an issue and range from discussions on packaging and polymer degradation to coatings and encapsulants for electronic and optoelectronic devices. The book will primarily interest polymeric materials research and development departments, but across a broad ranger of industries - from pharmaceuticals to food packers and from adhesive manufacturers to electronic circuit manufacturers.

Polymer permeability

Elsevier Applied Science Publishers

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