Архивы рубрики ‘Adhesive Bonding’

The Historical Development of Adhesive Bonding

To our best knowledge, bonding has been used as joining technique since the most ancient of times. As long ago as 4000 bc, the Mesopotamians are known to have used asphalt for construction purposes, while in 3000 bc the Sumerians produced glue from animal skins and called the product ‘Se-gin’. The discovery of a wooden, […]

Adhesive Bonding as a Joining Technique

Bonding is the surface-to-surface joining of similar or dissimilar materials using a substance which usually is of a different type, and which adheres to the surfaces of the two adherents to be joined, transferring the forces from one adherent to the other. According to DIN EN 923, an adhesive is a nonmetallic substance capable of […]

Adhesive Bonding

Today, there is a large body of international literature on the basics and manifold applications of adhesive bonding. The interdisciplinary nature of the subject, how­ever, contributes towards publications being entered into this body from a wide variety of sources, making information extremely difficult and time-consuming to find. Moreover, the interactions between adhesives and adherents, as […]