Structural Adhesive Joints: Design, Analysis, and Testing

This timely book on structural adhesives joints showcases all the pertinent topics and will be of immense value to scientists and engineers in many industries.

Most structures are comprised of a number of individual parts or components which have to be connected to form a system with integral load transmission path. The structural adhesive bonding represents one of the most enabling technologies to fabricate most complex structural configurations involving advanced materials (e.g. composites) for load-bearing applications. Quite recently there has been a lot of activity in harnessing nanotechnology (use of nanomaterials) in ameliorating the existing or devising better performing structural adhesives.

The 10 chapters by subject matter experts look at the following issues:

• Surface preparation for structural adhesive joints (SAJ)
• Use of nanoparticles in enhancing performance of SAJ
• Optimization of SAJ
• Durability aspects of SAJ
• Debonding of SAJ
• Fracture mechanics of SAJ
• Failure analysis of SAJ
• Damage behavior in functionally graded SAJ
• Impact, shock and vibration characteristics of composites for SAJ
• Delamination arrest methods in SAJ

Kashmiri Lal Mittal was employed by the IBM Corporation from 1972 through 1993. Currently, he is teaching and consulting worldwide in the broad areas of adhesion as well as surface cleaning. He has received numerous awards and honors including the title of doctor honoris causa from Maria Curie-Sk??odowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is the editor of more than 130 books dealing with adhesion measurement, adhesion of polymeric coatings, polymer surfaces, adhesive joints, adhesion promoters, thin films, polyimides, surface modification surface cleaning, and surfactants. Dr. Mittal is also the Founding Editor of the journal Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives.

S. K. Panigrahi (PhD, IIT Kharagpur) is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India. He has worked as an International Visiting Academic with University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). He has more than 27 year of wide and intensive teaching, research, training and administrative experience. He has been working on the development of advanced finite element methods and nonlinear finite element analyses and modelling of engineering structures with functionally graded/monolithic adhesively bonded joints. He has published over 190 research articles in peer-reviewed scholarly research papers international journals/conferences including 4 books, a monograph and many conference proceedings including a series of lecture materials.