Structural Adhesives: Properties, Characterization and Applications

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A structural adhesive can be described as a high-strength adhesive material that is isotropic in nature and bonds two or more parts together in a load-bearing structure. A structural adhesive material must be capable of transmitting the stress/load without loss of structural integrity within design limits. There are many types of established structural adhesives, including epoxy, urethane, acrylic, silicone, etc.

Structural Adhesives comprises nine chapters and is divided into two parts: Part 1, Preparation, Properties, and Characterization; Part 2, Applications.

The topics covered include: structural epoxy adhesives; biological reinforcement of epoxies as structural adhesives; marble dust reinforced epoxy structural adhesive composites; characterization of various structural adhesive materials; effects of shear and peel stress distributions on the behavior of structural adhesives; the inelastic response of structural aerospace adhesives; structural reactive acrylic adhesives: their preparation, characterization, properties, and applications; application of structural adhesives in composite connections; and naval applications of structural adhesives.

Audience

This book should be of much use and interest to adhesionists, materials scientists, adhesive technologists, polymer scientists, and those working in the construction, railway, automotive, aviation, bridge, and shipbuilding industries.

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-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is the editor of more than 160 books dealing with adhesion measurement, adhesion of polymeric coatings, polymer surfaces, adhesive joints, adhesion promoters, thin films, polyimides, surface modification surface cleaning, and surfactants.

S. K. Panigrahi, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India. He has worked as an international visiting academic with the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. With over 27 years of extensive teaching, research, training, and administrative experience, Dr. Panigrahi is currently focused on advanced finite element methods, nonlinear finite element analyses, and modeling engineering structures with functionally graded/monolithic adhesively-bonded joints. His publications include over 190 research articles and peer-reviewed scholarly papers, four books, a monograph, and many conference proceedings, including a series of lecture materials.