Adhesively bonded joints are being widely used in the fabrication process of aircraft and automobile structures. Surface roughness is an important parameter of product quality that strongly affects the perform...
Authors: F. C. Amorim, J. M. L. Reis, J. F. B. Souza and H. S. da Costa Mattos
Water-based ink formulations containing wax, surfactant, and defoamer additives were prepared and printed on polyethylene film substrates. Standard test methods for adhesion, rub resistance, and gloss were don...
Authors: Jar Carlo C. Ramirez and Terence P. Tumolva
The joining process of seam bond is used in automobile construction because of the non-visible joints on mounted parts such as doors, hoods or luggage compartment doors. With these components, a structure-prov...
In the context of lightweight structure design for the transportation and robotics industries, new types of composite structures are being developed, in the form of trusses made of fiber-reinforced polymer com...
Authors: N. P. Lavalette, O. K. Bergsma, D. Zarouchas and R. Benedictus
The most economic and environmental problems result from burial agricultural waste materials. The main objective of the present investigation is to assess the usefulness of agricultural waste in mortar admixtu...
In order to simplify the technique while maintaining its effective clinical performance, as well as its adhesive properties, universal adhesive systems are constantly launched in the market. Thus, the objectiv...
Authors: Fabricia Vianna Costa, Luiza Mello de Paiva Campos, Mirko Dennys Ayala, Walter Gomes Miranda Jr., William Cunha Brandt, Caio Vinicius Gonçalves Roman-Torres and Letícia Cristina Cidreira Boaro
The hydrofluoric acid (HF) is able to promote selective dissolution of the glassy phase in silica-based ceramic. However, the etching leaves insoluble silica-fluoride salts in the surface that affects negative...
Authors: Greciana Bruzi, Adriana Oliveira Carvalho, Marcelo Giannini, Hamilton Pires Maia and Pascal Magne
Adhesive bonding shows a high potential to join carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP), if the adhesion between adhesive and part surface is verified. Unfortunately, this adhesion is often reduced in case of ...
Authors: David Blass, Sven Hartwig and Klaus Dilger
For detailed stress distribution analysis of bondlines, non-linear finite element analysis (FEA) is necessary. Depending on the load case in relation to shear and tension/compression adhesives show a different...
Authors: Martin Johannes Schollerer, Jens Kosmann, Thomas Löbel, Dirk Holzhüter and Christian Hühne
Composite materials are already being used in the mass production of structural components in the automotive industry, particularly at the BMW Group. Adhesive bonding is generally considered to be the best tec...
Authors: André Kraft, Kai Brune, Cristian Tornow, Gudrun Mühlhofer, Bernd Mayer and Bernd Valeske
Quality assured surface pre-treatment may greatly enhance adhesive interactions and, thus, the performance and durability of material joints. This holds true as well for substrates used in coating processes as...
Authors: Yendry Regina Corrales Ureña, Welchy Leite Cavalcanti, Marko Soltau, Karolina Villalobos, Klaus Rischka, Paul-Ludwig Michael Noeske, Kai Brune and Stefan Dieckhoff
Nowadays, structural adhesives are increasingly being used for new applications, replacing conventional bonding methods. Epoxy resins are the most common structural adhesives used due to their suitable mechani...
Authors: A. Q. Barbosa, L. F. M. da Silva, J. Abenojar and M. Figueiredo
Gecko’s foot hairs exhibit significant frictional anisotropy that enables a strong foot grip in a specific direction and an easy detachment in the opposite direction. In this study, we fabricate adhesive devic...
Double cantilever beam (DCB) tests under impact loading conditions were conducted using a falling-wedge impact test machine and a high-speed camera. The change in mode I fracture energy G
Authors: Yuki Yamagata, Xi Lu, Yu Sekiguchi and Chiaki Sato
This paper reports on the adhesion characteristics between microspheres and rubber surfaces. Silica, polystyrene, and poly(methyl methacrylate) microspheres were deposited on cis-1,4-polybutadiene (BR) films. A B...
Authors: Shoko Mishima, Hiroaki Iikura and Toshiaki Ougizawa
Adhesion hysteresis was investigated with the energy dissipation in the contact experiments between a spherical glass lens and a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) block. The experiments were conducted under step-by-...
Authors: Dooyoung Baek, Pasomphone Hemthavy, Shigeki Saito and Kunio Takahashi
Effects of mixed micro and nano silica particles on the dynamic stiffness, stress transmissibility, and energy absorption of the epoxy composite were investigated using the split Hopkinson pressure bars. It wa...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the coumarin-based iodonium hexafluoroantimonate (P3C-Sb) in the polymerization kinetics of an experimental model adhesive resin both in presence of solvent and acid...
Authors: Peterson Oliveira Boeira, Carine Tais Welter Meereis, Carlos Enrique Cuevas Suárez, Suzanne Mendes de Almeida, Evandro Piva and Giana da Silveira Lima
This study evaluated the effect of aging methods on the bond strength of etch-and-rinse adhesive systems to dentin cavities. Eighty bovine incisors were used to prepare dentin cavities, which were bonded with ...
Authors: Letícia Virgínia de Freitas Chaves, Tuany Arantxa de Medeiros, Boniek Castillo Dutra Borges, Maria do Carmo Aguiar Jordão Mainardi, Anderson Catelan and Flávio Henrique Baggio Aguiar
An experimental investigation was performed to study the effect of surface roughness and oxidation on the shear strength of single-lap-joints of AA6061, AA7075 aluminum alloys and an AISI 1080 steel alloy bond...
Authors: M. H. Khan, O. A. Gali, A. Edrisy and A. R. Riahi
This study evaluated the effect of different ceramic primers and heat treatment of silane coupling agents on bond strength of resin cement to glass ceramic. Five ceramic primers (Clearfil Ceramic Primer/CCP, M...
Authors: Thaiane Rodrigues Aguiar, Wladimir Franco de Sá Barbosa, Marina Di Francescantonio and Marcelo Giannini
