Chemistry and Materials Science

Adhesives are indispensable. They are required pling agents, and other key ingredients. Special in myriad products-aircraft and abrasives, cars attention is given to such flourishing categories and cartons, shoes and safety glass, tape and as acrylics, anaerobics, cyanoacrylates, poly­ urethanes, epoxy resins, polyvinyl acetate, high tires. This Third Edition of Handbook of Ad­ hesives, like the 1962 and 1977 editions, seeks temperature adhesives, hot melts, silicones, and to provide the knowledge needed for optimum silanes. selection, preparation, and utilization of adhe­ The last 14 chapters, on adherends and bond­ sives and sealants. The information is detailed ing technology, involve the auto industry, air­ and explicit, with several hundred illustrative craft, electronics, the bonding of wood, formulations. textiles, rubber and plastics, construction, ab­ Expert information has been supplied in 47 rasives, pressure-sensitives, nonwovens, and chapters written by 70 industry specialists, pro­ sealants. Mechanical handling of two-compo­ fessors, and consultants. Five chapters on fun­ nent systems is examined. The concluding damentals provide the theoretical and economic chapter highlights the exciting progress that is underpinnings-why adhesives work, how they being made in the use of robotics to apply ad­ are selected, how the surface is prepared, how hesives, techniques already far advanced in au­ they are applied, how they are set, how the tomotive assembly. cured joint is tested.