The nature of adhesives

✍ Scribed by Allen, Keith W.

• Book ID: 104527041
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 343 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1641
• DOI: 10.1002/pi.4980110203

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Review of factors which govern the effectiveness of materials as adhesives. Begins with the forces available for adhesion, the roughness of surfaces, and the wetting and flow properties of liquids. Then the necessary phase change is considered and finally these requirements are correlated with actual classes of material.