Testing Adhesive Joints: Best Practices

by Lucas F.M. da Silva (Editor), David A. Dillard (Editor), Bamber Blackman (Editor), Robert D. Adams (Editor)

Overview

Joining techniques such as welding, brazing, riveting and screwing are used by industry all over the world on a daily basis. A further method of joining has also proven to be highly successful: adhesive bonding. Adhesive bonding technology has an extremely broad range of applications. And it is difficult to imagine a product - in the home, in industry, in transportation, or anywhere else for that matter - that does not use adhesives or sealants in some manner. The book focuses on the methodology used for fabricating and testing adhesive and bonded joint specimens. The text covers a wide range of test methods that are used in the field of adhesives, providing vital information for dealing with the range of adhesive properties that are of interest to the adhesive community. With contributions from many experts in the field, the entire breadth of industrial laboratory examples, utilizing different best practice techniques are discussed. The core concept of the book is to provide essential information vital for producing and characterizing adhesives and adhesively bonded joints.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783527647040
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/22/2012
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	468
File size:	22 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Dr. Lucas F.M. da Silva is Head of the Materials and Technological Groupat Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. His research focuses on adhesive bonding. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1996 and his Master of Science from the same institution in 1999. He received a PhD related to adhesive bonding in 2004 from the University of Bristol (UK) under the supervision of Prof. R.D. Adams. He has published 6 books, approximately 50 ISI journal papers and more than 50 papers in proceedings of conferences. He is member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives and Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, and reviewer of 12 international journals.

Prof. David A. Dillard is the Adhesive and Sealant Science Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, having received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and his PhD from Virginia Tech. With industrial experience at McDonnell Douglas prior to entering graduate school, he has also worked during summers and sabbaticals at General Motors, NASA (Langley and Ames), National Taiwan University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. With over 30 years of experience in adhesive bonding he regularly teaches academic courses in viscoelasticity, adhesion science, and sustainability, and has co-authored over 135 refereed journal articles and several book chapters. He served for five years as Director of the Center for Adhesive and Sealant Science and served as Founding Director of Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, both at Virginia Tech. He recently completed a term as President of the Adhesion Society, in which he is a Robert L. Patrick Fellow, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Adhesion.

Bamber R.K. Blackman is a Reader in the Mechanics of Materials in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is author to over 50 refereed papers and book chapters in the area of structural adhesives and composites and has presented his research to a wide international arena. He received an 'Elsevier most cited author award? in 2009 for an original research contribution on mode II fracture mechanics of adhesive joints. He chaired the US Adhesion Society?s Structural Adhesives Division from 2006-2008 and has served as guest editor to the international journal, Engineering Fracture Mechanics on three occasions and has sat on the Scientific Advisory Committees for several leading international conferences. He is a chartered mechanical engineer and chaired the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Structural Materials and Technology Group from 2008-2010. He is secretary to the European Structural Integrity Society?s technical committee on 'Polymers, Composites and Adhesives? (ESIS TC4) where he leads the structural adhesives activity. His research interests include the effects of test rate and environmental ageing on the performance of adhesively-bonded fibre composite materials, the effects of impact and blast loading on engineering structures, the effects of surface treatments, the development of fracture mechanics test standards for adhesive joints. He was a keynote speaker at the 4th World Congress on Adhesion and Related Phenomena (WCARP-IV) in Arcachon, France in September 2010 and was a plenary speaker at the US Adhesion Society Annual Conference in New Orleans in Feb 2012.

Prof. Robert D. Adams is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Mechanics at the University of Bristol and a Visiting Professor of the University of Oxford. He started his academic career some 35 years ago and his work covers a wide range of topics. He is one of the most respected researchers in the field of mechanics of adhesively bonded joints. He has pioneered the use of finite element analysis from the early 1970s. He is Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, which has curren

Table of Contents

MANUFACTURE OF QUALITY SPECIMENS
Preparing Bulk Specimens by Hydrostatic Pressure
Preparing Bulk Specimens by Injection
Preparing Bulk Specimens by Pouring
Preparing Lap Joints with Flat Adherends
SimpleMethods for the Preparation of Single Lap Joints Specimens
Preparing Thick Adherend Shear Test Specimens
Modified Thick Adherend Shear Test
Preparing Butt Joints
Preparing Napkin Ring Specimens
Preparing T Joint Specimens
Preparing Flexible-to-Rigid Peel Specimens
Preparing Specimens for Fracture Properties: Double Cantilever Beam and Tapered Double Cantilever Beam
Preparing Bonded Wood Double Cantilever Beam (DCB)
Specimens
Modified Arcan Test

QUASI-STATIC CONSTITUTIVE AND STRENGTH TESTS
Quasi-Static Testing of Bulk Tensile Specimens
Uniaxial and Bulk Compression
Quasi-Static Testing of Bulk Compression on Flat Specimens
Iosipescu (V-Notched Beam) Test
Arcan (V-Notched Plate) Test
Quasi-Static Testing of Butt Joints in Tension
Shear Properties of Adhesives Measured by Napkin Rings and Solid Butt Joints in Torsion
Quasi-Static Testing of Thick Adherend Shear Test Specimens
Modified Thick Adherend Shear Test
Quasi-Static Testing of Lap Joints
Modified Arcan Test
Pin-and-Collar Test Method

QUASI-STATIC FRACTURE TESTS
Measuring Bulk Fracture Toughness
Quasi-Static Fracture Tests: Double Cantilever Beam and Tapered Double Cantilever Beam Testing
End-Notched Flexure
Mode II Fracture Characterization of Bonded Joints Using the ELS Test
The Notched Torsion Test to Determine the Mode III Fracture Properties of Adhesives
Other Mixed Mode Adhesive Fracture Test Specimens
Compact Mixed Mode (CMM) Fracture Test Method
Mixed Mode Bending (MMB) with a Reeder and Crews Fixture
Mixed Mode Fracture Testing
Fracture of Wood Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) Specimens
The T-Peel Test
Peel Testing at 180?
The Floating Roller Peel Test
Climbing Drum Peel Test
The Analysis of Peel Tests

HIGHER RATE AND IMPACT TESTS
Dynamic Elastic Modulus
The Pendulum Impact Test for Adhesives and Adhesive Joints
Higher Rate and Impact Tests: Fracture at High Rates
High-Strain-Rate Testing of Adhesive Specimens and Joints by Hopkinson Bar Technique
Clamped Hopkinson Bar
Testing of Adhesive Bonds under Peel and Shear Loads at Increased Velocities

DURABILITY
Measurement of the Diffusion Coefficient
Tests with Moisture
Durability Testing Using Open-Faced Specimens
Tests with Temperature
The Wedge Test
Fatigue
Mixed-Mode Fatigue Testing of Adhesive Joints
Measurement of Time-Dependent Crack Growth
Curvature Mismatch Fracture Test for Subcritical Debonding

OTHER TEST METHODS
Thermal Characterization
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis with a Vibrating Beam Method
Bimaterial Curvature Method for Residual Stress and Thermal Expansion Coefficient Determination
The Pull-Off Test
Shaft-Loaded Blister Test
Tests under Hydrostatic Pressure

INDEX