The use of adhesive joints has increased rapidly in the past decades. Driven by the growing
demand for lightweight structures, composite adherends have increased in popularity …

Advanced composite materials have gained popularity in high-performance structural
designs such as aerospace applications that require lightweight components with superior …

Adhesives have been used for thousands of years, but until 100 years ago, the vast majority
was from natural products such as bones, skins, fish, milk, and plants. Since about 1900 …

The need to design lightweight structures and the increased use of lightweight materials in
industrial fields, have led to wide use of adhesive bonding. Recent work relating to finite …

The use of adhesive joints is increasing in aerospace, aviation, automotive, construction and
marine industry due to their easily applicable properties, low-costs and light weights …

This book brings value to anyone working with or designing natural fiber composite
structures. It helps readers understand the value these materials can add to projects, how to …

The main objective of this work was to develop an adhesive functionally modified in order to
have mechanical properties that vary gradually along the overlap, allowing a more uniform …

Renewable energy sources such as wind energy—together with energy-efficient
technologies—are essential to meet global energy demands and address climate change …

Adhesive-bonding for the unions in structures is gaining momentum over welding, riveting
and fastening. It is vital for the design of bonded structures the availability of reliable damage …

The objective of this work was to study the influence of the macroscopic state of the substrate
surface on the strength of adhesive joints. For that, several patterns were made on the …