A University of Delaware professor is drawing inspiration from shellfish to develop resilient adhesives for affordable housing and next-generation infrastructure. Jovan Tatar, an assistant professor ...

A major advancement in structural adhesives for the automotive industry has been developed by researchers at Nagoya University. This next-generation adhesive promises to revolutionize material bonding ...

Nearly every industry uses adhesives in some way, shape, or form. However, transportation industries—including aerospace, automotive, and marine manufacturers—are leading the pack in adopting the ...

Fasteners always will have a place in manufacturing assembly, but one of the Holy Grails of composites manufacturing is adhesive joinery that eliminates mechanical fasteners. Relieved of fastener ...

Structural adhesives make mechanical fixings like screws and bolts obsolete. These methods for joining typically require an extra production step—drilling a hole—and that hole has the potential to ...

As they do in automotive, marine and other industrial markets (see “Part I,” via Learn More located under "Editor's Picks" on the top right), structural adhesives play an important part in aerospace ...

PRESS RELEASE -- ClassNK has released its Guidelines for Use of Structural Adhesives for the shipbuilding industry. Compared with other joining methods such as welding, structural adhesives are easy ...

Advanced adhesives can improve the design of joints and the assembly of disposable and reusable medical devices. A few of the more widely used joint designs for adhesively bonding similar and ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. A long list of adhesives has been developed to meet and exceed engineers’ process and performance needs, including ...

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors are now building cars the same way kids make their plastic model counterparts: They are gluing them together. The automakers aren’t cutting corners to reduce costs.