Adhesives Technology Handbook, 3rd Edition

Preface to Third Edition

Sina Ebnesajjad

Chadds Ford, PA

This is a book written primarily for practitioners working with adhesives, bonding materials and parts together, and testing the adhered parts. The third edition, like the second edition, covers various adhesives and their use with metallic and nonmetalic parts. This book does not set out to cover the latest developments in adhesives as published in journals or variation of formulations. Rather it focuses of the needs of the classes of commercial adhesives and using them for manufacturing parts and components. Secondarily, theoretical and scientific topics related to adhesives/adhesion have been covered, albeit briefly, to ensure that the book is useful to the readers interested in those ...