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Surface Treatments of Selected Materials

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Proper treatment of an adherend surface is one of the most important factors in assuring high initial strength and extended durability of high-performance adhesive joints. There are several requirements for a good surface preparation: (1) The surface must be cleaned of any contamination or loosely bound material that would interfere with the adhesive bond. (2) The adhesive or primer must wet the adherend surface. (3) The surface preparation must enable and promote the formation of chemical and/or physical bonds across the adherend/primer–adhesive interface. (4) The interface/interphase must be stable under the service conditions for the lifetime of the bonded structure. (5) The surface formed by the treatment must be reproducible. In this chapter, high-performance surface treatments for several metals and other materials are discussed. Surface treatments of aluminum and other metals are used to illustrate how proper surface preparations meet these requirements.

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    Guy D. Davis

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  3. Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Robert D. Adams

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Davis, G.D. (2017). Surface Treatments of Selected Materials. In: da Silva, L., Öchsner, A., Adams, R. (eds) Handbook of Adhesion Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42087-5_8-2

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