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Article: Epoxy, acrylic, and urethane adhesives: structural adhesives offer high strength, creep resistance, and reduced weight as reasons for replacing mechanical or fusion fastening.
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- Advanced Materials & Processes
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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From automotive bumpers to disk drive components, bicycle frames to air/fuel breather valves, plastic railings to refrigeration coils, structural adhesives are available for thousands of manufacturing applications. With ongoing advances in adhesive formulation, designers in every industry have diverse options for bonding metal, composites, plastics, rubber, glass, and more. A wide choice of epoxies, acrylics, and urethanes enable design engineers to more easily achieve the right balance of strength, heat resistance, and productivity.
This article describes epoxy, acrylic, and urethane structural adhesives, including their strength, heat properties, creep ...