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Have you ever wondered how to control adhesive bondline thickness or the best way to bond aluminium? Perhaps you have considered designing a bonded joint for subsequent disassembly but didn't know how? Or have you wanted to know if adhesives can be used in surgery instead of stitches? The answers to all these questions and many others can be found on TWI's JoinIT website as a result of a DTI funded initiative carried out by TWI. A full list of the content with appropriate links is provided in the table below.

Access will require registration to the JoinIT web-site but as with the Toolkit, this is free and should take no more than a minute of your time.

BEST PRACTICE GUIDES
Assembly tooling for adhesive bonding, including jigs and fixtures - a guide to best practice
A guide to surface analysis techniques (currently unavailable)
A guide to adhesives in medical applications
Determining the mechanical properties of adhesive materials - a guide to best practice
Adhesive joint failures: why they occur and how to investigate them - a guide to best practice
Solvent welding - a brief guide to process principles and operation


KNOWLEDGE SUMMARIES
Methods for measuring strain in adhesive materials
Methods for analysing the mechanical performance of adhesive joints
Key surface qualities for adhesive bonding
Advantages and limitations of adhesives
Adhesives in medical applications
Bonding to glass using organic adhesives
Adhesive bonding of aluminium and its alloys
Thermo-mechanical properties of adhesive materials
How water diffusion affects adhesive joints
Silicon containing adhesives
Adhesive bonding to aluminium and its alloys - an overview of pre-treatments
Adhesive bonding to aluminium and its alloys - pre-treatments involving non-mechanical removal of surface contaminants
Adhesive bonding to aluminium and its alloys - pre-treatments involving abrasion
Adhesive bonding to aluminium and its alloys - chemical processing pre-treatments
Adhesive bonding to aluminium and its alloys - primer pre-treatments
Radiation curing of adhesives
Cure monitoring of adhesives
Disassembly of adhesive joints
Glossary of terms associated with adhesive bonding


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What stress-strain behaviour can I expect adhesives to have?
Who supplies adhesives that can be applied and cured underwater?
I would like to undertake an experimental design analysis of my adhesive bonding operation. What process variables should I use?
What are the minimum requirements for surface preparation prior to adhesive bonding?
How does one approach conducting a design of experiments?
What are pressure sensitive adhesives?
What is solvent welding?
'Glue' or 'adhesive' - which term should I use?
When I purchase an adhesive, will the supplier provide me with information on how to use it?
What is the adhesives design toolkit?
What options are there for mixing and dispensing reactive adhesives?
What are biocompatible adhesives? (Not available)
What sort of adhesives are used for medical/surgical applications?
What is a structural adhesive?
Can I get a good joint when bonding to coated steels?
What are biodegradable adhesives?
What is the "surface energy" of a material, and how can it be determined?
What shear tests exist for adhesive materials?
Why are tests need to obtain the mechanical properties of adhesives?
What standards exist for shear testing of adhesives?
What is meant by wetting and how can it be used?
What treatments exist for altering the surface energy of a material?
What are typical values of surface energy of materials and adhesives?
What are the factors that will affect durability and lifetime of an adhesive joint?
What is 'accelerated aging' testing of adhesive joints?
How can I get a good adhesive bond to glass?
What surface pre-treatment should I use for bonding aluminium alloys?
Can water permeation be used to predict the life of an adhesively bonded joint?
Why cure adhesives using ultraviolet (UV) radiation?
What is the contact angle?
Why do adhesives stick?
Can I bond TeflonŽ?


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