ADHESIVES AND SEALANTS General Knowledge, Application Techniques, New Curing Techniques Handbook of Adhesives and Sealants Volume 2 S E ERIES DITOR P C HILIPPE OGNARD Versailles, France Amsterdam – Boston – Heidelberg – London – New York – Oxford Paris – San Diego – San Francisco – Singapore – Sydney – Tokyo ELSEVIER B.V. ELSEVIER Inc. ELSEVIER Ltd ELSEVIER Ltd Radarweg 29 525 B Street, Suite 1900 The Boulevard, Langford Lane 84 Theobald’s Road P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE San Diego, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB UK London, WCIX 8RR UK Amsterdam, The Netherlands CA 92101-4495, USA © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd., and the following terms and conditions apply to its use: Photocopying Single Photocopies of single chapters may be made for personal use as allowed by national copyright laws. 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Notice No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liabil- ity, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. First edition 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-08-044708-7 ISBN-10: 0-080-44708-2 Printed in Great Britain. 06 07 08 09 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Color Plates xxvii Adhesive bonded laminate and stringers Adhesive bonded laminate Adhesive bonded metal sandwich Fibre reinforced plastic FOKKER F27–FRIENDSHIP Plate 1: Many aircraft parts are bonded with high performance adhesives, on this FOKKER F27 as well as on the Airbus A380. Plate 2: Roll water for laminating unit (by courtesy of Faustel USA). xxviii Color Plates Dispensing Dispensing Joining Illuminating Illuminating Joining Curing Curing Irradiation by permeable/ Pre-activation by impermeable/ transparent join partner opaque join partners Plate 3: UV curing of an adhesive for laminates (source DELO Germany). Plate 4: Dispensing of hot melt adhesives with jetting guns (source Robatech). Color Plates xxix Sealing of automotive head lamps (bonding plastic lens to plastic casing) Sealing of cathode ray tube connector Applying silicone Bonding speaker adhesive to the door of a microwave oven Sealing of IC chips Casting silicone Applying adhesive to electronic to ballast of parts on PCB fluorescent lamps Plate 5: Syringe dispenser applications (by courtesy of Fisnar). Plate 6: Hand gun for two-component adhesives with static mixer (TAH Industries, USA). xxx Color Plates Plate 7: Hand spraying of a fluid adhesive from a 20 l pressure pot (source Kremlin). Color Plates xxxi 1) STATIONARY TWIN-POST RAM Automatic dispensing Air lines Manual dispensing 2) STATIONARY SINGLE-POST RAM ...Stationary system ...Cart-mounted system 1 Material drum 2 Ram with drum centering clamps and air controls 3 Follower plate with a purge and vent 4 Pump 5 Bleed and pressure valve relief 6 Main air line shut-off valve 7 Shut-off and bleed air valve 8 High-pressure hose (large diameter) 9 High pressure hose (smaller diameter, flexible) 10 Swivel 11 Dispensing valve 12 Dispense tip 13 Ground 14 Adaptor 15 Air supply hose 16 Fluid pressure regulator 17 Material filter 18 Air filter 19 High-pressure shut-off valve 20 Pump outlet Plate 8: High production rate spraying installations with 200 l drum ram and follower plate (source Rexson). xxxii Color Plates Plate 9: Graco Swirl spraying with ‘Precision Swirl’gun on the roof of an automotive (source Graco Belgium). Plate 10: Roller Coater (by courtesy of Bürkle Germany). Color Plates xxxiii Plate 11: Faustel Roll Coater. Plate 12: Burkle EFA 12 laminating machine (by courtesy of Bürkle Germany). xxxiv Color Plates Plate 13: Cartridge style coater showing a slot die coating cartridge – mainly used for water based PSA adhesive. Plate 14: Stencil wheel applicator working with hot melt adhesive (RA 80 wheel applicator from Nordson) width upto 800 mm (by courtesy Nordson).