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5. Automotive
5.1 Benefits and history of bonding
The first metal bonding operations in the automotive industry were the bonding of stiffeners to the inside of hoods, starting in 1954.
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In the past, these stiffeners were spot-welded, but this had three disadvantages:
multiple spot welding (dozens for a hood) required highly complex and expensive machines with dozens of electrodes to weld a hood on a chain in a single operation;
the weld marks on the outer sheets meant that they had to be coated before painting to achieve a perfect surface finish;
the welding points, more or less spaced out, didn't provide perfect stiffening, and the sheets...
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Bibliography
References
Technical data
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Technical data for anaerobic adhesives (table 2 )
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Bonding trends in the aerospace and automotive industries
Highlights of bonding applications in the aerospace and automotive sectors are shown in figures 1 and
Standardization
French Standards Association (Afnor)
- Adhesives – Preparation of metal supports for laboratory test specimens. - NF T76-201 - 12-82
- Structural adhesives – Permanent shear strength tests. - NF T76-122 - 05-85
- Structural adhesives – Shear method for determining the stress-strain curve of an adhesive in a bonded...
Suppliers
(non-exhaustive list)
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Suppliers of adhesives and related products for metal bonding
VANTICO (ex CIBA-GEIGY): brands ARALDITE Ò (epoxy adhesives), EPOCAST Ò (syntactic adhesives and reinforcing pastes) EPIBOND Ò...
Organizations
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Centre technique des industries mécaniques (CETIM)
Saint-Étienne facility specializing in mechanical and adhesive assemblies (testing and implementation of bonded assemblies). http://www.cetim.fr
Centre technique de l'aluminium...
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