
6. Other transport
6.1 Railways
It's a heavy industry that hasn't yet paid much attention to weight, and therefore uses almost exclusively traditional mechanical and metal construction techniques.
Since 1985-1990, however, more modern adhesive bonding techniques have been introduced:
floors for double-decker commuter trains, regional express trains, partitions and floors for trans-Manche shuttles made of 4 mm-thick aluminum sheet sandwiches glued to aluminum honeycombs, bonded with epoxy films curing in 30 min at 150°C;
roof pavilions bonded to the body using two-component, cold-curing epoxy adhesives;
TGV honeycomb sandwich doors (for motorized rapid opening) ;...
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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
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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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