What phenomena are involved in an assembly?

In your design project, one or more stages involve assembly. Would you like to understand the phenomena involved so you can better control the process?

This fact sheet, the first in a series dedicated to assembly, gives you the essentials of the preliminary concepts you need to master. It is deliberately broad in scope, so that it can be applied to all materials and technologies.

You'll know :

• identify the key parameters involved in assembly;

• understand why an adhesive adheres to a substrate ;

• recognize substrate wettability and adhesive compatibility.