9. Various industries
We'll look briefly at a few examples that we found particularly instructive.
9.1 Glued bicycle frames
The forerunner was the Bador company, which sought to make racing bikes lighter, while retaining their strength, durability and rigidity.
She then tried to use aluminum tubes, but this metal is difficult to weld.
While other manufacturers were making screw-glued frames, Bador designed and marketed a glued aluminum tube frame in 1980, changing the usual design by using tubes with tapered ends fitted with cast-alloy fittings, themselves tapered, glued with a single-component, heat-setting epoxy glue.
Once assembled, the frame doesn't need to undergo any retouching or finishing treatment....
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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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