Department of Materials

Frequency: Once per Year

Duration: 4 Days

Date of next course: Autumn 2012 TBC

Venue: Loughborough University, Keith Green Building

Cost: 2012 prices not yet confirmed (for guidence 2011 prices were £1150 (£1050 for IOM3 and BPF members))

Accommodation:  Not included.

Recommended convenient hotels: Burleigh Court or The Link

Other Information:
Lunches for short course delegates are included, however short course delegates study alongside full-time MSc students and need to organise their own light refreshments outside of lunchtimes.

Description

Adhesive Bonding is an intensive course taught over a four day period comprising lectures, case studies and discussions with lecturers. This course is designed for people across a wide range of industrial sectors, dealing with adhesion and adhesive bonding.
The course is relevant to those in industry who need both fundamental and applied knowledge in this field. It is particularly suited to process and design engineers and technologists involved with high performance applications who want to acquire additional technical knowledge in this specialised field

For further information:

Administrative:
Martin White
Telephone: (0) 1509 228592
Email: m.e.white@lboro.ac.uk

Technical:
Gary Critchlow
Telephone: (0) 1509 222949
Email: g.w.critchlow@lboro.ac.uk

This event has been recognised by the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining for PD.

‘Professional development is the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skill, and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional, managerial and technical duties throughout the practitioner’s working life.’

Disclaimer - Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the details of this course are accurate, Loughborough University Department of Materials reserves the right to alter the course content and/or lecturers if the need should arise.

The aim of this course is to provide knowledge of the underlying principles of adhesion and an understanding of how methods of joining materials together with adhesives can be optimised to maximise bond strength and longevity.

The course covers all the important aspects of adhesive bonding science and technology, including: adhesion theories; surface characterisation; surface pretreatment; thermodynamics.

Specific technologies covered include: structural and non-structural adhesion; sealants; formulations; mechanisms of drying/solidification; joining methods and joint configurations; bond strength testing; failure analysis; applications.

In this way you and your company will benefit from being able to:

Choose appropriate adhesives for specific applications

• Choose the appropriate surface pretreatments for specific applications
• Understand the relationship between structure and fundamental adhesion properties of adhesives and adherends
• Assess the adhesion behaviour of materials
• Use basic tests to determine surface adhesion properties of materials
• Participate more fully in your development projects
• Confidently discuss and identify requirements with suppliers, customers and workplace colleagues

Throughout the week you will have ample opportunity to clarify these issues and your specific interests in one-to-one free-time discussions with the lecturers. Our main aim is to give you the knowledge, understanding and confidence that you need to develop your role within your company.

Day 1

• Molecular Forces and Adhesion.
• Aspects of Adhesives.
• Surface Preparation of Non-Metals.
• Surface Preparation of Metals and Durability.

Day 2

• Primers and Coupling Agents.
• Non-Structural Adhesives.
• Structural Adhesives.
• Case Studies.
• Contact Angle Measurements and Adhesion.

Day 3

• Surface Analysis and Related Techniques Applied to Adhesion.
• Scanning Probe Microscopy.

Day 4

• Rubber to Metal Bonding – An Introduction.
• Rubber to Metal Bonding – Latest Technological Developments.
• Predicting Failure in Bonded Structures.

Case studies relating real-life activities to the lecture content are scattered throughout the week in areas such as automotive and aerospace bonding.

Note: Course information subject to change due to unavoidable circumstances

The lecturers are both from within Loughborough University and external, all of whom have extensive experience in the industrial application of adhesives and adhesion. In this way we ensure that the key elements relevant to industry are brought out and developed.

Gary Critchlow – Course Organiser and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Loughborough University. He has over 20 years involvement in adhesion and surface modification technologies and is the sole or co-author of over 60 journal papers concerning adhesion, adhesives and surface engineering and many studies focus on the relationship between surface condition and structural adhesion performance. Dr Critchlow is currently engaged in a number of industrial consultancies and large scale fundamental research programmes in this area.

Ian Ashcroft – Reader in the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University. He previously spent five years as a Senior Scientist at DERA. Current research interests include: the fatigue and fracture of adhesives and composites, characterisation and modelling of damage in adhesives composites and other polymeric materials, and; micro-mechanical evaluation of materials.

Ali Ansarifar – Lecturer in Polymer Engineering in the Department of Materials , with particular interest in, Rubbers: fillers, adhesion, fracture and fatigue, rubber to metal and rubber to nylon bonding. Extensive research and industrial collaboration portfolio with 68 publications to date.

John Bishopp – MD of Star Adhesion Ltd. has spent over forty years as a research and development chemist studying adhesion and the formulation of structural adhesives, involving the development of adhesives across many applications, but especially within the aerospace, automotive and sports goods industries. Achievements include: formulating novel adhesives for the bonding of friction materials: ultra-high temperature adhesives for aerospace applications, and, the introduction of novel toughening techniques into epoxy-based adhesives.

Derek Brewis – became involved in adhesion when he joined ICI in 1964. From 1967 onwards he pursued his academic career at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University) but maintained his interest in aspects of adhesion through collaborations with ICI, BP and the UK MoD. He is internationally-recognised for his studies on the pretreatment of plastics and elastomers having over 100 publications in these areas..

John Comyn – Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Materials at Loughborough University, having previously taught at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University) for 22 years, Dr Comyn is now a consultant in adhesive bonding and joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Adhesion & Adhesives.

David Grandy – Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Materials, has over ten years' experience in using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) in the analysis of surface properties and has been instrumental in the development of nanoscale thermal analysis and thermal imaging. Prior to this he worked as a Materials Engineer in the construction of rail vehicles and was heavily involved in the development and application of adhesive bonding processes.

Barrie Hayes – Consultant, enjoyed a long career with Ciba(ARL). Since retirement he still works with Ciba, Vantico and Gurit and lectures annually at over 50 universities. In 2008 he won the de Bruyne medal in recognition of his personal contribution to innovation in the field of adhesives and related technology. During his career Dr. Hayes has worked in many areas of adhesion and adhesive formulation, including: civil engineering; high performance film and liquid adhesives for aerospace aluminium and Nomex honeycomb, and; development of new generation materials, which now dominate in high performance prepregs, and; epoxy and polyurethane formulations used for adhesives, tooling, laminating and matrix resins.

Ian Sutherland – Senior Lecturer in Physical and Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Loughborough University. His recent interests include: the study of polymer surfaces and interfaces, topics investigated include: migratory additivies; surface treatments and adhesion at polymer interfaces, and the use of electrochemically generated reagents in the activation of polymer surfaces for adhesion; i nterfaces in polymer composites, systems studied include surface coatings for Mg(OH) 2 and CaCO 3 fillers for polyolefins, surface chemistry of carbon fibre and the effect of additives on the carbon black/rubber interface.