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For several years, I have been responsible for organizing and
teaching in the fall a short course on "Fundamentals of Adhesion:
Theory, Practice, and Applications" at the State University of New
York at New Paltz. Every spring I would try to assemble the most
pertinent subjects and line up several capable lecturers for the
course. However, there has always been one thing missing-an
authoritative book that covers most aspects of adhesion and
adhesive bonding. Such a book would be used by the participants as
a main reference throughout the course and kept as a sourcebook
after the course had been completed. On the other hand, this book
could not be one of those "All you want to know about" volumes,
simply because adhesion is an interdisciplinary and ever-growing
field. For the same reason, it would be very difficult for a single
individual, especially me, to undertake the task of writing such a
book. Thus, I relied on the principle that one leaves the truly
monumental jobs to experts, and I finally succeeded in asking
several leading scientists in the field of adhesion to write
separate chapters for this collection. Some chapters emphasize
theoretical concepts and others experimental techniques. In the
humble beginning, we planned to include only twelve chapters.
However, we soon realized that such a plan would leave too much
ground uncovered, and we resolved to increase the coverage. After
the book had evolved into thirty chapters, we started to feel that
perhaps our mission had been accomplished.
For several years, I have been responsible for organizing and
teaching in the fall a short course on "Fundamentals of Adhesion:
Theory, Practice, and Applications" at the State University of New
York at New Paltz. Every spring I would try to assemble the most
pertinent subjects and line up several capable lecturers for the
course. However, there has always been one thing missing-an
authoritative book that covers most aspects of adhesion and
adhesive bonding. Such a book would be used by the participants as
a main reference throughout the course and kept as a sourcebook
after the course had been completed. On the other hand, this book
could not be one of those "All you want to know about" volumes,
simply because adhesion is an interdisciplinary and ever-growing
field. For the same reason, it would be very difficult for a single
individual, especially me, to undertake the task of writing such a
book. Thus, I relied on the principle that one leaves the truly
monumental jobs to experts, and I finally succeeded in asking
several leading scientists in the field of adhesion to write
separate chapters for this collection. Some chapters emphasize
theoretical concepts and others experimental techniques. In the
humble beginning, we planned to include only twelve chapters.
However, we soon realized that such a plan would leave too much
ground uncovered, and we resolved to increase the coverage. After
the book had evolved into thirty chapters, we started to feel that
perhaps our mission had been accomplished.
The first of two volumes explaining most aspects of adhesion and
adhesive bonding. Volume one focuses on adhesion with or without
the use of an adhesive and the mechanisms of bond formation; volume
two, Adhesive bonding, will cover adhesives and the forming and
breaking of bonds. The 15 individuall
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