Annotation. Many books and papers have been published on adhesion of materials in general but the topics covered by this book have been selected to cover a wide range of interests, both in terms of products and applications.
This book describes different types of rubber-pad forming processes currently being studied for their experimental and numerical advantages and disadvantages.
This review has been written as a practical approach to bonding various kinds of elastomers to substrates such as steel and plastics, as used in the manufacture of diverse products such as rubber covered rolls, urethane fork lift wheels, ...
Automotive applications of rubber bonding were a key feature of this fifth international conference. There was a keynote address on tyre cord bonding from the world expert, Dr William van Ooij.