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SOLVING ADHESIVE QUALITY ISSUES: A PROPOSED ROADMAP TO THE ANSWER

Michael Bradshaw, Chemist, Chemsultants International, Mentor, OH

Troubleshooting adhesive failures can be overwhelming with the plethora of variables that are directly related to or at least contributing factors of failure. It can be easy to miss the forest for the trees and vice versa. This paper proposes a “roadmap” to aid the investigator in narrowing the window of potential variables to those most likely few (see Figure 1). At that stage, it is up to the investigator to perform experiments to exclude the non-contributing possibilities.