Book excerpt: This book provides an exhaustive range of detailed, easy-access information required to initiate or improve an adhesive bonding operation in a modern industrial environment. Featuring recent developments and more than 400 photos, figures, and tables, this practical reference is the most comprehensive up-to-date book available. Designed for engineers and technicians confronting everyday problems of selections, surface preparation, applications, and curing, this book progresses from fundamental concepts to all types of adhesives, bonding techniques, and performance, durability, and testing of bonds, including such areas as acrylic and urethan adhesives, and water-based systems.