Design-bites - Illustrated product design booklets by Andrew Taylor

Product description

An illustrated guide to joining techniques in plastics, metal, wood and ceramics. Major sections cover adhesive joining, mechanical fasteners (threaded and miscellaneous fasteners), and melt joining (welding, brazing and soldering). Contains design guidelines, example applications, and extensive data tables.

62 pages                file size 1.5 MB

Booklet content

J1: Adhesives

• Adhesive selection. Quick reference adhesive selector.
• Adhesive bonding. Advantages and disadvantages of adhesive bonding.
• Terminology
• General classification of adhesives
• Adhesives for wood and wood composites. Wood adhesives. 
• Engineering adhesives for metal, plastics and ceramics.
• Metal adhesives, bonding metal, bonding plastics.
• Glass adhesives, ceramic adhesives.
• Adhesive joint design. 
• Surface preparation, bonding difficult materials
• Calculations for the design of lap joints
• Table of 35 adhesives, with adhesive properties and applications.
• Solvent welding of plastics (polymers).

J1b: Solvents tables

• Table of 40 common industrial solvents used in adhesives
• Solvents for solvent welding of plastics
• Solvent properties and applications for industry, studio and model-shop

J2: Welding, Brazing, Soldering

• Soldering versus brazing. 
• Soft solder, eutectic point, selected solders and international equivalent solders. 
• Brazing. Brazing fillers and silver solder (silver brazing), selected grades and international equivalents.
• Design for Welding,
• Spot welding, seam welding, stud welding, projection welding
• Arc welding, MIG and TIG welding
• Gas flame welding (Gas welding).

J3: Fasteners. Mechanical fasteners.

• Selection criteria for mechanical fasteners
• Fasteners for wood. Wood screws, wood nails, pins, staples
• Woodscrews. Data tables, wood screw size, wood screw pilot hole sizes. 
• Pronged nuts and cam studs for wood composites
• Threaded fasteners for metal and plastics
• International thread forms and designations
• ISO metric thread, BA thread, UNC threads, Unified thread, UNF UNC, data tables
• Screw head types, wrench styles, and torque limits
• Threaded inserts for wood, metal and plastics
• Thread locking, captive fasteners
• Self tapping screws and Spire clips
• Rivets, riveting patterns, staking, eyelets, clinching
• Pop rivets, drive rivets, pins, push fasteners, circlips
• Velcro, Hook and loop fasteners, Magnets
• Quarter turn fasteners, pawl latch, toggle latch

Includes www links to further resources, organizations and suppliers.

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