Surface Preparation to ensure a good Adhesive Bond

NIC Webinar: Getting it right – The importance of surface preparation to ensure a good adhesive bond

Surface pre-treatment the key to getting a good adhesive bond. This webinar will explore the many options available for effective pre-treatment, the consequences of not getting it right and the outcomes of some work that TWI has been involved with, where the goal was to create the perfect invisible defect! The ability to produce such defects in a controlled stable way is an important first step towards then developing NDT capabilities to detect them.

Meet the team

Dr Ewen Kellar

Consultant, Advanced Composites and Adhesives

Dr Ewen Kellar has been working in the field of adhesive technology for over 30 years, with the majority of this time being based at TWI where he has worked in almost every industrial sector and with countless applications, helping clients with their bonding requirements. He is now TWI consultant in adhesive technology with active interests in surface preparation, plasma pre-treatments, spectroscopy, mechanical testing and failure investigation.