Adhesive Performance on Thermoset Plastics

In this section, a guide is given to indicate the performance of several different adhesives for a selection of six thermoset plastics. 

The bulk of this information was taken from The Loctite Design Guide for Bonding Plastics issued by Henkel Ltd [3] and for more detailed information the reader should refer to this guide. 

The nine different adhesives selected for these charts were as follows  

A brief description of each adhesive is given together with a few general comments on the overall performance of the adhesives. 

The alkoxy silicone often showed a strength of 1.4 N/mm for many of the plastics tested but in this case the adhesive has failed cohesively. A silicone adhesive is often 

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