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PABST programme

It has often been observed that the application of adhesives to metal fabrication, in common with many other technological innovations, was pioneered by the aircraft industry. It is ironic that this industry, in which safety and reliability command paramount attention, should lead the departure from traditional methods of joining. Today adhesives are used to bond critical parts in commercial and military aircraft and helicopters, spacecraft, rockets, missiles and the US Space Shuttle. The American Primary Adhesively Bonded Structure Technology (PABST) Programme, which ran from 1976-81, was an imaginative attempt to advance significantly the use of bonded... [Pg.9]

The PABST programme is an imaginatively conceived and typically American attempt to advance significantly the use of bonded stmctures in aircraft. The acronym is derived from Primary Adhesively Bonded Structures Technology and the programme is based on the development of a section, 42 ft long, of a particular transport aircraft... [Pg.279]

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