Adhesion and Surface Modifications, 5 cr

Core content

• Main factors affecting adhesive bonds at material interfaces
• Surface characteristics: Wetting and surface energy
  
• Importance of adhesion to material performance
• Concepts of crack, fracture and delamination
• Understands scientific thinking, reasoning and explanation

Complementary knowledge

• The student is able to solve possible adhesion problems in different production processes and can predict functionality of materials in terms of adhesion at bonds.
• Contact angle measurements
• Specific surface treatment and modification methods (e.g. corona, flame, plasma, chemical modification (primers, adhesion promoters), peening)
  
• Numerical models for bond failure
  

Specialist knowledge

• DIfferent models of surface energy determination
• Surface treatment devices
• Nonlinearity of materials, dissipation (damage)
• Knows the risks associated with digital environments and takes them into account in his/her own actions