Structural adhesives. Recent advances in structural adhesives.

Recent Advances in Nanostructured Biomimetic Dry Adhesives

The relatively large size of the gecko and its ability to climb a multitude of structures with ease has often been cited as the inspiration upon which the field of dry adhesives is based. Since 2010, there have been many advances in the field of dry adhesives with much of the new research focusing on developing nanoscale and hierarchical features in a concentrated effort to develop synthetic ge...

Durability of structural adhesives in bridges Master Project DURABILITY OF STRUCTURAL ADHESIVES IN BRIDGES

Advances and opportunities in soft adhesives

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Structural and tribometric characterization of biomimetically inspired synthetic "insect adhesives"

Background: Based on previous chemical analyses of insect tarsal adhesives, we prepared 12 heterogeneous synthetic emulsions mimicking the polar/non-polar principle, analysed their microscopical structure and tested their adhesive, frictional, and rheological properties. Results: The prepared emulsions varied in their consistency from solid rubber-like, over soft elastic, to fluid (watery or oi...

Recent Advances in Structural Optimization

In this paper we present the main directions of research in Structural Convex Optimization. In this field, we use additional information on the structure of specific problem instances for accelerating standard Black-Box methods. We show that the proper use of problem structure can provably accelerate these methods by the order of magnitudes. As examples, we consider polynomialtime interior-poin...