Abstract
An increasing number of papers in the field of adhesion have been appearing in Rubber Chemistry & Technology. In the period 1941–1950 twenty-two papers appeared in this Journal covering various aspects of adhesion, whereas in the year 1959 alone eleven papers appear. The Rubber Division Library at the University of Akron has compiled bibliographies as follows: Bibliography # 10, “Use of Synthetic Resins in Natural and Synthetic Rubbers”, covering the period 1930–1952; Bibliography # 18, “Rubber to Metal Bonding”, in two parts, one covering the period 1937–1954 and a supplement covering 1955–1958; and Bibliography #20, “Reclaim Rubber Cements”, covering the period 1927–1954. In addition, special bibliographies were prepared covering the period 1949–1958 on the subjects “Rubber to Wood Adhesives”, “Rubber to Fabric Adhesives”, “Bonding of Polyurethanes”, “Metal to Metal Adhesives”, and “Chemistry of Rubber Adhesives”. The most comprehensive text in the field is “Adhesion and Adhesives” edited by N. A. DeBruyne and R. Houwink. More limited in scope are “Adhesive Bonding of Metals” by Epstein, “Adhesives for Wood” by Knight, “Adhesive Bonding of Reinforced Plastics” by Perry. Also “Rubber to Metal Bonding” by Buchan, which stresses the brass plating technic. Skeist has recently edited a “Handbook of Adhesives”. The Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology contains articles on “Adhesives” in Volume I and the First Supplement Volume. Various symposia have been sources of worthwhile papers on adhesion. The Division of Paint, Plastics, and Printing Ink Chemistry, ACS, published such papers in their preprint booklets, volume XV, No. 1 (1955) and volume XX, No. 1 (1960). Papers given at this division's “Recent Advances in Adhesives” symposium in 1957 are also published. Publication of papers at two symposia held in 1952 (Society of The Chemical Industry, London; Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland) form a valuable collection. Papers from The Second International Congress of Surface Activity in London in 1957 are also published. Papers from a Symposium on Adhesion held by the Society of Rheology in 1959 are published in volume IV of the Society's Transactions. General review articles on adhesion with extensive bibliographies were published as follows : Rinker-Kline “Survey of Adhesives and Adhesion; Kline-Reinhart “Fundamentals of Adhesion”; Brantley-Charnell “Investigation of the Nature of Forces of Adhesion”; Reinhart-Callomon “Survey of Adhesion and Adhesives” and Rutzler “Types of Bonds Involved in Adhesion”. The Reinhart-Callomon survey is quite extensive in its bibliography.
Training in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology