MAE Professor Sridhar Idapalapati and team lead work on implications for debonding process of adhesive joints

Environmentally friendly bonding methods of structures are well known but disassembly techniques of bonded structures have significant drawbacks such as high energy consumption and sacrificing the bonded materials wastefully.

Professor Sridhar Idapalapati and team recently published in Composites Part B (Impact Factor: 9.078) a disassembly method that decreases the overall energy consumption by localized Joule heating and that also eliminates the need to sacrifice the components (e.g. cutting or replacing) after debonding.

Find more details regarding the implications for debonding process of adhesive joints in the following link (open access for 36 days):  https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1eCXS4rCEkgpBC

This work is lead by Professor Sridhar Idapalapati (MAE NTU), Hasan Caglar (NTU MAE PhD Student, lead author), Dr. Mohit Sharma (A*STAR) and Professor Chian Kerm Sin (NTU MAE).