Test Name Bond Strength Testing

Principle A bond test is used to determine the ability of an adhesive to remain in

contact with a surface or material while under stress or the adhesive’s
ability to hold together two materials as they are stressed. The bond
itself is tested after it has been applied and allowed to cure by either
applying a force directly to the adhesive in an attempt to remove it
from the material or by attempting to separate to materials to have
been connected to each other by the adhesive. The force is then either
steadily increased or remains constant and is applied to the bond until
it fails.
Methodology There are many different types of bond testing, but the most commonly
performed are tensile, shear and peel testing with torsional, impact,
and pull-off tests performed less often. Each bond test is used to
determine the adhesives bond strength in a given direction or under a
given type of stress. Nearly all bond testing will take one of two forms.
Either the adhesive will be applied to the surface of a material as a
type of coating and the adhesives’ bond strength is determined to be
its ability to remain in contact with the material while under stress or
the adhesive is applied between two rigid substrates and its bond
strength is determined as its ability to hold the two substrates together
while under stress.
Scope  Adhesive Peel Stripping Strength of Bonds
 Axially Loaded Butt Joint Test of Adhesives
 Bond Strength Thermal Spray Coating Test Equipment
 How to determine bond test machine requirements
 Dental Adhesive & Material Tensile Adhesion Bond Strength
 Bond Strength Testing of Plastics
 Bond Strength Testing of Cement
 Bond Strength Testing between an Adhesive and Metal
 Plastic Pipe and Pipe Welds Testing

Applicable  ASTM A944 Bond Strength Steel Reinforcement Rebar Test

standard
Machine
 ASTM A981 Bond Strength of Steel Ground Anchors - Test
Machines
 ASTM C198 Cold Bonding Refractory Mortar Test Equipment
 ASTM C321 Bond Strength Mortars Test Equipment and
Solutions
 ASTM D429 - Rubber to Metal Adhesion Test Equipment
 ASTM D897 Tensile Strength Test Equipment for Metal to
Metal Adhesive Bonds
 ASTM D903 180 degree Peel Strip Strength of Adhesive
Bonds
 ASTM D905 Wood Adhesive Bonds in Shear by Compression
Loading
 ASTM D1002 Lap Shear Testing for Adhesively Bonded
Metals
 ASTM D3762 Adhesive-Bonded Surface Durability of
Aluminum (Wedge Test)
 ASTM D4501 Block Shear Strength Testing Equipment for
Adhesive Bonds Between Rigid Substrates
 ASTM D4884 Strength of Sewn or Thermally Bonded Seams
of Geotextiles
 ASTM D5041 Fracture Strength in Cleavage of Adhesives in
Bonded Joints
 ASTM D6496 Bonding Peel Strength Between the Top and
Bottom Layers of Needle-Punched Geosynthetic Clay Liners
 ASTM D7005 Bond Strength (Ply Adhesion) of Geocomposites
 ASTM F2724 Knee Dislocation Test Equipment