Structural Adhesive Joints

Kashmiri Lal Mittal was employed by the IBM Corporation from 1972 through 1993. Currently, he is teaching and consulting worldwide in the broad areas of adhesion as well as surface cleaning. He has received numerous awards and honors including the title of doctor honoris causa from Maria Curie-Sk??odowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is the editor of more than 130 books dealing with adhesion measurement, adhesion of polymeric coatings, polymer surfaces, adhesive joints, adhesion promoters, thin films, polyimides, surface modification surface cleaning, and surfactants. Dr. Mittal is also the Founding Editor of the journal Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives. S. K. Panigrahi (PhD, IIT Kharagpur) is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India. He has worked as an International Visiting Academic with University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). He has more than 27 year of wide and intensive teaching, research, training and administrative experience. He has been working on the development of advanced finite element methods and nonlinear finite element analyses and modelling of engineering structures with functionally graded/monolithic adhesively bonded joints. He has published over 190 research articles in peer-reviewed scholarly research papers international journals/conferences including 4 books, a monograph and many conference proceedings including a series of lecture materials.