tack testing | Adhesives & Sealants Industry

Testing Adhesives: Force Measurement to the Rescue

Recent advancements in force measurement can help adhesives manufacturers keep up with changing customer demands.

April 1, 2021

The global pandemic has accelerated demand for manufactured goods of many types, as consumers stay home and manufacturers continue to operate as essential businesses.

Analyzing Polymer Properties

A monitoring system continuously analyzes polymer properties during production and in real time.

May 17, 2019

Pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), which date back to the 1920s, are critical to the medical, engineering and construction industries.

Ask Dr. Dave: Please explain tack, peel adhesion and shear strength in regards to pressure-sensitive adhesives.

PSAs can be formulated with a range of adhesive and cohesive properties.

October 1, 2015

Dave Dunn's October 2015 column.

Improved Rheological Quality Control Tests for Today's Adhesives and Sealants

A range of rheological equipment is available with a variety of spindle geometries to properly perform quality control analyses of various adhesives and sealants.

David Moonay Ph.D.

October 1, 2014

Formulators are constantly updating their adhesive and sealant formulations; consequently, manufacturers of the equipment used to measure the adhesives’ and sealants’ flow behavior properties must keep current with these new formulations.

BROOKFIELD ENGINEERING: Loop Tack Tester

December 26, 2013

The new TA-LTT loop tack tester can be used with this company’s CT3 tester. The tester is designed for testing the adhesive strength of materials per ASTM D 2979.

Nasal Strip Adhesion

Evaluating a product’s adhesive qualities can help manufacturers gain a clearer picture of its overall strengths and weaknesses.

Marc Johnson Ben Senning Amanda Trombley

October 1, 2013

Adhesive nasal strips were first created in the early 20th century not for people but for racing horses. Horse trainers found that their horses raced better with the strips in place.

Novel Testing and Quality Control

Distinctive data can help convince customers to allocate time and resources to trial a product in their application.

Debbie Nash-Makita

February 1, 2013

For many years, the adhesives and sealants industry has used a range of standardized test methods to ensure the quality of products for industrial applications.

Practical Adhesion Testing

Carl Bramley

August 1, 2011

A wide range of adhesive properties can be measured by applying tensile or compression forces in a controlled manner.

Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Testing

Testing pressure-sensitive adhesives under standard conditions of temperature and relative humidity is always a preferred means to compare data from lab to lab and from lot to lot, but it is sometimes necessary to evaluate the performance of an adhesive under conditions that it would encounter in the field.

September 11, 2000

Many adhesives exhibit different properties when subjected to variations in temperature. Some of these adhesives are thermoplastic. They soften when heated and become more brittle when cooled. [In the case of pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs), the nature of the bond is nearly always thermoplastic.] If for the sake of this discussion we limit our testing to tack, peel and shear, we can develop a series of observations that can be applied to most testing situations.