The use of structural adhesives has increased in recent years as an alternative to intrusive bonding methods. In order for an adhesive joint to be successfully executed, it is necessary to prepare the surface of the substrate, which can be done by different methods. The objective of this work was to make an overview of the main existing surface preparation methods for adhesive bonding and the range of parameters of interest, such as roughness and wettability, that can be obtained.
Structural adhesives have great power in replacing mechanical fasteners. Coupled with this, it is necessary to know the behavior of the adhesively bonded parts; therefore, the Meshlesse method can be an alternative to predict their behavior. To understand the academic production scenario on the subject, a bibliometric analysis was proposed. The results of the bibliometric analysis show that there is a disparity between when analyzing only the isolated bases and the merged database. In addition, it was possible to locate from the bibliometric analysis, especially the annual production on the theme, the primary productive authors and the most relevant Journal.
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