“…Along with increase industrial application potential, adhesives have been the focus of study of many researchers. Some examples of research topics in this field are; adhesive properties and applications at high and low temperatures (Marques et al 2015, Xie et al 2015, Xia et al 2014, adhesive ageing (Pethrick 2014), adhesive joints fracture characterization (Chaves et al 2014), development and validation of numeric simulation tools (Gonçalves et al 2014, Campilho, Banea, and da Silva 2013, Sauer 2015, self-healing and thermally expandable particles in adhesive (Banea et al 2014, Gu andZacharia 2015), application cases (Kadioglu andAdams 2015, Schiel et al 2015), along with other topics. Compared with other joining techniques adhesive bonding results in less stress concentrations, higher vibration damping and fatigue strength.…”