The 28 papers in this volume were originally presented at the International Symposium on Adhesion Measurements of Films and Coatings, held in Boston, December 5-7, 1992. The contributions range from overview papers to detailed reports of original research activity.

From the Preface: “...Recently I had the occasion to sift the literature and compile the list of adhesion measurement techniques and, you may believe it or not, the final score came to 355 (quite a stupendous number), which are listed in the opening paper of this book...[S]ome of these techniques sound uncouth, primitive and plainly humorous. In spite of this cornucopia of techniques, no single technique has been acceptable to everyone or applicable to all coating—substrate combinations; and this has been the cause for the proliferation of techniques for adhesion measurement. Also there has been perennial discordance among the people working in this arena as to what exactly is measured when someone uses one of these techniques to measure adhesion...”

Target Audience: Researchers, technologists, and students interested in measuring adhesion of films and coatings.

Partial Table of Contents:

Adhesion Measurement of Films and Coatings: A Commentary

Adherence Failure and Measurement: Some Troubling Questions

Measurement of Adhesion for Thermally Sprayed Materials

Adhesion Measurement of Thin Film Metals by Scratch, Peel and Pull Methods

Adhesion Improvement of RF-Sputtered Alumina Coatings as Determined by the Scratch Test

Scratch Indentation, a Simple Adhesion Test Method for Thin Films on Polymeric Supports

On the Evaluation of Adhesion of Coatings by Automatic Scratch Testing

Micro-Scratch Test for Adhesion Evaluation of Thin Films

Mechanics of the Indentation Test and Its Use to Assess the Adhesion of Polymeric Coatings

Observations and Simple Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Indentation Fracture Delamination of TiN Films on Silicon

A Study of the Fracture Efficiency Parameter of Blister Tests for Films and Coatings

Adhesion (Fracture Energy) of Electropolymerized Poly(n-octyl maleinide-co-styrene) Coatings on Copper Substrates Using a Constrained Blister Test

An Experimental Partitioning of the Mechanical Energy Expended During Peel Testing

Comparison of Finite Element Stress Analysis Results with Peel Strength at the Copper—Polyimide Interface

Measurement of the Practical Adhesion of Paint Coatings to Metallic Sheets by the Pull-Off and Three-Point Flexure Tests

Measurement of the Adhesion of Diamond Films on Tungsten and Correlations with Processing Parameters

Recent Developments in the Laser Spallation Technique to Measure the Interface Strength and Its Relationship to Interface Toughness with Applications to Metal/Ceramic, Ceramic/Ceramic and Ceramic/Polymer Interfaces

Adhesion Studies of Polyimide Films Using a Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor

Testing the Adhesion of Paint Films to Metals by Swelling in N-methyl Pyrrolidone