A Production Application of Structural Adhesive Bonding: A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers Held in Detroit from January 11 to 15, 1954

AIRCRAFT structural engineers have long been intrigued by the possibility of eliminating the thousands of assembly operations involved in a typical airframe structure—one composed of many formed pieces joined by rivets and bolts—and of replacing these multiple operations with a double, or even a single, automatic operation employing simply temperature and pressure.