Paramus — Adhesive Bond Strength Screen

Overview

Give an early read on adhesive bond strength: relate backbone, tackifier, and crosslink density to cohesive vs adhesive failure. The value is triage across formulation levers, not one lookup.

Guidance vs execution: mechanical and cohesion estimates come from tested Paramus tools. Treat outputs as screening signals, not certified joint performance.

When to Use

• Early bond-strength risk read for a candidate adhesive
• Deciding which formulation levers to pull toward a strength target Do not use for: certified joint qualification or substrate-specific adhesion (use adhesion screen).

Workflow

Adhesive composition + target
  ↓ 1. Map backbone → cohesive strength   → modulus / entanglement
  ↓ 2. Assess tackifier / wetting         → contact + green tack
  ↓ 3. Estimate crosslink effect          → cohesion vs brittleness
  ↓ 4. Predict likely failure mode        → cohesive / adhesive
  ↓ 5. Emit strength summary              → ranked levers + provenance

Procedure

1. Discover tools via search/get_schema ("mechanical", "adhesion", "polymer").
2. Relate the polymer backbone to cohesive strength.
3. Assess tackifier and wetting contributions to contact.
4. Estimate the crosslink-density trade-off (cohesion vs brittleness).
5. Predict the likely failure mode and its driver.
6. Emit a ranked strength summary with provenance.

Domain Judgment

• Bond strength is a system property — backbone, tack, and cure interact.
• Distinguish cohesive from adhesive failure: they need different fixes.
• More crosslinking is not always stronger — brittleness can dominate.

Fallbacks

• Mechanical tool unavailable → deliver a manual failure-mode checklist.
• Endpoint unreachable → stop and report; do not fabricate strength values.