Abstract
The main characteristics of pressure sensitive adhesives are: peel, shear and tensile strength. This paperwork presents the shear tests and related phenomena of pressure sensitive adhesives based on polychloroprene rubber using both metallic and polymeric substrates. The influence of the main parameters which control the shear strength of the adhesive assemblies was studied: nature of the substrates, contact time and pressure. Keywords: pressure sensitive adhesives, elastomers, polychloroprene rubber