My old company hated the word "glue". They acted like it was a bad word. We called it structural adhesive. And in most cases, when properly applied and cured, it was stronger than the base materials and had a longer life cycle than the metal.
I was trying to use it in the railroad industry to combine dissimilar materials. In most tests, I would fail a base metal before the adhesive would give up. That's why cars today are mostly glued together, not welded. No heat also = no distortion... Some of the basic stuff I was testing held 2500lb/sq inch in tension! Imagine hanging a car from cables glued to an I-beam with just 2sq in of contact area.
In one test, I hung 5000lb from 6sq in and tore a layer of steel off an I-beam. Imagine glueing it, then pulling so hard, part of the steel comes off stuck to the glue! And the glue had glass beads in it to keep it only about 1/16" thick.