This new edition presents an up-to-date introduction to the standard methods used for testing, quality control analysis, product evaluation, and production of design data for rubber and elastomers. Factors to be incorporated in the revision include the effects of newer instrumentation, the cutting back of laboratory staff, increased demands for formal accreditation and calibration, the trend to product testing, the overlap of thermoplastic elastomers with plastics and increased need for design data.
- General Considerations.
- Standards and Standards Organisations.
-Preparation of Test Pieces.
- Conditioning and Test Atmospheres.
- Tests on Unvulcanized Rubbers.
- Mass, Density, and Dimensions.
- Short-term Stress-Strain Properties.
- Dynamic Stress and Strain Properties.
- Creep, Relaxation, and Set.
- Friction and Wear.- Fatigue.
- Electrical Tests.
- Thermal Properties.
- Effect of Temperature.
- Environmental Resistance.
- Permeability.
- Adhesion, Corrosion, and Staining.
- Index.