Rubber parts such as silicone diaphragms, septums, seals, valves, tubing, and balloons are critical components in many of today’s medical devices. FEA can be an excellent tool for design engineers to ...

In the last two decades, the rubber process analyzer has been used increasingly to predict changes in a tires compound's processing and/or product performance by measuring viscoelastic properties at ...

NUREMBERG, Germany—MonTech Rubber Testing Instruments GmbH introduced what it claims is "the first automated robotic testing system available to the rubber industry," at DKT2018. The fully automated ...

Finite-element analysis (FEA) is an indispensable tool for predicting a product’s behavior in real-world situations and over time. However, an FEA model is only as good as the material parameters it’s ...

Bose offers a variety of test instruments to support research and development of tire and rubber products. Bose’s tire and rubber testing instruments are highly versatile, and each system has a range ...

When specifying seals for hydraulic, pneumatic, and fluidhandling systems, ensuring that seal materials suit the application is always a prime concern. Fluid incompatibility, temperature extremes, and ...

Yokohama Rubber has begun practical testing of a technology that gauges air pressure from the sound made by tapping on a tire. The company announced that it has developed an experimental pressure ...

Göran Spetz, manager and owner of Elastocon AB, talks to AZoM about the degradation of rubber materials and the need for artificial ageing of rubber within industry. Could you explain the need for ...

It is necessary to test rubber goods to ensure electrical safety. First of all, let’s discuss why products made of rubber are used to deal with electrical appliances. Rubber has the least amount of ...