RubberMill can support you with engineering assistance including tool design, material recommendation, compound formulation and prototype development.  Additionally, for a fee, we can provide the typical tests commonly required for new compound development or reverse engineering.  Listed are the most popular tests provided.

Test Method, Description ASTM# Abrasion, NBS D-1630 Abrasion, taber D-3389 D-1044 Adhesion testing D-413 D-429 Bashore resilience D-2632 Brittle point, pass/fail D-2137 D-746 Brittle point, find D-2137 D-746 Capillary rheology D-3835 Coefficient of friction D-1894 Coefficient of thermal expansion D-696 Compression deflection D-575 Compression set,  method A D-395 Compression set,  method B D-395 Demattia flex D-813 Density of specific  gravity D-297 D-792 Dielectric strength, AC/DC D-149 Environmental stress crack, per week D-1693 Flexural modulus, strength D-790 Flexural modulus, cantilever D-747 Fluid resistance, per week D-471

Test Method, Description ASTM# Gardner impact D-3029 Gehman or Clash-Berg stiffness D-1053 D-1043 Goodyear Healy rebound D-1054 Heat aging, per week D-573 Heat deflection, Vicat softening D-648 D-1525 Hot tear resistance D-624 Izod, Charpy impact D-256 Melt flow index D-1238 Mooney viscosity D-1646 Moisture vapor transmission E-96 Ozone resistance D-395 Permeability (air,  water, 02 N2) D-1149 D-1171 Ross flex D-1052 Tear resistance (B,C, Trouser) D-624 D-1938 Temperature of retraction D-1329 Tensile properties D-412 D-638 D-1414 Texus flex D-3629 Volume resistivity, DC D-257 D-991 Young's modulus D-797

Analytical Testing

Test Method & Description		Test Method & Description
Polymer identification by FT-IR, ASTM D-3677, D-2124		Solution viscosity, ASTM D-2857
Rubber compound analysis--standard cursory		% chlorine, ASTM E-442
Rubber compound analysis--complete		Chlorine ion, ASTM D-512
% ash, ASTM D-297		Total sulfur, ASTM D-297
Elemental ash analysis by AA		Free sulfur, ASTM D-297
% extractables, ASTM D-297		Plasticizer ID by GC/FT-IR