Session: Rubber Aging and Durability-AM, Session B (Fall 186th Technical Meeting)

Rubber Aging and Durability-AM, Session B

Tuesday, October 14, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:45 AM

Session B-Rm #205 (Nashville Convention Center)

Chair:

Richard Pazur, Department of National Defence

8:30 AM

Review of Some Important Issues and Resolutions When Lifetime Predictions of Elastomers Are Made Using Accelerated Aging Techniques

Kenneth Gillen, PhD¹, Mathew Celina, PhD¹ and Robert Bernstein, PhD², (1)Department 1819, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, (2)Organic Materials Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

9:30 AM

Shelf Age Stiffening in High Diene Elastomers

James R. Halladay, Lord Corporation, Lord Corporation, PA

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

The Impact of Age Stiffening on Fatigue Crack Growth in Natural Rubber and Polybutadiene

Casey Hedlund and James R. Halladay, LORD Corporation, Erie, PA