We offer you the following services
DIN, ISO, ASTM and industry-specific standards
- hardness: Shore A, IRHD
- rebound resilience, temperature dependent
- abrasion resistance
- stress-strain behavior, temperature dependent
- tear growth resistance, temperature dependent
- compression set, tension set
- compression strength, tensile strength, environmentand temperature dependent
- density measurements
- aging and endurance behavior
- temperature, ozone, xenone environments
- filler dispersion
- electric permittivity and resistivity
- flex-fatigue testing (De Mattia)
- Flexometer test
- shrinkage behavior
- "heat build up"
- "Fogging"-measurements to DIN 75201 or VDA 278
- determination of "VOC"
- pyrolysis GC-MS
Dynamic-mechanical testing
Wear behavior
- dynamic crack propagation "Tear Analyzer", fracturemechanical characteristics
- fracture mechanical calculations, lifetime predictions
- static and dynamic friction measurements
- evaluation of hysteresis and adhesion friction
- fatigue properties in uniaxial, biaxial and torsionalmode, Wöhler- and Haigh-diagrams
Processing technology
- strategies for discontinuous and continuous mixingprocesses
- compounding of thermoplastic vulcanisates
- mixing, extrusion, calendaring and injection molding
- rheological measurements and assessment of theprocessability of compounds
- process analysis and process optimization
- process development
- manufacturing of samples of products underdevelopment
Trace analysis for pharmaceutical topics and of polymers which are in contact with food and other utensils
Environmental and employment protection measurements
Material development
Mold filling simulations
- thermo-rheological characterization for elastomer mixtures
- implementation of test results into SIGMASOFT® database
- simulation of mold filling process with SIGMASOFT®
- evaluation of contacting flow front positions, last filling points, venting
- analysis of shear induced heating, scorch, cross-linking
- consideration of tempering, hot or cold runners