- Physical-Mechanical Testing
- Physical-Mechanical Testing of Products
- Physical-Mechanical Testing of Materials
- Custom Mixing, milling, & molding
- Unvulcanized Rubber
- Properties in Tension & Compression at Various Temperatures
- Flex & Fatigue
- Abrasion Resistance
- Cold Temperature Properties
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
- Environmental conditioning & exposure
- Adhesion
- Hardness & Density
- Coefficient of Friction
- Cut & Chip Resistance
- Additional Plastics Testing
- Reference Materials
- Composites Testing
- Chemical-Analytical
- Technology Consulting
- Processing & Development
- Information Services
- Testing of unvulcanized rubber specimens mixed in the laboratory or submitted to Smithers Rapra in the unvulcanized state using an RPA 2000 Rubber Processability Analyzer™
- Testing of vulcanized rubber specimens mixed in the laboratory or excised from actual products
- Frequency sweeps, temperature sweeps or strain sweeps
- Storage modulus, loss modulus, complex modulus, tangent delta
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
Dynamic mechanical analysis measures the mechanical properties of a material as a function of time, temperature, and frequency. Smithers conducts dynamic mechanical analysis using an RSA II as well as an RPA 2000. The following are common analyses that Smithers complete on a regular basis.