The Netzsch Group will be offering a free webinar on thermal analysis on rubbers on March 3, 2015. The webinar is available in three timeslots: 9am, 2pm, and 5pm Eastern Time. Participants can sign up at the Netzsch Group website.
Thermal analysis is a powerful tool for characterizing elastomers in the context of research and development, quality control or process optimization. This group of analytical methods allows a wide range of information to be obtained about such points of interest as:
- the individual components of a rubber mixture
- the varying thermal stability of a rubber seal under the influence of different gas atmospheres
- the gases evolved during elastomer processing
- the visco-elastic properties of a damping element under high frequency load
In particular, TGA, DSC, high-force DMA, TMA, LFA and coupling techniques are widely used for the investigation of raw materials, semi-finished products and finished parts made of rubber. This webinar gives an overview of the application spectrum of these methods using a range of selected examples and illustrates how glass transition temperatures, compositional aspects such as filler and plasticizer content levels, mechanical parameters such as modulus values, and the thermophysical properties (thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity) can be determined.