The tests will evaluate material samples against cold temperatures with flex and impact to understand material performance. Brittleness testing determines the lowest temperature at which materials do not exhibit brittle failure, or the temperature at which 50% of test pieces fail under specified conditions. End use applications requiring extreme low temperature performance could include a variety of industrial, automotive, or aerospace applications.
Common Standards
- ASTM D746 - Standard Test Method for Brittleness Temperature of Plastics and Elastomers by Impact
- ASTM D2137 - Standard Test Methods for Rubber Property—Brittleness Point of Flexible Polymers and Coated Fabrics
- BS ISO 812— Rubber, vulcanized or thermoplastic. Determination of low-temperature brittleness
Industries Served
About the Labs
The extensive sample preparation facilities at our rubber testing laboratories can test a wide variety of materials and product forms and are equipped with a CNC machine, on-site molding, and slitting and buffing equipment to reduce rubber thickness.
- Abrasion Properties Testing
- Adhesion Testing
- Brittleness Testing
- Compressive Properties
- Crack Growth Testing
- Creep Testing
- Crystallization Properties
- Electrical Property Testing
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) Analysis
- DMA Testing - Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
- Electrical Property Testing
- Fatigue Testing of Plastics, Rubbers, and Polymers
- Finite Element Analysis Data (FEA)
- Flexural Properties Testing
- Frictional Properties
- Hardness Properties
- Heat Buildup Testing
- Impact Testing
- Low Temperature Properties Testing
- Moisture Content Analysis
- Optical and Color Properties - Polymer Appearance
- Polymer Density Testing
- Puncture Resistance Testing
- Resilience Testing
- Small Batch Rubber Mixing
- Stress Relaxation Testing
- Tear Resistance
- Tensile Testing - Polymer Tensile Properties
- Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
- Torsional Testing
- Volume Swell Testing