Rubber and Elastomers in Engineering
Home About us Contact us Topics: · Design and Manufacture · Elastomers in Civil Engineering · Elastomer Friction and Wear · Engineering Product Development · Engineering Test Equipment · Finite Element Analysis · Rubber Seismic Isolators Online Documents Related links: · Rubber Consultants · TARRC · Brickendonbury	Elastomer Friction and Wear Friction sometimes appears to be a perverse property. Some applications, like windscreen wiper blades, demand low friction. Others, like drive belts and footwear, require a high degree of grip. Tyres, on the other hand, demand both high adhesion (for cornering and braking) and low rolling resistance for maximum fuel economy. Water is an important lubricant and the behaviour of elastomers on thin layers of water and on ice is a well-known phenomenon to both pedestrians and motorists. Different polymers behave in markedly different ways under these conditions and, furthermore, it is possible to modify their behaviour through specialized compounding. Do you need to: · Increase or decrease the surface friction coefficient? · Alter the balance of friction and wear properties? · Measure friction under wet or dry conditions? · Relate surface friction to topography? Take advantage of the expertise we have developed through 40 years experience to obtain answers to your own product development problem. Our experts have published over 100 scientific papers in this area, and have developed friction measurement instruments to provide both QC and research data. One of the instruments is available commercially. Whether it be friction or wear concerning: Table tennis bat covers, Grips for sports goods, Footwear Soling, Bridge bearings, Pipeline Grips, Rubber Gloves, Wiper blades, Shaft Seals, Drive Belts, Road tyres, Catheters, Suckers, Wheels, Bushes … we may have the answer. For more information contact us
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