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Service Lifetime Estimation of EPDM Rubber Based on Accelerated Aging Tests

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Service lifetime of ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber at room temperature (25 °C) was estimated based on accelerated aging tests. The study followed sealing stress loss on compressed cylinder samples by compression stress relaxation methods. The results showed that the cylinder samples of EPDM can quickly reach the physical relaxation equilibrium by using the over-compression method. The non-Arrhenius behavior occurred at the lowest aging temperature. A significant linear relationship was observed between compression set values and normalized stress decay results, and the relationship was not related to the ambient temperature of aging. It was estimated that the sealing stress loss in view of practical application would occur after around 86.8 years at 25 °C. The estimations at 25 °C based on the non-Arrhenius behavior were in agreement with compression set data from storage aging tests in natural environment.

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This work was financially supported by Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation Grant No. ZR2016BQ15.

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  1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, 264005, People’s Republic of China

    Jie Liu & Tao He

  2. State Key Laboratory for Marine Corrosion and Protection, Luoyang Ship Material Research Institute (LSMRI), Qingdao, 266101, People’s Republic of China

    Xiangbo Li & Likun Xu

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Liu, J., Li, X., Xu, L. et al. Service Lifetime Estimation of EPDM Rubber Based on Accelerated Aging Tests. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 26, 1735–1740 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-017-2519-8

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