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General Considerations

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A series of general matters pertaining to testing is discussed. This includes philosophy of testing, the sources of test pieces, test conditions, quality matters, test equipment and the particular cases of thermoplastic elastomers and product testing.

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Brown, R. (2018). General Considerations. In: Physical Test Methods for Elastomers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66727-0_2

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