Rubber Compound and Product Testing
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Rubber Compound and Product Testing Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Rubber Compound and Product Testing (subject code 3162609) as prescribed for Rubber · Semester 6 divides the course into 9 units, covering 51 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3162609)Unit 1 Importance of Testing in Rubber Industries
- Accuracy & Validity
- Specimen Preparation
- Standard Temperature
- Organisations Producing Standards
- Preparation of Test Pieces
Unit 2 Tests on Unvulcanized Rubbers
- Scorch & Cure rate
- Plasticity Retention index
- Determination of Specific gravity
- Green Strength
Unit 3 Mass, Density and Dimensions
- Dimensions Standard methods
- Non-standard methods
- surface roughness
- dimension stability
Unit 4 Short-Term Stress & Strain Properties
- Tensile Stress/Strain
- Shear Stress/Strain
- Flexural (Blending) Stress/Strain
- Tear Test
Unit 5 Dynamic Stress - Strain Properties & Fatigue
- Rebound Resilience
- Dynamic Modulus
- Loss Modulus
- Tan Delta
- Loss Compliance
- Shear Modulus (Free Vibration Methods
- Forced Vibration Methods)
- Flex-cracking & Cut growth Tests
- Heat Buildup
Unit 6 Creep, Relaxation & Set, Friction & Wear
- Stress relaxation
- Compression set (constant load
- constant deflection)
- Friction and Wear
- Abrasion property
Unit 7 Electrical Tests
- Resistance or resistivity
- Surface charge
- Electric strength
- Tracking resistance
- Power factor and permittivity. 6 Subject Code: 3162609 w.e.f
Unit 8 Effect of Temperature & Environmental Resistance
- Thermal expansion
- Transition temperature
- Low temperature properties
- Heat ageing
- Effect of liquids
- Volume Swelling
- Water absorption
- Effect of gases
- Effect of ozone
- Biological attack
Unit 9 Permeability
- Gas Permeability
- Constant volume method
- Constant pressure method
- Carrier gas method
- High Pressure measurements & Vapor Permeability
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