Rubber Technician Training
Date:
- November 16-19, 2009 - Register before October 26, 2009 (AP8406)
- March 22-25, 2010 (AP8418)
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $1,655 USD
CEU's: 3
Instructor: Robert Seiple
Location: Akron Polymer Training Center, Akron, OH 44325-5404
Course Overview: A four-day course for entry-level training of rubber technicians, experienced rubber technicians and management, and sales engineers on the processing and testing techniques of rubber materials, including two roll mill, internal mixer, tensile, compression set, tear resistance, specific gravity, fluid resistance, hysteresis and stress relaxation. Laboratory sessions and classroom lectures will develop cause and effect relationships. Students are encouraged to discuss unique processing problems.
The student will be trained to use a lab rubber mill and a lab Banbury with emphasis placed on safety and the effective use of correct mixing techniques. Each student will mix and thoroughly test several typical elastomer formulations.
Elastomer formulations used in this program will include those containing natural rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, butyl rubber, nitrile rubber and neoprene.
Students will be trained in and perform ASTM procedures and standard rubber laboratory procedures.
Also included will be classroom discussions, demonstrations and hands-on experiments relating to carbon black dispersion, stress relaxation, glass transition temperature, thermogravimetric analysis, dynamic thermal analysis and visco-elasticity. Special emphasis will be placed on the correlation between routine ASTM testing methodology and the visco-elastic behavior of elastomers.
Price includes manual, materials, continental breakfast each day and two lunches.
Course Outline:
- Four-day course consists of 20 hours of laboratory experiments and 15 hours of lecture
- Calculation of Specific Gravity from Formulation Ingredients
- Determination of Glass Tranisition Temperature from DSC (Lab and Lecture)
- Determination of Density from Hydrostatic Weighing Technique (Lab)
- Determination of Glass Transition Temperature from DMTA (Lab and Lecture)
- Determiniation of Volatiles by TGA Analysis (Lab and Lecture)
- Tensile Properties (Lab and Lecture)
- Tear Properties (Lab and Lecture)
- Resiliency (Lab and Lecture)
- Heat Buildup (Lab and Lecture)
- Stress Relaxation (Lab and Lecture)
- Tan Delta by DMTA and RPA Analysis (Lab and Lecture)
- Visco-elastic Models
- Sulfur and Peroxide Vulcanization
- Carbon Black Types and Effects
- Fillers Types and Effects
- Elasticity and Entropy
- Cure Characteristics by ODR Measurements
- Abrasion Resistance (Lab and Lecture)
- Compression Set (Lab and Lecture)
- Mill and Internal Mixer - Safety and Mixing (Lab and Lecture)
- Mooney Viscosity (Lab and Lecture)
Who Should Attend:
Entry-level rubber testing lab technicians, technical service representatives, technical service representatives, material suppliers and those in need of a refresher course.
Testimonials:
"Course was very educational and a lot of good materials given to help understand testing of the materials we use at our facility. Thank you all. Excellent hospitality."
- Patricia L. Burdine, Lab Technician, Fenner Dunlop America
"Excellent presentations. Diversity of hands-on applications was top notch."
- James Otto, Chemical Engineer, ATK