Aging of elastomeric seals for storage casks - 15080
Conference
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OSTI ID:22822648
- BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin (Germany)
Elastomeric seals are used in many containers, including casks for radioactive waste. However, like all polymers, elastomers are prone to aging, which leads to a loss of sealing force and the ability for recovery which can ultimately result in leakage. Therefore it is important to be able to define an end-of-lifetime criterion and to judge the lifetime of elastomeric seals. For this reason, we started an aging program on three kinds of rubbers (HNBR, EPDM, FKM), monitoring the change of properties at four different aging temperatures over extended periods up to five years. The measured data is used for lifetime prediction by applying a suitable model. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22822648
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--19-WM-15080
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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