ASTM D 572 - 04 (Reapproved 2015) Standard Test Method for Rubber - Deterioration by Heat and Oxygen

Current edition approved July 1, 2015. Published October 2015. Originally approved in 1940. Last previous edition approved in 2010 as D572 – 04 (2010). — 4 p.
This test method covers a procedure to determine the relative deterioration resistance of vulcanized rubber in a high temperature and high pressure oxygen environment. There may be no exact correlation between this accelerated test and of natural aging. This accelerated test is suitable for laboratorycompound or product comparisons.
For evaluating rubber vulcanizates under less severe conditions more nearly approaching natural aging, the use of Test Methods D573 and D865 is recommended.