ASTM F 2838 - 10 Standard Practice for Accelerated Laboratory Aging of Radial Passenger Car and Light Truck Tires through Load Range E for the Laboratory Generation of Belt Separation

Current edition approved May 1, 2010. Published June 2010. — 6 p.
This practice describes a method to laboratory age a new tire in an oven to produce changes in certain chemical and physical properties at the belt edges similar to those of tires in-service (see Appendix X1).
This practice is a precursor to conducting an ASTM standard roadwheel test method for laboratory generation of belt separation in radial passenger car and light truck tires.
This practice may not produce representative chemical and physical property changes in any part of the tire except the belt edge.