Taber Abrasor

The most widely used test to rate the abrasion resistance of plastics is the Taber Abrasor (6). te this test, a 10 cm square plaque of the plastic is affixed to a record player type of turntable. As it rotates in the horizontal plane, two weighted rubber/abrasive wheels counter-rotate on the plaque to produce a circular wear... 

Somewhat similar is the abrasive tape test for plastics (9). This test rubs plaques of plastic against a contact roll covered with bonded abrasive tape. Mass loss in a prescribed amount of contact with the abrasive tape is the metric. The reference material for the test is wrought zinc. This test simulates severe abrasion. This testing standard contains a second procedure that rubs flat plastic specimens against flat plates covered wifti aluminum oxide particles. This is a three-body abrasion tribosystem as opposed to the two-body system used in the tape test These two tests and the Taber Abrasor test compete with each other and none is considered to be a reference abrasion test for plastics. 

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