1 Scope
This document specifies three methods for the determination of the permeability to
gases of vulcanized or thermoplastic rubber under a differential partial pressure.
The three methods specified are as follows:
— a pressure sensor method (using vacuum): for determining the gas transmission rate , gas permeability coefficient , gas diffusion coefficient and gas solubility coefficient ;
— a simplified sensor method (using applied pressure): for determining the gas permeability coefficient only;
— a gas-chromatographic method: for determining the gas transmission rate and gas permeability coefficient .
These methods apply to vulcanized and thermoplastic rubbers of hardness not less than
35 IRHD (international rubber hardness degrees) and to both single gases and mixtures
of gases.