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DIN 53754 is a national testing standard that helps you to evaluate the abrasion resistance of plastics using what’s known as the ‘abrasive disk’ method.
DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.), a German standardization body, has developed the use, rules, guidelines and characteristics of around 30,000 standards.
Scrapes and scuffs can have a massive impact on the visual appeal of a product or component. Abrasion testing to standards such as DIN 53754 is important as it can show you how your products and packaging will fare when they’re subject to wear and tear from rubbing, grinding or scraping against other materials.
Abrasion testing can be carried out on a huge number of materials, from plastics and polymers to metals or even paper and textiles.
So, how can Industrial Physics support your abrasion testing to DIN 53754 standards?
TQC Sheen TABER Abraser 1700-1750
The Taber Abrasion from TQC Sheen is used to determine relative resistance to abrasion defined as ‘the ability of a material to withstand mechanical damage’ such as rubbing, scraping or erosion. Our trusty abrasion tester can be used in the wear and durability testing of parquet, metals, leather, textiles, rubber, lacquered surfaces, carpets and coatings.
We make a wide range of abrasion testing wheels to suit all sorts of abrasion testing standards including the DIN 53754. These include the Taber CS 17 abrasion wheels, the Taber CS 10 wheels or our CS-10F Calibrase® Wheel Set.
In our portfolio of abrasion testing products we also have various sandpaper options, including our Taber S-42 sandpaper strips (100pcs) or our Taber S 16 specimen plates (10pc).
Talk to us about your specific requirements and we will supply the right abrasion tester products and accessories for your needs.
We’ve learnt a thing or two about testing plastic over the decades. We like to share our knowledge. Across the knowledgebase section of our website we publish lots of blogs on related subjects. You could start with this blog on signs of creep failure in plastics and polymers. Then you could check out this one on the crucial role of hardness testing polymers and plastic materials.
If you have any questions about DIN 53754 and how we can help you with your plastic testing, then just get in touch!
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Taber Abrasion is used to determine relative resistance to abrasion defined as ‘the ability of a material to withstand mechanical damage’ such as rubbing, scraping or erosion. The Taber Abraser is an industry standard used in the wear and durability testing of parquet, metals, leather, textiles, rubber, lacquered surfaces, carpets, coatings etc.. Single or dual…
Genuine Taber CS 17 Green abrasion wheels, engineered for use with TABER Abraser 1700-1750. Designed to deliver standardized rub-wear testing with repeatable results across a wide range of rigid materials including coatings, metals, aluminum, and rubber.
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