AbstractCuremeters were invented ba

Abstract
Curemeters were invented back in the late 1950s and early 1960s and have ever since provided the rubber industry and others with valuable information on how the curing reactions of heat-curable rubber compounds are progressing during the vulcanization stage.

Since many rubber-to-metal bonding agents can loosely be described as heat curable rubbers, dissolved in suitable solvents, the same principle of curemetering should therefore apply for rubber-to-metal bonding adhesives as for ordinary rubber compounds.

This work has evaluated the potential of the Dynamic Mechanic Thermal Analyzer (DMTA) as an instrument to characterize the curing of rubber-to-metal bonding agents. The materials studied were commercially available Megum 3270 (primer), Megum 100 (adhesive) and NR/BR (rubber). The technique was found reliable and needed for optimization of future bonding agents