In today's rubber market, the choice offered to engineers and designers is huge rubber. The number of choices usually causes confusion and rubber selects a particular application. Properties such as temperature resistance, compression set, tear strength and elongation may not be fully understood, thus affecting the correct choice of rubber.

Here, we discuss why engineers choose silicone rubber with other rubber materials and benefits when applying elastomers.

First we have to outline all the rubbers that have positive and negative aspects depending on the application conditions, so far, not a rubber like that, so this gives us a realistic conclusion that we must go deep into the application conditions and the rubber will eventually be used A better understanding of the stress of the material will face professional advice.

Silicon is the most commonly used extreme temperature for its excellent performance and this is often the main reason why silicon is being selected for application. Unlike most other elastomers, silica gel can withstand temperatures up to 230 ° C (446 ° F). In contrast, EPDM can only reach 150°C (300°F) at most, and you can see why silicon is the thermoelastomer that chooses to experience extreme applications. On the other side of the thermometer, silicon can withstand temperatures as low as 60 ° C (76 ° F) which means that with other elastomers, brittleness, silicone oil stays flexible under extremely cold conditions.

Some silicone miscellaneous pieces, silicone can withstand the table 300 ° C maximum temperature (572 °) looks impressive, however, we know that silicon exposure at a constant temperature will last for a few minutes, this is not an explanation of the data sheet. This is true, however, silica gel can withstand 300 ° C but this is a short intermittent period and should be indicated to prevent failure in the application.