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Testing can be very expensive and many people would be pleased to dispense with the whole affair; so why is it essential? Put simply, the reason is that men and women make mistakes, machines go wrong and we don’t know enough.
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Brown, R.P. (1996). General considerations. In: Physical Testing of Rubber. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0529-3_2
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