o-ring cracking
- May 05, 2016
Here at Gallagher Fluid Seals, we provide O-rings to almost every industry you can think of: fluid power, chemical processing, aerospace, energy oil & gas, life sciences, pulp & paper, etc.
The thing with an O-ring is as long as it’s doing its job, you never really even know it’s there. It is only when an O-ring starts to fail and a leak develops that you investigate the problem.
One of the key causes of O-ring cracking is ozonolysis (ozone cracking). Ozone cracking occurs mostly with Nitrile Rubber o-rings (nitrile, buna, buna-N).
