BS ISO 4708:2017

This standard BS ISO 4708:2017 Composition cork. Gasket material. Test methods is classified in these ICS categories:

• 79.100 Cork and cork products
• 21.140 Seals, glands

This document specifies test methods to determine the characteristics of agglomerated composition cork and rubbercork to be used as gaskets in the mechanical industry. The following characteristics are considered:

• thickness,

• apparent density,

• tensile strength,

• compressibility and recovery,

• flexibility,

• resistance to boiling water,

• behaviour in fluids.