Best rubber-like materials for plastic friction dampers

[Alfninux]

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for some good rubber-like materials to use in a Friction Dampers/Shock Absorbers as the ones used in washing machines.
I would like to know what materials is usually implemented to generate friction in these kind of systems, which kind of rubber? If there is one very good in wear resistance and with a good friction coefficient on ABS plastic

Thank you

 

[dgallup]

I may be showing my ignorance of washing machine construction but I thought that rubber dampers dissipated energy through internal hysteresis caused by deflection and not by rubbing against other surfaces.

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[Pud]

There are elastomers with good wear resistance, but ABS is hopeless for wear resistance.

And dgallup is quite correct.

www.tynevalleyplastics.co.uk

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[Alfninux]

If I want to realise a passive damper in PLASTIC (like ABS) in which two cylinders slide the one with respect to the other, and between their surfaces I want to place a ring-like POLYMERIC element to dissipate energy by friction, which kind of polymer would you use?