The dispersion of fillers in rubber is still an issue for the industry: industrial products usually contain defects such as filler agglomerates, which can cause their premature failure. Recently, industrials have started to explore nondestructive techniques such as X-ray tomography to characterize material defects. However, an appropriate methodology still needs to be developed. Moreover, further work is needed to relate the defects characteristics to material durability. Thus, extensively using X-ray Tomography, we developed a novel protocol to identify the distinct morphological classes of carbon black agglomerates in EPDM based materials and to precisely understand the influence of processing parameters on their morphology. Then, using a...