Posted on 7/2/2015
Trelleborg’s marine systems operation has launched a brand new whitepaper and webinar which recommend that the industry moves to using modulus as a measure of fender performance. The new materials aim to raise awareness of the importance of ingredient selection, mixing and the manufacturing process in marine fenders, and the importance of utilizing this more robust test method to determine their quality.
Building on previous research into the importance of ingredient selection in fender performance, the new materials prove by experiment and supported by theory, the fact that modulus – the relationship between stress and strain in a cured rubber sample – is a far more effective and robust measure of fender performance than hardness, which is currently used as the traditio...