Mumbai, April 18 -- The Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC) has opened a new MRB Rubber Engineering Laboratory recently in Brickendonbury, Hertford, that will provide the global earthquake community with a research and testing resource that will enhance and promote the use of Malaysian technology for seismic protection.
Within this new laboratory TARRC engineers have designed and built a large rubber component test machine that can test full-scale bearings under full-scale earthquake conditions, as well as having the capability to test other large structural rubber-based bearings.Over the last four decades, TARRC and the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) has played a pioneering role in developing natural rubber based products for protecting...