Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Core Type
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Fulfills most stringent fire requirements
- Operating temperature from -194 °C to +160 °C (-317 °F to +320 °F)
- Remains ductile at cryogenic temperatures
- Excellent dielectric properties (radar outstanding transparency)
- Very low moisture absorption
- Good fatigue resistance
- High impact resistance (non-brittle failure mode)
- Thermoformable
- Good sound and thermal insulation
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Composites Processing Methods
- Application
- Aircraft and Aerospace: Interiors, cockpit doors, cryogenic tanks, insulating panels, radomes, helicopter rotor blades, general aviation (fuselage and wing)
- Road and Rail: Front-ends, side skirts, roof panels, interiors
- Marine: Fast-ferries, fire resistant interiors, radomes
- Defense: Naval superstructures, antennas, combat communication systems
- Industrial: High temperature tooling, radomes, x-ray tables
- Processing
- Adhesive bonding
- Thermoformable
- Pre-preg processing (up to 180 °C, 355 °F)
- Hot press molding
- Thermoplastic processable
- Automated tape laying (ATL/CTL)
Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Typical Properties
Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
Compressive Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 0.70 (100) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 46 (6,700) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Strength in the Plane | 1.7 (250) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Modulus in the Plane | 45 (6,500) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Strength | 0.80 (120) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Modulus | 18 (2,600) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Elongation at breat | 25.0 | % | — |
Impact Strength | 1.0 (0.48) | kJ/m² (Ft.lb/in²) | — |
Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
Density | 60 (3.75) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | — |
Thermal Conductivity at Room Temperature | 0.036 (0.25) | W/m.K (BTU.in/ft2.hr.°F) | — |
Standard Sheet Width | 1350 (53.1) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
Standard Sheet Length | 2800 (110.2) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
Standard Sheet Thickness | 3 to 60 (1/8 to 2.3) | mm ± 0.5 (in ± 0.02) | — |
Color | Off White | — | — |