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 | 1.1 (160) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 62 (9,000) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Strength in the Plane | 2.0 (290) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Modulus in the Plane | 54 (7,800) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Strength | 1.1 (160) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Modulus | 23 (3,300) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Elongation at breat | 23.0 | % | — |
| Impact Strength | 1.3 (0.62) | kJ/m² (Ft.lb/in²) | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Standard Sheet Thickness | 3 to 60 (1/8 to 2.3) | mm ± 0.5 (in ± 0.02) | — |
| Color | Off White | — | — |
| Density | 80 (5.0) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | — |
| Thermal Conductivity at Room Temperature | 0.037 (0.26) | W/m.K (BTU.in/ft2.hr.°F) | — |
| Standard Sheet Width | 1200 (57.2) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
| Standard Sheet Length | 2700 (106.3) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |