Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Core Type
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Very high compression and shear properties
- Outstanding fatigue strength
- Homogeneous cell structure
- Easy to process with all types of resin and lamination processes
- High process temperature up to 150 °C (short peaks up to 180 °C)
- Good adhesion (skin-to-core bond)
- Excellent long term thermal stability, up to 100 °C (212 °F)
- No water absorption
- Recyclable and recycled material
- Highly consistent material properties
- Comprehensive material traceability (machine-readable batch information on each foam sheet)
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Composites Processing Methods
- Application
- Road: Structural and semi-structural parts in interior and exterior of cars Sidewalls, floors, skirts/covers of trucks.
- Wind energy: Blades (shear webs & shells), nacelles
- Marine: Hulls, decks, superstructures, bulkheads, stringers, interiors
- Industrial: Covers, containers, X-ray tables, sporting goods
- Processing
- Contact molding (hand/spray)
- Vacuum infusion (VARTM)
- Resin injection (RTM)
- Adhesive bonding
- Pre-preg processing
- Compression molding (GMT, SMC)
- Thermoforming
Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Compressive Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 1.2 (174) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 105 (15‘225) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 2.0 (280) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 150 (21‘760) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Strength lengthwise | 1.1 (160) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Strength crosswise | 0.8 (116) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Modulus lengthwise | 34 (4‘931) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Modulus crosswise | 17.5 (2‘538) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Elongation at Break | 20.0 | % | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Density | 100 (6.2) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | — |
| Thermal Conductivity at Room Temperature | tbd (tbd) | W/m.K (BTU.in/ft2.hr.°F) | — |
| Standard Sheet Width | 1005 (39.6) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
| Standard Sheet Length | 2440 (96) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
| Standard Sheet Thickness | 5 to 45 (0.2 to 1.8) | mm ± 0.5 (in ± 0.02) | — |