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 | |
Shear Elongation at Break | 20.0 | % | — |
Compressive Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 1.6 (232) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 120 (17‘410) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 2.3 (334) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 165 (23‘930) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Strength lengthwise | 1.15 (167) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Strength crosswise | 0.9 (131) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Modulus lengthwise | 38 (5‘511) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Modulus crosswise | 22 (3‘191) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
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) | — |
Density | 110 (6.9) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | — |