Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Core Type
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Superior fire retardancy (FAR 25.853; EN 45545, EN 13501)
- Outstanding fatigue strength
- Excellent long term thermal stability up to 100 °C (212 °F)
- Best thermal stability in process up to 150 °C (302 °F)
- Good thermal insulation
- Highly consistent material properties
- Easy to process with all types of resin and lamination processes
- Good adhesion (skin-to-core bond)
- Very high chemical stability
- No water absorption, no after-expansion, no outgassing
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Composites Processing Methods
- Application
- Aerospace: Interiors, galleys, meal trolleys, radomes
- Road and Rail: Floors, sidewalls, front ends, interiors, roofs, engine covers
- Marine: Decks, interiors, superstructures
- Industrial: Covers, containers, x-ray tables, sporting goods
- Architecture and Construction: Roofs, claddings, domes, portable building
- Processing
- Contact molding (hand/spray)
- Vacuum infusion
- Resin infusion / injection (VARTM / RTM)
- Adhesive bonding
- Pre-preg processing
- Compression molding (GMT, SMC)
- Thermoforming
Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Shear Modulus | 30 (4,350) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Compressive Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 2.2 (319) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 105 (15,230) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 2.7 (392) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 170 (24,650) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Strength | 1.2 (174) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Elongation at Break | 8.0 | % | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Standard Sheet Length | 2440 (96) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
| Standard Sheet Width | 1220 (48) | mm ± 5 (in ± 0.2) | — |
| Standard Sheet Thickness | 5 to 100 (⅛ to 4) | mm ± 0.5 (in ± 0.02) | — |
| Density | 145 (9.1) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | — |
| Thermal Conductivity at 10°C | 0.038 (0.263) | W/m.K (BTU.in/ft2.hr.°F) | — |