Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Core Type
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Easy to process with all types of resin and lamination processes
- High process temperature up to 150 °C (302 °F)
- Outstanding fatigue strength
- Best-in-class resin uptake
- Very high chemical stability
- Good adhesion (skin-to-core bond)
- Excellent long term thermal stability up to 100 °C (212 °F)
- No water absorption, after expansion nor out-gassing
- 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
- Wind energy: Blades (shear webs & shells), nacelles
- Marine: Decks, hull sides, superstructures, bulkheads, transoms, interiors
- Industrial: Covers, containers, local reinforcements, x-ray tables, sporting goods
- Transportation: Truck body parts, floors
- 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 Elongation at Break | 20.0 | % | — |
| Compressive Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 1.75 (254) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 90 (13,050) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 2.3 (330) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Tensile Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 110 (15,950) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Strength | 0.9 (130) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Modulus Parallel to welding lines | 26 (3‘770) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Modulus Across welding lines | 23 (3,335) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Shear Modulus Across welding lines | 19 (2,755) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Density | 100 (6.2) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | — |
| 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) | — |
| Thermal Conductivity at 10°C | 0.034 (0.236) | W/m.K (BTU.in/ft2.hr.°F) | — |