Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Core Type
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Low total cost fabrication
- Exceeds FAR 25.853 requirements: nearly zero smoke evolution, easily passes OSU heat release test
- Processing temperature up to 180 °C (355 °F)
- Very low moisture absorption
- Excellent hot-wet performance
- Exceptional impact resistance (non-brittle failure mode)
- Very good chemical resistance against aerospace fluids
- Dimensional stability in flight conditions
- Easy CNC routing and thermoforming to complex shapes
- Thermoplastic & thermoset composites compatible
- Good sound and thermal insulation
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Composites Processing Methods
- Application
- Aircraft and Aerospace: Interiors, luggage bins, side walls, seat covers, galleys, monuments, edge fillers, trolleys, insulating panels Defense: Naval joiner work, radomes, antennas, ballistic spacers
- Marine: Fire retardant interiors, cladding
- Railway: Interiors, side skirts, roof panels
- 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 | 0.65 | N/mm² | — |
| Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 23.0 | N/mm² | — |
| Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 1.1 | N/mm² | — |
| Shear Strength | 0.75 | N/mm² | — |
| Shear Modulus | 9.3 | N/mm² | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Density | 53.0 | kg/m³ | — |
| Thermal Conductivity at Room Temperature | 0.038 | W/m.K | — |
| Standard Sheet Width | 590.0 | mm ± 5 | — |
| Standard Sheet Length | 2500.0 | mm ± 5 | — |
| Standard Sheet Thickness | 5 to 30 | mm ± 0.5 | — |