Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Core Type
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Outstanding strength and stiffness to weight ratios
- First-class, select grade lumber
- Ecological product
- Broadest range of available balsa densities worldwide
- Certified for a range of applications by DNV, Germanischer Lloyd, Lloyd's Register, American Bureau of Shipping and Korean Register
- Excellent fatigue and impact resistance
- Fulfills most FST (flame, smoke, toxicity) requirements
- Good sound and thermal insulation
- Extremely wide operating temperature range (-212 °C to +163 °C (-414 °F to +325 °F)
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Composites End Use
- Composites Processing Methods
- Application
- Marine: Hulls, decks, bulkheads, superstructures, interiors, tooling/molds
- Road and Rail: Floors, roofs, side skirts, front-ends, doors, interiors, covers
- Wind energy: Rotor blades (shear webs and shells), nacelles, spinners
- Industrial: Tanks, containers, architectural panels, impact limiters, sporting goods
- Aerospace: Floors, cargo pallets, cargo containers, bulkheads, general aviation
- Defense: Naval vessels, containers, cargo pallets, shelters, ballistic panels
- Processing
- Adhesive bonding
- Compression molding
- Contact molding (hand/spray)
- Pre-preg processing (up to 180 °C, 355 °F)
- Resin injection (RTM)
- Vacuum infusion
Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Typical Properties
Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
Apparent Nominal Density | 132 (8.2) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | ASTM C271 |
ContourKore Thickness (CK) | 4.7 to 50 (3/16 to 2) | mm +0.25 -0.75 (in +0.01 -0.03) | — |
Compressive Strength Perpendicular to the Plane | 7.7 (1117) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Compressive Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 2187 (317198) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane (Polyester) | 5.0 (725) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Strength Perpendicular to the Plane (Polyester) | 10.9 (1581) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Tensile Modulus Perpendicular to the Plane | 2337 (338954) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Strength | 2.3 (334) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Shear Modulus | 166 (24076) | N/mm² (psi) | — |
Minimum Sheet Density | 113 (7.1) | kg/m³ (lb/ft³) | ASTM C271 |
Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
Standard Sheet Width | 610 (24) | mm ± 5 (in ± 3/16) | — |
Standard Sheet Length | 1220 (48) | mm ± 10 (in ± 3/8) | — |
Standard Sheet Thickness | 4.7 to 76 (3/16 to 3) | mm +0.25 -0.75 (in +0.01 -0.03) | — |
Thermal Conductivity at Room Temperature | 0.059 (0.407) | W/m.K (BTU.in/ft2.hr.°F) | — |