Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Reinforcement Form
- Reinforcement Material
- Composite Materials Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Materials Features
- Product Highlights
- Excellent Processing Owens Corning T30 does not have catenary, enabling smooth run-out, while low fuzz properties result in smoother parts and less downtime for clean-up; enabling higher efficiencies and lower manufacturing costs.
- Outstanding Mechanical Properties Excellent shear and flexural properties in major resin systems, provide maximum part strength and long part service life.
- Excellent Strand Wet-out with Reduced Cost Fast, uniform strand wet-out leads to higher glass loading with reduced resin, in all major resin systems. Resulting in optimized part production speed and increased productivity, reducing manufacturing costs.
- Multi-resin Compatibility Excellent glass/resin bonding in polyester, vinyl ester, polyurethane, acrylic, and epoxy resins, providing the processor maximum flexibility with one input glass. This reduces cost with less inventory to carry and eliminates the need for costly downtime and labor to change input glass during job changes.
- Superior Corrosion Resistance Compared to standard E-glass, Advantex® glass provides longer service life in applications facing corrosion.
- Product Benefits
Redefining Pultrusion Design
- Allows for design optimization of existing applications
- Enables development of pultrusion applications requiring light, strong, damage resistance functions
- Application development accelerating in polyurethane profiles such as window lineals, composite cables, railway sleepers
Premium Modulus and Strength
- Allows up to 10-15% higher strength/ modulus vs. traditional E-glass fibers
- Higher modulus vs. traditional E-glass
- Excellent interfacial bonding with resin
- Superior longitudinal and transverse flex strength
- High retained strength after boiling test
- Advantex® glass superior corrosion resistance vs. E glass
Optimized Production Efficiency
- Allows virtually 100% transfer efficiency
- Ease of processing
- Fast wet out and impregnation in all resins
- Low fuzz
- Multi-compatible: premium properties in polyurethane, polyester, vinyl ester and epoxy
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Composites End Use
- Composites Processing Methods
- Applications
- Pultrusion applications in polyester, vinyl ester, epoxy, polyurethane, and acrylic resin systems, using conventional dip bath or resin injection technology.
- Pultruded structural applications: ladder rails, grating systems, rebar and poles, etc.
Properties
- Technical Characteristics (Single-End Roving)
The following data was generated using production material 366 roving – 113 Yield (4400 Tex).
Strand Tensiles: ASTMD 2343 Inter-laminar Shear Strength ASTM D 2344
Mechanical Properties Strength (MPa) Dry Shear Strength (MPa) Shear Strength Retention 72 hr boil (%)
DER 331 Epoxy Resin 2344 61.6 98% Polyester F701 Resin 2310 72.5 86%
Regulatory & Compliance
- Chemical Inventories
Packaging & Availability
- Packaging Type
- Regional Availability
- Labelling
Each individual package is labeled with information including: product name, tex/yield, producing plant, and production date.
- Availability
Region Yield Tex N. America 450 - 330 - 250 - 113 1100 - 1500 - 2000 - 4400 - Packaging (Standard Reference)
Rovings are available in a single-end internal-pull package. Each pallet weighs about 1 ton and can be packaged in bulk or Creel-Pak® packaging format. Pallets are stretch-wrapped for load stability and for protection during transport. All individual packages are wrapped with Tack-Pak® packaging to aid package run-out and transfer. More information is available in the Customer Acceptance Standards.
Storage & Handling
- Storage
It is recommended to store glass fiber products in a cool, dry area. The glass fiber products must remain in their original packaging material until the point of usage; the product should be stored in the workshop, within its original packaging, 48 hours prior to its utilization, to allow it to reach the workshop temperature condition and prevent condensation, especially during cold season. The packaging is not waterproof. Be sure to protect the product from the weather and other sources of water. When stored properly, there is no known shelf life to the product, but retesting is advised after three years from the initial production date to insure optimum performance.