KAPEX® C51 is a resilient, closed-cell foam core material for light, damage tolerant sandwich structures. In a continuous manufacturing
process a ductile core material of modified polyurethane is produced with a high dynamic fatigue strength. The foam is cold formable to simple 3 dimensional contours and can be thermoformed to more extreme 3-dimensional shapes. Its high temperature resistance allows short processing cycles with fast curing resin systems, prepregs or thermoplastic fibre reinforced skins (GMT) making it very suitable for large volume sandwich part production.
Applications :
- Road:
interior and exterior parts for automotive industry, car bodies, load
floors, deflectors, spoilers, superstructures
- Rail:
interior and exterior parts, skirts, covers
- Wind energy:
wind turbine generator housings
- Industry:
containers, shelters, covers
Characteristics
- high short period temperature resistance
- easily shapable to 3-dimensional contours
- high impact resistance (non-brittle failure mode)
- easily workable
- processing up to 140 °C
- good fatigue resistance
Processing
- GMT (glass mat reinforced thermoplastic) compression moulding
- thermoforming
- fibre spraying
- resin injection
- adhesive bonding
- prepreg processing
