A closed-cell, thermoplastic foam with an extremely high damage
tolerance. It is cold formable to simple 3-dimensional contours. It is a
suitable core material for dynamically loaded and shock absorbing
sandwich structures.
Applications
ˇ Marine:
parts of hull (slamming area)
ˇ Road and Rail:
front-ends for trains, side skirts
ˇ Industrial Parts:
dynamically loaded structures
Characteristics
ˇ extremely high impact resistance (non-brittle failure mode)
ˇ excellent fatigue resistance
ˇ cold formable to 3-dimensional contours
ˇ rot resistant
ˇ easily thermoformable
ˇ good ageing properties
Processing
ˇ hand lay-up
ˇ fibre spraying
ˇ resin injection
ˇ adhesive bonding
ˇ thermoforming
ˇ prepreg processing