PA6-CF
High performancePA6-CF is carbon-fibre filled nylon 6. It delivers the category's top mechanical strength with excellent fatigue performance. Suited for structural parts, gears and mounts under continuous loads.
Typical applications
- Structural parts
- Gears
- Continuous-load mounts
- Frames & brackets
Property profile
| Strength | 3.3 / 5 |
|---|---|
| Stiffness | 2.3 / 5 |
| Toughness | 1.2 / 5 |
| Heat | 3.1 / 5 |
| Printability | 2.5 / 5 |
| Lightness | 3.1 / 5 |
Indicative values (0–5) derived from the specs, normalized across our catalog.
Strengths
- Functional
- Stiff
- Heat resistant
- Impact resistant
Worth considering
- More demanding to print
- Relatively heavy
General
- Technology
- Large Scale
- Material group
- Carbon-fibre filled composites
- Color
- multicolor (on demand)
Physical properties
- Density
- 1.18 g/cm³
Mechanical properties
- Elastic modulus
- 5.5 GPa
- Yield strength
- 151 MPa
- Tensile strength
- 110 MPa
- Elongation at break
- 4 %
Other
- Izod impact (notched)
- 40 J
- Heat deflection temperature @0.45 MPa
- 186 °C
Printing characteristics
- Tolerance ±0.2 mm
- Max build 340 × 340 × 320 mm
- Lead time from quote
- Finishes on request
Directional properties (XY vs Z)
Like all FDM materials, it is stronger in the print plane (XY) than across layers (Z). We orient the part to the load.
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