PC
High performancePC (Polycarbonate) is a high-performance technical thermoplastic: high impact resistance, excellent optical clarity and good thermal stability. Used for protective enclosures, lighting and structural components.
Typical applications
- Protective enclosures
- Lighting
- Structural components
- Rigid PPE
Property profile
| Strength | 1.5 / 5 |
|---|---|
| Stiffness | 0.2 / 5 |
| Toughness | 1 / 5 |
| Heat | 1.5 / 5 |
| Printability | 3 / 5 |
| Lightness | 2.8 / 5 |
Indicative values (0–5) derived from the specs, normalized across our catalog.
Strengths
- Heat resistant
- Flexible
Worth considering
- Moderate stiffness
- Limited toughness
General
- Technology
- Large Scale
- Material group
- Polymers
- Color
- multicolor (on demand)
Physical properties
- Density
- 1.20 g/cm³
Mechanical properties
- Elastic modulus
- 2.3 GPa
- Yield strength
- 108 MPa
- Tensile strength
- 65 MPa
- Elongation at break
- 100 %
Other
- Izod impact (notched)
- 35 J
- Heat deflection temperature @0.45 MPa
- 117 °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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