PPA-CF
Top tierPPA-CF is a carbon-fibre filled polyphthalamide. Top tier for stiffness and thermal stability: it operates above 200 °C while keeping high mechanical properties. For aerospace, automotive and industrial parts.
Typical applications
- Aerospace
- Automotive racing
- Industrial components
- Light-metal replacement
Property profile
| Strength | 5 / 5 |
|---|---|
| Stiffness | 5 / 5 |
| Toughness | 1.3 / 5 |
| Heat | 4.1 / 5 |
| Printability | 2 / 5 |
| Lightness | 2.4 / 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
- 1.23 g/cm³
Mechanical properties
- Elastic modulus
- 9.9 GPa
- Yield strength
- 208 MPa
- Tensile strength
- 150 MPa
- Elongation at break
- 2 %
Other
- Izod impact (notched)
- 42 J
- Heat deflection temperature @0.45 MPa
- 227 °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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