Thermoplastic Composite Flooring

In addition to wood fiber and plastic wpcs can also contain other ligno cellulosic and or inorganic filler materials.

Thermoplastic composite flooring. The technology developed and patented by econcore is unique in design. The thermoplastic composite combining a sandwich panel of pp honeycomb and gmt composite skin. Chemical additives seem practicall. A thermocompression production process transforms a stack of plies into a thermoplastic sandwich structure with very high stiffness to weight ratio impact strength and corrosion resistance.

The floor s beam and panel materials were vacuum consolidated in an oven and then sheet formed via a stamping press at the airbus plant in saint nazaire france. The team wanted to add trunk features and second row seatbelt attachment structures but they also wanted to use the load floor to absorb significant crash energies. Sandwiform is a recyclable thermoplastic composite that consists of a honeycombed cellular core placed between two reinforced thermoplastic skins. With goals to absorb higher impact energy while reducing mass and cost for both the rear and front load floors as well the larger biw structure of which they were a part the decision was made to produce the rear load floor using thermoplastic composites with metallic inserts.

In place of a thermoset composite airbus used cytec s apc 2 thermoplastic unitape a prepreg that combines as4 carbon fiber from hexcel and cytec s peek. The thermoplastic composite combining a sandwich panel of polypropylene pp honeycomb and glass mat thermoplastic gmt composite skin.