Sheffield Plastics Polycarbonate Flat Sheet offer high impact strength
Polycarbonate materials offer a great blend of beneficial features which include temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastic materials.
Polycarbonate is definitely a long-lasting material. Though it offers extraordinary impact-resistance, it's got reduced scratch-resistance and so a hard coating can be applied to polycarbonate eyeglasses lenses as well as polycarbonate exterior automobile equipment. The properties relating to polycarbonate are similar to that of those of common Acrylic materials, except polycarbonate is going to be stronger, it is usable in a wider temperature range and is a bit more expensive. This plastic polymer is highly transparent to visible light and has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of about 150 °C (302 °F), consequently it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools must be held at warm to high temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to make strain- and reduced stress products.
Unlike almost all other thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive changes in basic shape without cracking or breaking. Due to this fact, it could be processed and formed without needing to be heated using standard sheet metal techniques, for instance forming bends with a brake. For even sharp angle bends having a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it attractive prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are needed, which cannot be created from sheet metal. Please keep in mind PMMA/Plexiglas, which is similar in looks to polycarbonate, but is brittle and can't be bent unless it is heated.
Polycarbonate is frequently used in eye protection, and also in other projectile-resistant optical type applications that would normally require the use of glass, but require much greater impact-resistance. Many kinds of lenses are made of polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety goggles for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are typically made up of polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.
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