Unidry® General Information
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Unidry® is a unidirectional carbon fiber dry fabric which can be used in all applications where excellent mechanical and physical properties are required. The main advantages of Unidry® are:
- All filaments are tensioned and absolutely parallel so the fabric can fully utilize the properties of every single fiber, thereby the composite has excellent physical-mechanical properties.
- All broken filaments are removed.
- All filaments are strictly parallel, not twisted to the right or to the left.
- Thickness over the whole fabric’s width is consistent.
- All the physical parameters have very strict tolerance so the weight, fiber content, thickness, width are very precise.
- Excellent suitability for structural components.
- Filaments are constrained by very thin (76 dtex) polyester scrim (3.5 g/m2).
- Unidry® ribbon of 600 mm can be divided into 2-6 parts (with gaps between).
- Packed by one 14-15 kg reel in the box.
AVAILABLE FABRICS:
| Properties |
Values | ||
| Area weight (standard) |
30 g/m2 50 g/m2 80 g/m2 |
100 g/m2 125 g/m2 150 g/m2 |
200 g/m2 300 g/m2 400 g/m2 600 g/m2 |
| Area weight (custom)* |
30 g/m2 - 600 g/m2 | ||
| Production width | max – 1800 mm | ||
| Bonding lay | 76 dtex polyester scrim on 1 or 2 sides (3.5 g/m2) to keep together the carbon structure | ||
| Resin system compatibility | Epoxy Phenolic Polyester Vinyl BMI |
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| Core diameter | 150 mm | ||
AVAILABLE TOWS:
| Manufacturer |
Tow | Tow Size |
UNICARBON® Fabrics |
| DowAksa | AKSAKA A-42 |
24K |
30 g/m2 - 300 g/m2 |
| Toray Industries, Inc. |
T700SC-12000 | 12K |
30 g/m2 - 49 g/m2 |
| Zoltek Corporation | Panex® 35 Continuous Tow |
50K |
50 g/m2 - 600 g/m2 |
*This information is based on our present state of knowledge. UNICARBON® cannot guarantee that the data listed above will be achieved with other processes.