Akulon® F232-D

High Viscosity

General Information

Akulon® is our family of high performance polyamide 6 and polyamide 66 materials, used by customers across the world in applications ranging from automotive, electronics & electrical, to furniture and packaging.
We offer Akulon® grades for injection molding, blow molding and extrusion (including barrier film, stock shapes, convoluted tubes, and mono and multi filament).
In molded parts the material offers an excellent balance of easy design and processing with outstanding mechanical properties over a wide temperature range and in diverse conditions. Meanwhile for extrusion the strength, resilience and easy processing of Akulon® sets the market standards.
Special features
Regulatory Affairs
Processing technology
Injection Molding

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
3300
MPa
Yield stress
85
MPa
Yield strain
4
%
Nominal strain at break
25
%
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy impact strength (-30°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
6
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
4
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Melting temperature (10°C/min)
220
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
60
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
160
°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
1
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
1.4
E-4/°C
Burning Behav. at 1.5 mm nom. thickn.
HB
class
Thickness tested
1.5
mm
UL recognition
Yes
-
Burning Behav. at 3.0 mm nom. thickn.
HB
class
Thickness tested
3
mm
UL recognition
Yes
-
Relative Temperature Index - electrical
65
°C
RTI electrical (Thickness (1) tested)
1.5
mm
Relative Temperature Index - electrical
65
°C
RTI electrical (Thickness (2) tested)
3
mm
Relative Temperature Index - with impact
65
°C
RTI with impact (Thickness (1) tested)
1.5
mm
Relative Temperature Index - with impact
65
°C
RTI with impact (Thickness (2) tested)
3
mm
Relative Temperature Index - without impact
65
°C
RTI without impact (Thickness (1) tested)
1.5
mm
Relative Temperature Index - without impact
65
°C
RTI without impact (Thickness (2) tested)
3
mm

Electrical properties

Relative permittivity (100Hz)
3.9
-
Relative permittivity (1 MHz)
3.4
-
Dissipation factor (100 Hz)
110
E-4
Dissipation factor (1 MHz)
220
E-4
Volume resistivity
1E13
Ohm*m
Surface resistivity
Ohm
Electric strength
27
kV/mm
Comparative tracking index
600
V

Other properties

Water absorption
10
%
Humidity absorption
3
%
Density
1130
kg/m³

Material specific properties

Viscosity number
214
cm³/g

Rheological calculation properties

Density of melt
960
kg/m³
Thermal conductivity of melt
0.23
W/(m K)
Spec. heat capacity melt
2680
J/(kg K)
Eff. thermal diffusivity
8.82E-8
m²/s

Diagrams