Akulon® K223-P2

Impact Modified

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
Automotive OEM
MERCEDES
OEM Specification
DBL 5403.00 (2013-12)

Rheological properties

Melt flow index MFI
35
g/10min
MFI test load
2.16
kg
Molding shrinkage (parallel)
1.37
%
Molding shrinkage (normal)
1.45
%

Mechanical properties

Tensile modulus
2500
MPa
Yield stress
70
MPa
Yield strain
4
%
Nominal strain at break
>50
%
Charpy impact strength (+23°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy impact strength (-30°C)
N
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (+23°C)
16
kJ/m²
Charpy notched impact strength (-30°C)
8
kJ/m²

Thermal properties

Temp. of deflection under load (1.80 MPa)
55
°C
Temp. of deflection under load (0.45 MPa)
130
°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (parallel)
1
E-4/°C
Coeff. of linear therm. expansion (normal)
1.4
E-4/°C

Electrical properties

Relative permittivity (100Hz)
3.4
-
Relative permittivity (1 MHz)
3.1
-
Dissipation factor (100 Hz)
80
E-4
Dissipation factor (1 MHz)
200
E-4
Volume resistivity
1E13
Ohm*m
Surface resistivity
Ohm
Electric strength
28
kV/mm
Comparative tracking index
V

Other properties

Water absorption
9
%
Humidity absorption
2.5
%
Density
1110
kg/m³

Rheological calculation properties

Density of melt
915
kg/m³
Thermal conductivity of melt
0.23
W/(m K)
Spec. heat capacity melt
2710
J/(kg K)
Eff. thermal diffusivity
9.28E-8
m²/s

Diagrams