What are the benefits of acrylic over glass.
Acrylic sheet flexural strength.
It is available in colorless white and black in thick.
For chemically resistant plastic view our chemical resistance of plastics chart.
Acrylic sheet exhibits glass like qualities clarity brilliance and transparency but at half the weight and many times the impact resistance of glass.
Also you may want to use our plastic material selection guide or interactive thermoplastics triangle to assist with the material selection process based on your application requirements.
For materials that deform significantly but do not break the load at yield typically measured at 5 deformation strain of the outer surface is reported as the flexural strength or flexural yield strength.
Flexural strength testing of plastics.
Perspex cell cast acrylic technical data sheet 1.
Flexural strength flexural modulus impact strength charpy unnotched poisson s ratio electrical properties surface resistivity electrical strength iso 1183 iso 2039 2 iso 62 bs 476 part 7.
Its higher impact strength makes it a great glass replacement for applications such as garage door windows storm windows and other glazing needs.
It has superior weathering properties compared to many other transparent plastics.
How does acrylic compare to other plastics in strength.
High tensile compressive flexural and impact strength make phenolic plastics the material of choice for many applications.
In the us customary units it is expressed as pounds.
The international standard unit of flexural modulus is the pascal pa or n m 2 or m 1 kg s 2.
Optix acrylic sheet is a lightweight impact resistant optix acrylic sheet is a lightweight impact resistant transparent material that is a great replacement for glass in many applications.
The flexural strength of a material is defined as its ability to resist deformation under load.
Acrylic is stronger more impact resistant lighter in weight won 8217 t shatter is easier to fabricate and can be easily.
Polycarbonate is strongest followed by petg pet impact modified acrylic sheet then general purpose acrylic sheet.
Interstate plastics offers various specialty grades of phenolic including c grade canvas sheet le grade sheet paper economy grade sheet and g 10 glass epoxy sheet.
Poly methyl methacrylate pmma also known as acrylic acrylic glass or plexiglass as well as by the trade names crylux plexiglas acrylite astariglas lucite perclax and perspex among several others see below is a transparent thermoplastic often used in sheet form as a lightweight or shatter resistant alternative to glass the same material can be used as a casting resin or in inks.
The practical units used are megapascals mpa or n mm 2 or gigapascals gpa or kn mm 2.
It is called as modulus of elasticity in bending but other names are also used such as modulus of elasticity elastic modulus or simply modulus.
