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I second the idea that unless you specifically need Kevlar face
sheets, it is overkill and a totally needless expense. It is relatively easy to make your own but if you want commercially available stuff the two largest commercial suppliers a http://www.bellcomb.com/ and . . . http://www.panelteccorp.com/ Note that if you mention that you got their contact information from an aviation-related source they will hang up on you immediately. If you are doing anything OTHER than aviation they will talk to you just fine. Both companies can probably ID the product from the photos you have, but again--unless you have a specific spec for Kevlar, fiberglass is much cheaper and infinitely easier to work with. The core choice is driven by what the panel will be exposed to in terms of temp, chemicals, and the required thickness. There are a few major families of foam, each with good but differing properties. There is also honeycomb of various types, which are suited to particular situations but require a little extra work and ideally should have glue sheet between the face sheets and the core. Take-home message--stick with foam if you can. In our own project we recently switched away from honeycomb cores and went back to Divinycell. Counter-intuitively, this saved both money and weight. |
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