Material
Glass Fiber FDM Nylon
Glass fiber nylon (PA-GF) adds stiffness, heat resistance, and dimensional stability to nylon at a lower cost than carbon fiber nylon, while retaining significantly better impact resistance and toughness.
Manufacturing processes
About
Glass fiber nylon (PA-GF) reinforces nylon with chopped glass fiber, increasing stiffness, heat resistance, and dimensional stability well beyond unfilled nylon.
Compared to carbon fiber nylon, glass fiber offers roughly a third to half the stiffness improvement, but consistently retains significantly better impact resistance and toughness. Glass fiber composites tend to deform somewhat before failing rather than cracking suddenly, and handle repeated stress or vibration better over time.
PA-GF is also notably cheaper than carbon fiber nylon, doesn't conduct electricity, and can be dyed in a range of colors, unlike carbon fiber's characteristic black.
Glass fiber nylon suits automotive prototypes, structural brackets, industrial jigs and fixtures, and housings near heat sources where cost-effective rigidity matters more than minimizing weight.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.3 mm)
- Density
- 1.09 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 1 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 50 - 70 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 2000 - 3100 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 5 - 20%
- Flexural strength
- 100 - 130 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 3000 - 3500 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 120 - 160°C
- Default layer height
- 0.2 mm
- Default infill
- 20%
- Embossing
- min. 0.5 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.5 mm
- Interlocking parts
- Yes
- Warping risk
- High
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 1,120 × 720 × 620 mm