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Material for plastic EA with living hinge
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Chris,
There are a number of materials available to you, depending on the type of fascia you are designing.
If the fascia is a 'soft touch' type, you will naturally get energy absorption from the foam join between the substrate and the TPO/TPE skin. Depending on your requirements you can alter the thickness of foam or density and you should be ok. With this type of fascia, a living hinge can be achieved by altering the section to only consist of TPO/TPE - or even substrate such as PP or PE.
If your fascia isn't a soft touch type - your options get a little more limited - the best way is to design an energy absorber into the component - since this will always be better than just relying on the material properties. I've seen a couple of materials used for this including PP and HDPE, I can't say if either of these worked in practice however.
Depending on the resource available to you, benchmarking against competitors models is always a good option - as well as asking the material manufacturers themselves. Getting the material manufacturers on-board with the design early will always pay dividends later !!!
hope this helps
sean
There are a number of materials available to you, depending on the type of fascia you are designing.
If the fascia is a 'soft touch' type, you will naturally get energy absorption from the foam join between the substrate and the TPO/TPE skin. Depending on your requirements you can alter the thickness of foam or density and you should be ok. With this type of fascia, a living hinge can be achieved by altering the section to only consist of TPO/TPE - or even substrate such as PP or PE.
If your fascia isn't a soft touch type - your options get a little more limited - the best way is to design an energy absorber into the component - since this will always be better than just relying on the material properties. I've seen a couple of materials used for this including PP and HDPE, I can't say if either of these worked in practice however.
Depending on the resource available to you, benchmarking against competitors models is always a good option - as well as asking the material manufacturers themselves. Getting the material manufacturers on-board with the design early will always pay dividends later !!!
hope this helps
sean
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