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Spruce-pine-fir vs. PVF

Spruce-pine-fir belongs to the wood-based materials classification, while PVF belongs to the thermoplastics. There are 10 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (16, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.

For each property being compared, the top bar is spruce-pine-fir and the bottom bar is PVF.

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Material Properties

Density, g/cm3 0.5
1.4
Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI), % 24
23
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 130
110
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 1380
1300
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 47
13
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 86
26
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 85
65
Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K 0.12
0.13
Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s 0.17
0.071
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 6.5
100