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Spruce-pine-fir vs. PPO

Spruce-pine-fir belongs to the wood-based materials classification, while PPO 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 PPO.

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Material Properties

Density, g/cm3 0.5
1.1 to 1.4
Dielectric Strength (Breakdown Potential), kV/mm 0.5
19 to 21
Elongation at Break, % 1.5
3.5 to 28
Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI), % 24
32
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 130
100 to 110
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 1380
1020 to 1250
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 47
16 to 27
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 86
33 to 42
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 85
63 to 140
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 6.5
25 to 60