Plastic

Property

Acrylic

Acrylic sheets are vacuum formed into the desired shape & sprayed w/ a layer of fiberglass to make a durable product.

Acrylic are normally thermoplastic substances, soluble in organic solvents. They vary from polymethylmethacrylate (perspex), a hard glass-clear material, to soft rubbery polymers and waxes.

Chemical Properties

Acrylics tends to be soluble in most aromatic and chlorinated hydrocarbons, esters, ketones and tetrahydrofuran. When cross-linked, they can be insoluble, but will swell in chlorinated hydrocarbons.

They are plasticized by some ester type plasticizer (e.g. dibutylphthalate and trirolylphospate), are swollen by alcohols, phenols, ether and carbon tetrachloride, but are relatively unaffected by aliphatic hydrocarbons, concentrated alkalis, most dilute acids and concentrated hydrochloric acid, aqueous solutions of salts and by oxidizing agents. they are however, decomposed by concentrated oxidising acids and by alkalis in alcoholic solution.

Thermal Properties

Mechanical Properties