High Impact Polystyrene [HIPS]
Details
HIPS filament is made from a High Impact Polystyrene material and it is another example of support 3d materials. This material is well spread in food industry for packaging.
It is also used to pack CD discs and to produce trays in medicine Naturally this filament has bright white color and it is also biodegradable so there are no adverse effect when it is put in tight contact with a human or animal body.
HIPS filaments have curling and adhesion problems, which can be reduced by using a heated bed during the printing. HIPS material that can also be used as support structure during the printing and then dissolved in a colorless liquid hydrocarbon Solution.
Tech Specifications
- Density - 1.0 g/cm³ (62 lb/ft³)
- Dielectric Strength (Breakdown Potential) - 18 kV/mm (0.7 V/mil)
- Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus - 1.9 GPa (0.28 x 10⁶ psi)
- Elongation at Break - 40 %
- Flexural Strength - 62 MPa (9.0 x 10³ psi)
- Glass Transition Temperature - 100 °C (210 °F)
- Heat of Combustion (HOC) - 43 MJ/kg
- Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) - 18 %
- Poisson's Ratio - 0.41
- Specific Heat Capacity - 1400 J/kg-K
- Strength to Weight Ratio - 32 kN-m/kg
- Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS) - 32 MPa (4.6 x 10³ psi)
- Thermal Conductivity - 0.22 W/m-K
- Thermal Diffusivity - 0.16
- Thermal Expansion - 80 µm/m-K
- Vicat Softening Temperature - 110 °C (230 °F)
- Water Absorption After 24 Hours - 0.08%
Material Properties of High Impact Polystyrene [HIPS]
- Temperature - 225°C
- Flow Tweak - 0.91
- Bed Temperature - 90°C
- Bed Preparation - apply glue stick 2 layer & then abs glue 1 layer