Aluminum Honeycomb Panel Manufacturer and Application

 1. Introduction
 Since 2005, We have been produced pre-coated metal and honeycomb panel were developed for new technologies and goods for construction material in 21C.
 Especially, in case of Aluminum Honeycomb Panel, we are the best manufacturer in China which can supply pre-coated aluminum sheet, aluminum honeycomb core material and adhesive material by ourselves in one-stop basis.
 This is frequently used as outstanding interior materials for buildings with high strength flatness and durability. Especially, in 1983, it was introduced to American military and acknowledged for its light weight and strength, and now is being used for a new building exterior materials with superiority. “HIVE Panel” is composition of Aluminum Honey-comb(Air97%+AL.3%) in core and surface AL.sheet, in a high density structure, with the best flatness and strength.

 2. Application
 (1) Curtain Wall
 We Provide Aluminium or Stainless Steel faced panels for exterior and interior architectural applications. PVDF(Kynar 500) for exterior and High-durability polyester finishings are available in standard and custom colors. Especially, newly developed stone pattern and texture type patterns can extend client's color or pattern choice. Panels can be configured for glazed-in and other common methods of installation.

Building Exterior Wall Panel

Roofing

 (2) Displays & Exhibits
 Aluminum Honeycomb panels can provide a lightweight, flat backing for client's graphics, decorative partitions, or signage. They are light, sturdy, and easy to transport.

 (3) Clean-room Walls & Ceilings
 For the special usage for System Ceiling and Clean-room, which requires anti-static treatment, we also provide aluminum honeycomb cored panels with conductive or anti-static coated coatings. Panels can be of any thickness to suit your framing system. Custom lengths are readily available.

 (4) Others
 Except above usage, the HIVE can be act as special purpose of Interior Furniture, partition of Shipbuilding, Stone Composite Panel for Floor,Table, Elevator interior, Toilet Partition, Machinery Components,Instrument, Science projects and Aerospace.

Stone Honeycomb for Floor and Table

Furniture for Vessel

Cloth Chest for Vessel

Bedroom for Vessel

Honeycomb Application for Furniture

Toilet Door & Partition

Bending Behavior of Aluminum Honeycomb Sandwich Panels

 Aluminum sandwich construction has been recognized as a promising concept for structural design of light weight systems such as wings of aircraft. A sandwich construction, which consists of two thin facing layers separated by a thick core, offers various advantages for design of weight critical structure. Depending on the specific mission requirements of the structures, aluminum alloys, high tensile steels, titanium or composites are used as the material of facings skins. Several core shapes and material may be utilized in the construction of sandwich among them, it has been known that the aluminum honeycomb core has excellent properties with regard to weight savings and fabrication costs. This paper is theoretically calculate bending behavior, of sandwich panels and to compare the strength to weight ratios of Normal Aluminium rod(panel) and Aluminium Honey Comb Panel .

 1.INTRODUCTION

 Sandwich panels are used for design and construction of lightweight transportation systems such as satellites, aircraft, missiles, high speed trains. Structural weight saving is the major consideration and the sandwich construction is frequently used instead of increasing material thickness. This type of construction consists of thin two facing layers separated by a core material. Potential materials for sandwich facings are aluminum alloys, high tensile steels, titanium and composites depending on the specific mission requirement. Several types of core shapes and core material have been applied to the construction of sandwich structures. Among them, the honeycomb core that consists of very thin foils in the form of hexagonal cells perpendicular to the facings is the most popular. A sandwich construction provides excellent structural efficiency, i.e., with high ratio of strength to weight. Other advantages offered by sandwich construction are elimination of welding, superior insulating qualities and design versatility. Even if the concept of sandwich construction is not very new, it has primarily been adopted for non-strength part of structures in the last decade. This is because there are a variety of problem areas to be overcome when the sandwich construction is applied to design of dynamically loaded structures. To enhance the attractiveness of sandwich construction, it is thus essential to better understand the local strength characteristic of individual sandwich panel/beam members.

 The conventional single skin structure, which is of single plates reinforced with main frames and stiffeners normally necessitates a fair amount of welding, and has a considerable length of weld seams. Further, the lighter but thinner plates employed tend to increase weld distortions that may in some cases require more fabrication work to rectify. More weld seams also mean a greater number of fatigue initiation locations as well. Honeycomb sandwich construction, with a honeycomb core is sandwiched by two outer facing skins is better able to cope with such difficulties. 

  Sandwich panels also provide added structural weight savings in the structure. It is for these reasons that the sandwich construction has been widely adopted for large weight critical structures. Honeycomb-cored sandwich panels have been used as strength members of satellites or aircraft, thus efficiently reducing their structural weight. In the railroad industry, passenger coaches of high-speed trains such as the TGV have been designed and fabricated using aluminum honeycomb sandwich panels. Recently, attempts to use aluminum sandwich panels as strength members of high-speed vessel hulls have also been made.This paper deals with the design and analysis of aerospace lifting surface with honeycomb core. Lifting surfaces are essentially designed to take up bending loads due to lift. Bending stresses will be maximum at the top and bottom surfaces, low stresses at the middle. Honeycomb panel construction suits this requirement, where top and bottom skin takes the bending load. To understand the bending behavior of honeycomb Sandwich panels, analysis is carried out for the specimen level three point bending test. The honeycomb sandwich construction is one of the most valued structural engineering innovations developed by the composites industry.

 2.MATERIALS SELECTION

 The honeycomb sandwich construction can comprise an unlimited variety of materials and panel configurations. The composite structure provides great versatility as a widerange of core and facing material combinations can be selected. The following criteria should be considered in the routine selection of core, facing, and adhesive.

 2.1 Structural Considerations Strength: Honeycomb cores and some facing materials are directional with regard to mechanical properties and care must be taken to ensure that the materials are orientated in the panel to take the best advantage of this attribute. Stiffness: Sandwich structures are frequently used to maximize stiffness at very low weights. Because of the relatively low shear modulus of most core materials, however, the deflection calculations must allow for shear deflection of the structure in addition to the bending deflections usually considered. Adhesive Performance: The adhesive must rigidly attach the facings to the core material in order for loads to be transmitted from one facing to the other. Suitable adhesives include high modulus, high strength materials available as liquids, pastes or dry films. As a general rule, a low peel strength, or relatively brittle adhesive should never be used with very light sandwich structures which may be subjected to abuse or damage in storage,handling or service. Cell Size: A large cell size is the lower cost option, but in combination with thin skins may result in telegraphing, i.e. a .dimpled. outer surface of the sandwich. A small cell size will give an improved surface appearance, and provides a greater bonding area, but at higher cost. Cell Shape: Normally supplied with hexagonal cell shapes, a few honeycomb types can be supplied with rectangular cell shapes 

 2.2 Skin Materials: Skin considerations include the weight targets, possible abuses and local (denting) loads, corrosion or decorative constraints, and costs. Facing material thickness directly affects both the skin stress and panel deflection. Adhesive Materials: For honeycomb sandwich bonding, the following criteria are important: Fillet Forming: To achieve a good attachment to an open cell core such as honeycomb, the adhesive should flow sufficiently to form a fillet without running away from the skin to core joint. Bond Line Control: Every Endeavour should be made to ensure intimate contact between the parts during bonding, as the adhesive needs to fill any gaps between the bonding surfaces. Adhesives are often supplied supported by a carrier cloth, for the purpose of helping them to remain in place where the parts are squeezed particularly tightly together.

 3.SANDWICH PANEL LOADS

 3.1 Loads: Consider a cantilever beam with a load applied at the free end. The applied load creates a bending moment which is a maximum at the fixed end, and a shear force along the length of the beam. In a sandwich panel these forces create tension in the upper skin and compression in the lower skin. The core spaces the facing skins and transfers shear between them to make the composite panel work as a homogeneous structure. Cantilever beam with hexagonal core is shown in Fig 2.

 3.2 Deflections: The deflection of a sandwich panel is made up from bending and shear components. The bending deflection is dependant on the relative tensile and compressive module of the skin materials. The shear deflection is dependant on the shear modulus of the core. Total Deflection = Bending Deflection + Shear Deflection.

Stainless steel honeycomb panel

Stainless steel honeycomb panel is a sandwich panel consisting of stainless steel plates as face panels, and high pressure low density PE as core materials. It is of corrosion resistant, free of painting, good mechanical property.

Good points of stainless steel honeycomb panel

1.Super strength, good bending resistant and relatively light weight
2.Good corrosion resistant
3.Free of painting and with stainless steel texture
4.Stainless steel saving and cost effective
Dimensions of Stainless steel honeycomb panel

1.thickness:4mm--600mm
2.Width: 50mm--1500mm
3.Length:100mm--5000mm

Corrugated aluminum composite panel

Corrugated aluminum composite panel is a kind of external construction material of high strength, which was only applied to the aeronautic industry in the past. The surface layer of corrugated aluminum composite panel is aluminum alloy sheet, while the central layer is the corrugated core structure made of aluminum, which has excellent rigidity and is the best one of the metallic wall material available today. Nowadays, corrugated aluminum composite panel has been widely used in the decoration of modern architecture, train, automobile and ship manufacturing industries.

Features: 

1) Convenient installation, easy maintenance 

2) Excellent heat insulation, sound insulation and smoothness 

3) Light and Convenient, Only 4.3kg/M2 

4) Various colors available 

5) Last but most is that is class A1 fireproof aluminum composite panel. 

6) Environmental protection product. It not only can be used as decorations, but also can be used for aircraft, train, ships and so on.

Specifications: 

1) Panel thickness: Skin thickness+Core Thickness(4.6mm or 8.6mm)+Skin Thickness 

2) Width: 1020mm, 1250mm, 1550mm 

3) Length: maximal length: 6000mm

Furniture Aluminum honeycomb panel

Aluminum honeycomb panel is widely used in furniture industry, suitable for panel-type furniture, such as 18mm or above side panel, face panel, base panel, door panel or partition. The thicker is the panel, the more merits the aluminum honeycomb panel appears to have.
Application of aluminum honeycomb panel:
Aluminum honeycomb tabletop, desktop, bar-top, cupboard, door or cabinet.

Strong points of Aluminum honeycomb furniture

1.“Three Proofs”: Moisture proof, Mothproof, Fireproof.

2.Light weight but good strength: The hexagonal honeycomb structure magically reduces the panel weight. This characteristic is especially important for super large, super long, super wide furniture. The finished aluminum honeycomb furniture is no longer cumbersome, but easy to be moved or for transportation from one room to another room.

3.Environmental: Aluminum honeycomb panel doesn’t contain any toxic matters, doesn’t volatilize any poisonous gas to the environment, doesn’t radiate. It is eco-friendly, good to human body, especially for babies.

4.Free of thermal expansion and shrinking effect: Under the changing weather condition, the traditional wooden furniture is easy to become deformed or distort. On the contrast, aluminum honeycomb furniture can keep unchanged even under highly fluctuating weather, thus maintain the original furniture design and prolong the using life span.

5.Easy to be processed into any creative designs or special shapes. The aluminum honeycomb panel is flexible but strong enough thus can be processed into different shapes for some crazy design ideas.

Dimensions of aluminum honeycomb panel for furniture use
A) Aluminum skin thickness: 0.5--4mm
B) Total Thickness: 4mm--600mm
C) Length: 300mm--6000mm
D) Width: 300mm--1500mm.
E) Special size is available as required.

Fiberglass(FRP) Honeycomb Panel

THE LOW COST SOLUTION FOR HONEYCOMB COMPOSITE PRODUCTS!
Our honeycomb composite panel laminated by fiberglass sheet is a low cost solution for honeycomb composite products.

The FRP honeycomb sandwich panels we produce is made of FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic) sheet as surface and aluminum honeycomb in the core. This product is widely used for dry cargo truck body building and containers.
Product feature:
Light weight
High strength
Insulation
Sound and Vibration Dampening
Water, moisture, corrosion and chemical resistant
Environmental protection

Technical Propoerties:

Aluminum Honeycomb panel

Aluminum Honeycomb panel is structured of the interlining of honeycomb type. It is a kind of high strength external building material, which was only applied in the aeronautic industry in the past. The surface layer of such panel is aluminum alloy sheet, while the central layer is the honeycomb structure made of aluminum foil. Aluminum Honeycomb panel has the characteristics of light weight, high intensity, high stiffness, strong corrosion resistance and stable performance. Compared to other wall decoration materials, Aluminum Honeycomb panel has good heat preservation and heat insulation. The reason is that the air between the face and the bottom layer is separated into lots of cellular closed holes, for which the propagation of heat and sound wave is extremely limited. Today, aluminum honeycomb panel has been widely used in the decoration of modern architectures, train, auto mobile and ship manufacturing industries.

Product Features:
Weight
One of the primary reasons for utilizing aluminum honeycomb panels is that they exhibit excellent strength-to-weight ratios compared to traditional construction materials.

Strength
The ability to configure panels with different materials allows us to create much stronger panels than one can achieve with solid structures.

The skill
 however, is in analyzing all of the material choices for meeting your specifications and then selecting those that will provide the most functionality at the lowest cost.

Fire Resistance
Liming uses a number of materials that are non-combustible and self extinguishing. Most flammability ratings and building codes can be easily met with some combination of materials.

Thermal Control
Most aluminum honeycomb panels have excellent insulation properties simply due to the nature in which they are designed. Since both honeycomb and foam cores trap air between the skins, they are inherently insulating to some degree.

Sound Control
While we do not specialize in acoustical panels, we are happy to incorporate any type of sound deadening specifications into the composite panels that we design.

Impact Resistance
Impact resistance can be accounted for by adjusting the honeycomb cell size, utilizing different core materials and skins, or adding thickness to the surface material and/or core.

Moisture Resistance
All types of aluminum and plastic honeycomb cores can be used to improve water and moisture resistance, but RFP surface materials can also do the job for many applications.

Corrosion Resistance
Not only can we utilize different core and surface materials to achieve resistance to weather and chemicals, but coatings can be applied for added security.

Honeycomb Materials were born for Aviatic applications in the beginning, and they have been widely acknowledged for their unique stiffness-to-weight-ratio. Our manufacturing facility has succeeded in bringing it into commercial application. It consists of an expanded 3003 alloy hexagonal aluminum honeycomb core in the middle, and a sheet of 3003 H24 aluminum bonded to each side with an Epoxy adhesive agent. This sandwich structure gives this product high strength and a super-flat surface. Aluminum honeycomb core has the advantage of Lightness, so it is very light in weight for transportation and installation.

The traditional thermal pressing equipment, not only has low working efficiency, but most likely will cause the panel to deform or bend due to the sudden change of temperature when panels come out of the press. Our updated Automatic Composite Honeycomb Panel Production Lines produce the honeycomb panel with the following

steps:
Feed in → Low Temperature → Middle Temperature → High Temperature → Middle Temperature →Low Temperature → Cooling and Figuration → Product out
This continuous and integrated production process is done in a completely sealed environment under high pressure. It efficiently avoids the problems before they occur. The honeycomb panel produced by this production process will never deform even if the application environment is damp or subjected to high temperature.

Polycore Aluminium Honeycomb core panels are panels that can be used for a wide variety of applications.

Aluminium Honeycombs possess an excellent strength to weight ratio, and is applicable almost anywhere where lightness and strength are required and its uses are therefore virtually unlimited.

Polycore supplies Aluminium Honeycomb panels tailored to the exact customer requirements.

Polycore Aluminium Honeycomb can be supplied as full Blocks or cut slices, expanded or unexpanded, laminated with fiberglass, bonded to plain or anodized Aluminium sheet.

Aluminum honeycomb ceiling panel

Aluminum honeycomb ceiling is light weight. The weight is only one third of solid aluminum panel. It is of large size, superb flatness, no distortion, which is the ideal choice for large-scale ceiling project. Many simple methods are available to install aluminum honeycomb ceiling.

Due to its good strength, high toughness, aluminum honeycomb ceiling can be resist heavy loading capacity. It is even possible for special staff to stand on the ceiling for maintenance. Furthermore, it is very good at sound-damping and heat insulation.

The aluminum honeycomb panel can be also used in vihecle ceiling for only decoration purpose, but also structural function.

Ship hull building aluminum honeycomb panel (boat building purpose panel)

Strong points of using aluminum honeycomb as boat or ship making materials

1.Light weight for ship.Weight is an important factor for any ship or boat, especially for high speed ship. Adopting aluminum honeycomb panel as ship hull or interior decoration materials will reduce the ship weight to a great extent, thus increasing the sailing speed, reducing fuel.

2.Fireproofing for ship. Using aluminum honeycomb panel can prevent fire flame from spreading and reduce smoke.

3.Durable and increasing ship life span. Aluminum honeycomb panel is durable and fatigue resistant, impact resistant, weathering resistant.

4.Good decoration effect. The panel surface can be treated into different finish, such as mirror face or wood texture face. It can also be composited with other decoration materials.

5.Moisture proof and moth proof. This property will increase the ship or boat safety index.

Stone/Granite/marble Aluminium Honeycomb Panel

It consists of a natural and super-thin Stone veneer (3mm-5mm) and an aluminum honeycomb panel, tightly bonded together through aeronautic bonding technology.

1. Strong points of stone/granite/marble honeycomb panel
(1) Light weight, the standard stone granite marble honeycomb panel weights 16kg per square meter, which is 1/5 of that of the pure stone panel.
(2) High intensity and high capability of anti-strike; its intensity is 10 times of that of the 3cm-thick-granite.
(3) Good quality of sound insulation and heat insulation.
(4) Convenient to construction, easy to installation
(5) Low weight, lower burden to the building, increase building life span

2. Usage stone/granite/marble honeycomb panel
Curtain wall, table top, interior and exterior decoration

3. Dimension stone/granite/marble honeycomb panel
Thickness:15mm-600mm
Standard Size: Width300mm-1200mm.Length 300mm-2000mm
Max Size: 1500mmx6000mm
Special size of stone granite marble honeycomb panel can be made as required by the customer.

aluminum honeycomb panel facade,curtain wall,cladding

Compared to other cladding materials, aluminum honeycomb facade has unparalleled strong points.

1.Green, environmental and energy-saving facade/curtail wall materials
Aluminum honeycomb panel facade is all aluminum structure, a kind of green and energy-saving building materials, which is called as the best curtail wall material in 21st century.

2. Light weight, hyper strength, good rigidity, stable structure, wind pressure resistant.
Thanks to the light weight of aluminum honeycomb facade, hyper strength and good rigidity, it is now widely used in interior and exterior decoration. Fifteen mm thick panel of 1mm face panel weighs only 6 Kg per square meter. With the same rigidity, the aluminum honeycomb panel’s weight is only one fifth of solid aluminum panel’s, and one tenth of steel panel’s. Interconnected aluminum honeycomb functions as numerous I shapes, distributed evenly in the panel. This structure makes the whole aluminum honeycomb facade panel very stable, not easy to be bended. Its wind-pressure resistance is much better than aluminum composite panel and solid aluminum panel. Furthermore, aluminum honeycomb facade does not tend to distort or deform, has good flatness. Even if the aluminum honeycomb facade panel is large-size, it can still keep superb flatness.

3.Sound proof, thermal insulation, fireproof and shake damping.
That the aluminum honeycomb core is divided into many sealed cells blocks the airflow. It also blocks the heat and sound wave transmission. Its heat conductivity is only 0.0424/m.k, and energy-absorbing index is 150-3500KJ/M, while the noises-damping index is 20-30DB under sound of 100-3200HZ. In heavy rain, when the rain drops fall on solid aluminum panel or ACP, great noises will come out, while aluminum honeycomb panel can greatly avoid this. All in all, compared to ACP and solid aluminum panel, aluminum honeycomb facade panel as effectively solves the problem of noises making under rain and heat-transmission.

4.Striking flatness, and various colors
Aluminum honeycomb facade panel of different specifications has very good flatness and doesn’t tend to distort or deform. HongZan-produced aluminum honeycomb panel uses pre-painted PVDF aluminum plate, which guarantees that the products have no color difference, that the quality is reliable, and that the façade color can be fresh for a long time. Long exposed to rain, sunshine and industrial pollution, the pre-painted PVDF aluminum honeycomb façade panel is cleaner and more shinning than spray-painting panels. Moreover, roller-painted aluminum honeycomb panel has very good adhesiveness and weathering resistance, which is widely recognized as one of the best building materials.

5.Good decoration effect, easy and fast installation
According to different requirements, the honeycomb face panels can be replaced with different materials, such as aluminum panel, stainless steel panel. According to the architectural design from construction companies, façade aluminum honeycomb panel is fabricated into finished product of different size, shapes after cutting, grooving. Therefore, the installation is easy for the end-users.
According to individual customer’s requirement, We can tailor the aluminum panels into different thickness for different environment. For high-rise building cladding, we have maximum 600mm thick aluminum honeycomb facade panel. For low building facade or interior decoration, we have minimum 4mm thick aluminum honeycomb panel.