Fiberlam Aircraft Flooring

Fibrelam is manufactured as flat board for fabrication by the end user -usually the airlines. Originally designed as flooring for the wide-bodied Jumbo Jets it is now used as new and replacement flooring in most other leading aircraft. 

Fibrelam is an outstanding example of the plural use of polymers. A number of different polymer systems are combined to produce a material of great stiffness and low weight. 

The complete honeycomb/rigid skin sandwich structure can be considered, for convenience, to be made up of three parts, (a) the core material, (b) the skins and (c) the bonding medium between core and skin. Each will be considered in turn. 

The core is a honeycomb construction consisting of a Nomex base paper bonded together with stripes of phenol formaldehyde (PF) resin adhesive and, after expansion, impregnated with a PF resin. 

Nomex is an aromatic polyamide - type of nylon - made by E.I. du Pont de Nemour Co. Inc. The chemical repeat unit is, 

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