What Are The Composites Of Lamination?
Lamination is the art of adding protection to certain materials by the help of heat, adhesives, pressures or through welding. Through this technique the materials are manufactured in a number of layers.
Materials
The type of material that is used in the lamination process depends on a number of different things. The first and foremost is the object that has to be laminated. Even the materials used in lamination will depend greatly on the objects. The materials used will either be exactly the same or a little different from each other, depending on the object which is being laminated.
Many windshields that are placed inside cars and other automobiles are created by placing a very strong plastic film in between two thick glasses in order to add strength to the windshield. In laminate flooring, plywood is also laminated. In this kind of lamination, mostly the same kind of material is used throughout the process. Wooden strips are usually laminated in order to be turned in to beams. One reason for this is that beams is quality control as all the beams can easily be selected and inspected before they are used for important components.
Materials for building
Melamine adhesives and plywood are very important laminate materials used in laminating. A new kind of High Pressure Decorative Laminate (HPDL) is produced with the aid of wood veneer or a multi-laminate veneer acting as the top mist surface. High pressure laminates are laminates which are most commonly molded and then cured at pressures which are below 1000 lb. per square for 70 kg per square cm. More commonly, the range can be 1200 – 2000 lb. per square when the material is 84 – 140 kg per square meter. Low pressure laminates are a bit different with molding and curing taking place at 400 pounds per square cm.
Paper products
Crenellated fiberboard boxes are common examples of the lamination process where the inner layer is for strength and the outer layer is for smoothness. Photographs are common laminates where the picture is protected from fingerprint marks, creases, wedges, fading, wrinkled and water damaged etc.