D4066 - 01A Nylon Injection and Extrusion Materials.pdf

Designation: D 4066 – 01a Standard Classification System for Nylon Injection and Extrusion Materials (PA) 1 This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 4066; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval. This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense. 1. Scope * 1.1 This classification system covers nylon materials suit- able for injection molding and extrusion. Some of these compositions are also suitable for compression molding and application from solution. 1.2 The properties included in this classification system are those required to identify the compositions covered. There may be other requirements necessary to identify particular charac- teristics important to specialized applications. These may be specified by using the suffixes as given in Section 5. 1.3 This classification system and subsequent line call-out (specification) are intended to provide a means of calling out plastic materials used in the fabrication of end items or parts. It is not intended for the selection of materials. Material selection should be made by those having expertise in the plastic field after careful consideration of the design and the performance required of the part, the environment to which it will be exposed, the fabrication process to be employed, the costs involved, and the inherent properties of the material other than those covered by this classification system. 1.4 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. 1.5 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the test methods portion, Section 11, of this classification system. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibili