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CHAPTER 2<br />

AL CLOSED CELL FOAMS: PROCESSING AND<br />

2.1. Introduction<br />

CRUSHING BEHAVIOR<br />

The mechanical and physical properties and the application fields of metal foams are<br />

outlined in Figure 2.1, (Banhart 2005). Metal foams have relatively low densities as<br />

compared with the metals from which they are made, very long plateau stress region<br />

extending to 50-60% strains and relatively good damping properties. Therefore, they<br />

have great potentials to be used in the construction of light weight, energy absorbing<br />

structures, as well as in the structures involved acoustic and thermal insulation<br />

management. Currently, on the research basis, metal foams made of various metals such<br />

as steel (Park and Nutt 2002), magnesium(Wen, et al. 2004), zinc(Kitazono and<br />

Takiguchi 2006) and Al(Song, et al. 2001) haven been investigated, while only Al<br />

closed cell foams are commercially produced for the structural applications.<br />

Figure 2. 1. General application areas of metal foams.<br />

(Source: Banhart 2005)<br />

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