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Figure 2. 19. Yield strength vs. relative density of pure Al, AlMg10 and solution treated<br />

AlMg10 foam (Source: Han, et al. 1998)<br />

One of the earliest metal foam modeling studies using an unit cell geometry was<br />

performed by Santosa and Wierzbicki (Santosa and Wierzbicki 1998b). The unit cell<br />

geometry was a truncated cube comprising cruciform web and pyramidal <strong>section</strong>s. The<br />

crushing of truncated cube unit cell model was progressive folding initiated at the<br />

cruciform <strong>section</strong> and followed by plastic collapse in the pyramidal <strong>section</strong>. Good<br />

agreements between the simulation, analytical modeling and experimental uniaxial<br />

compression of HYDRO and IFAM Al closed-cell foam were found (Figure 2.20).<br />

However, CYMAT and ALCAN foams showed experimentally much lower crushing<br />

strength than the predicted values. This was attributed to the differences in the foam<br />

morphological structures between the investigated Al foams, leading to the difference in<br />

the crushing strengths.<br />

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