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(a) (b)<br />

Figure 2. 20. Crushing strength vs. foam density: a)Al-SiC and b)AlCu4 alloy closed<br />

cell foam, (Source: Santosa and Wierzbicki 1998b).<br />

Compression behavior of Al foams was simulated by using a unit cell geometry<br />

consists of two hemispheres and five layered multi-cell structure, Figure 2.21(Meguid,<br />

et al. 2002). Experimental density measurements showed certain density variations<br />

through the in-plane and transverse directions. In the simulations, the layer density was<br />

altered by varying the unit cell wall thickness. The crush behavior and load vs.<br />

deformation curves of the simulations and the experiments showed good agreement for<br />

both directions, transverse and in plane. The deformation behavior of a uniform density<br />

multiple cell model was also examined in the same study. In this case, the model could<br />

not accurately capture the localization behavior of the foam, and the resulting nominal<br />

stress–strain curves showed unrealistic numerical oscillations.<br />

Czekanski et al. (Czekanski, et al. 2005b) proposed a 3D unit cell geometry for<br />

modeling the deformation behavior of Al closed-cell foams. Proposed unit cell<br />

combined the ellipsoid small and pseudo-octagonal large cells as shown in Figures<br />

2.22(a) and (b). Multi-cell finite element models were used to study the effect of<br />

individual cell size shape and the foam density on the collapse load and energy<br />

absorption. Simulation results showed geometrical parameters of multi-cell foam model<br />

had insignificant effects on the overall behavior of Al foam (Czekanski, et al. 2005a,<br />

Czekanski, et al. 2005b).<br />

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