A study of aluminium foam formation - Kinetics and microstructure

Acta Materialia

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2349-2362

  Duarte, I ^a,b   Banhart, J ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED MATERIALS IFAM   (Germany)

^b INETI   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Foams; Kinetics; Powder processing; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001540159     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6454(00)00020-3     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Banhart, J., Manufacture, characterisation and application of cellular metals and metal foams. Prog. Mater. Sci., (in press), 2000.
2. Banhart, J., Foam metal: the recipe, Europhysics News, 1999, 30, 17.
3. Baumeister, J., Verfahren zur Herstellung poröser Metallkörper. German Patent no. 40 18 360, 1990, (see also US Patent no. 5,151,246, 1992).
4. Banhart, J., Baumeister, J. and Weber, M., Powder metallurgical technology for the production of metal foam, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Advanced PM Materials. Birmingham 23-25 October, 1995, p. 201.
5. Banhart, J. and Baumeister, J., Deformation characteristics of metal foams, J. Mater. Sci., 1998, 33, 1431.
6. Banhart, J., Ashby, M. F. and Fleck, N. A., Metal Foams and Porous Metal Structures. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999.
7. Ashby, M. F., Evans, A. G., Hutchinson, J. W. and Fleck, N. A., Metal Foams: a Design Guide, (in press).
8. Simancik, F., Minariková, N., Culák, S. and Kovacík, J., Effect of foaming parameters on the pore size, in Metal Foams and Porous Metal Structures, ed. J. Banhart, M. F. Ashby and N. A. Fleck. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999, p. 105.
9. Körner, C. and Singer, R. F., Numerical simulation of foam formation and evolution with modified cellular automata, in Metal Foams and Porous Metal Structures, ed. J. Banhart, M. F. Ashby and N. A. Fleck. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999, p. 91.
10. Duarte, I., Weigand, P. and Banhart, J., Foaming kinetics of aluminium alloys, in Metal Foams and Porous Metal Structures, ed. J. Banhart, M. F. Ashby and N. A. Fleck. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999, p. 97.
11. Weaire, D. and Hutzler, S., The Physics of Foams. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.
12. Weaire, D. and Banhart, J., Foams and Films. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999.
13. Baumgärtner, F. and Gers, H., Industrialisation of P/M foaming process, in Metal Foams and Porous Metal Structures, ed. J. Banhart, M. F. Ashby and N. A. Fleck. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999, p. 73.
14. Banhart, P. and Weigand, P., Powder metallurgical process for the production of metallic foams, in Proc. Fraunhofer USA Symposium Metallic Foams, ed. J. Banhart and H. Eifert. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1998, p. 13.
15. Weigand, P., Untersuchungen der Einfluβfaktoren auf die pulvermetallurgische Herstellung von Aluminiumschäumen. MIT-Verlag, Bremen, 1999.
16. Davis, J. R. (ed.), Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys. ASM Handbook, ASM Information Society, Materials Park OH, 1993.
17. Massalski, T. B., Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams. ASM Information Society, Materials Park OH, 1986.