Improvement of aluminium foam technology by tailoring of blowing agent

Scripta Materialia

Volumn 54, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 503-508

  Matijasevic, Biljana ^a   Banhart, John ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; Foaming; Hydrogen desorption; Oxidation

Indexed keywords

BLOWING AGENTS; DESORPTION; FOAMS; HYDROGEN; MELTING; OXIDATION; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALUMINUM FOAMS; FOAMING; HYDROGEN DESORPTION; TITANIUM HYDRIDES;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 28544442464     PISSN: 13596462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2005.10.045     Document Type: Article

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