Forming of aluminum foam sandwich panels: Numerical simulations and experimental tests

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 177, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 364-367

  Contorno, D ^a   Filice, L ^b   Fratini, L ^a   Micari, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AFS; FEM; Foams

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOAMS; FORMING;

AFS; MATERIAL DENSITY; POROUS MATERIAL MODELS;

STRUCTURAL PANELS;

EID: 33745846788     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2006.04.028     Document Type: Article

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