Shock enhancement of aluminum foam under impact loading using FEM simulations

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 160-162, Issue , 2011, Pages 1077-1082

  Xiang, Xinmei ^a   Li, Yulong ^a   Suo, Tao ^a   Hou, Bing ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum foam; Relative density; Sample length; Shock enhancement; Shock wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM FOAM; RELATIVE DENSITY; SAMPLE LENGTH; SHOCK ENHANCEMENT; SHOCK WAVE VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHOCK WAVES;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78650927684     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.160-162.1077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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