Compressive properties of aluminum foams by gas injection method

China Foundry

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 215-220

  Huiming, Zhang ^a   Xiang, Chen ^a,b   Xueliu, Fan ^a   Yanxiang, Li ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ministry of Education   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum foam; Energy absorption; Porosity; Strain rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866521369     PISSN: 16726421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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