Weight savings by aluminum metal foams: Production, properties and applications in automotive

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Eifert, Harald ^a   Yu, Chin Jye ^a   Banhart, John ^b   Baumeister, Joachim ^b   Seeliger, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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

^c Karmann GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AUTOMOBILES; METAL DRAWING;

3-DIMENSIONAL; ABSORPTION BEHAVIORS; ALUMINUM METAL; AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; FOAM SANDWICHES; FOAMING PROCESS; HIGH STIFFNESS; WEIGHT SAVING;

METAL FOAMS;

EID: 85072443197     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/1999-01-0887     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Banhart J., Baumeister J., Production Methods for Metallic Foams, Proceedings of 1998 MRS Metal Foam Symposium (in press)
2. Baumeister J., and Schrader H., "Method for Manufacturing Foamable Metal Bodies" U.S. Patent No. 5,151,246.
3. Yu C.J., Eifert H.H., Knüwer M., Weber M., and Baumeister J., Investigation for the Selection of Foaming Agents to Produce Steel Foams, Proceedings of 1998 MRS Metal Foam Symposium (in press)
4. Banhart J., Baumeister J., Weber M., Powder Metallurgical Technology for the Production of Metal Foam. Proc. European Conf. on Advanced PM Materials Birmingham 23.-25. 10. 1995, p. 201
5. Banhart J., Baumeister J.,: Deformation Characteristics of Metal Foams, J. Mat. Sci., 1998 (in press)