Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

Dynamic compressive behaviour of cellular materials is crucial to their applications in
energy absorption, ballistic mitigation and blast/impact protection. The recent research …

The pore collapse mechanisms of closed-cell aluminium foams during quasi-static
compression have been investigated. A suite of experiments and numerical simulations …

It has been well established that ALPORAS® foams is a strain rate sensitive material.
However, the strain rate effect is not well quantified as it is not unusual for strain rate to vary …

Abstract In this study, Integral-Forming Method (IFM) of preparing aluminum foam sandwich
(AFS) has been developed based on traditional melt foaming method which possesses the …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) finite element models based on computed tomography
(CT) images are developed to investigate the strain-rate effect on the compressive …

Considering the lack of abundant experimental data on metal foams under tensile triaxial
loadings, characterization of the yield surface of metallic foam is controversial. In this paper …

The detailed deformation and plastic collapse mechanisms of closed-cell Al foams under
uniaxial compressive loading, which govern the energy absorption capacity of the foam …

We present a comprehensive experimental study of the variation in apparent unloading
elastic modulus of polymer (largely elastic), aluminium (largely plastic) and fibre-reinforced …

This paper shows an efficient methodology based on micromechanical framework and grid
nanoindentation for the assessment of effective elastic properties on several types of …