A brief review of fly ash as reinforcement for composites with improved mechanical and tribological properties

AK Kasar, N Gupta, PK Rohatgi, PL Menezes - Jom, 2020 - Springer
Fly ash (FA) is one of the particulate wastes generated during combustion of coal in thermal
power plants. Around 110 million tons of FA is generated in the USA every year, and 60% of …

Processing of cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foams using an industrial scale polymer injection molding machine

BRB Kumar, M Doddamani, SE Zeltmann, N Gupta… - Materials & Design, 2016 - Elsevier
Rapid production of high quality components is the key to cost reduction in industrial
applications. The present work is the first attempt of manufacturing syntactic foams, hollow …

Development of glass microballoon/HDPE syntactic foams by compression molding

ML Jayavardhan, BRB Kumar, M Doddamani… - Composites Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermoplastic resins are widely used in consumer products and industrial components.
There is a significant interest in weight reduction of many of those components. Although …

Effect of particle surface treatment and blending method on flexural properties of injection-molded cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foams

BR Bharath Kumar, M Doddamani, SE Zeltmann… - Journal of materials …, 2016 - Springer
The present work on cenosphere/high-density polyethylene (HDPE) syntactic foams aims at
understanding the effect of surface treatment of cenospheres and functionalization of HDPE …

Quasi-static and high strain rates compressive response of iron and Invar matrix syntactic foams

DD Luong, VC Shunmugasamy, N Gupta, D Lehmhus… - Materials & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present work is focused on developing iron and FeNi36 Invar matrix syntactic foams and
studying their properties under quasi-static and high strain rate compression. The quasi …

Mechanical behavior of 3D printed syntactic foam composites

HS Bharath, A Sawardekar, S Waddar, P Jeyaraj… - Composite …, 2020 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional printed (3DP), polymer based syntactic foams are developed using
hollow glass micro balloons (GMB) dispersed in high density polyethylene (HDPE). This …

Dynamic properties of silicon carbide hollow particle filled magnesium alloy (AZ91D) matrix syntactic foams

H Anantharaman, VC Shunmugasamy… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Metal matrix syntactic foams of very low density (0.97 g/cc) were prepared using silicon
carbide hollow particles dispersed in a magnesium alloy (AZ91D) matrix. The composite …

Quasi-static and high strain rate compressive response of injection-molded cenosphere/HDPE syntactic foam

BR Bharath Kumar, AK Singh, M Doddamani… - JOM, 2016 - Springer
High strain rate compressive properties of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) matrix syntactic
foams containing cenosphere filler are investigated. Thermoplastic matrix syntactic foams …

Crushing response of composite metallic foams: density and high strain rate effects

DK Rajak, E Linul - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021 - Elsevier
The emerging demand for lightweight materials has had an impact in several industries,
including biomedical, marine, and space forum applications wherein weight-reduction …

Dynamic and thermal properties of aluminum alloy A356/silicon carbide hollow particle syntactic foams

J Cox, DD Luong, VC Shunmugasamy, N Gupta… - Metals, 2014 - mdpi.com
Aluminum alloy A356 matrix syntactic foams filled with SiC hollow particles (SiCHP) are
studied in the present work. Two compositions of syntactic foams are studied for quasi-static …