This work focuses on the use of metal foams, a relatively new class of materials, for high added-value electromagnetic (EM) shields. First, the Shielding Effectiveness (SE) of aluminum foam slabs is experimentally evaluated, showing very good shielding properties. Successively, accurate numerical models of metal foams are proposed and used in a proprietary Variable-Mesh Parallel Finite Differen...

Polyurethane foam functionalized with β-naphthol was prepared by covalently linking the reagent with the polyurethane foam matrix through –N=N– groups. The reagent-bonded polyurethane foam (β-Nap-PUF) was characterized by use of elemental analysis, UV–visible and IR spectroscopy, thermal analysis (TGA), density, and stability. β-Nap-PUF was found to be very suitable for preconcentration and det...

Aluminum foam is usually used as the core of composite materials by combining it with dense materials, such as in Al foam core sandwich panels and Al-foam-filled tubes, owing to its low tensile and bending strengths. In this study, all-Al foam-filled tubes consisting of ADC12 Al-Si-Cu die-cast aluminum alloy foam and a dense A1050 commercially pure Al tube with metal bonding were fabricated by ...

In the Lost Foam Casting process, melting point temperature of metal, as well as volume and rate of the foam degradation have significant effect on the mold filling pattern. Therefore, gas generation capacity and gas gap length are two important parameters for modeling of mold filling time of the lost foam casting processes. In this paper, the gas gap length at the liquidfoam interface for a lo...

The objective of this work is to study the large deflection of geometrically asymmetric metal foam core sandwich beam under transverse loading by a fiat punch. A yield criterion is proposed for geometrically asymmetric metal foam core sandwich structures, and then analytical solution for the large deflection of a fully clamped slender sandwich beam is obtained, in which the interaction of bendi...

Among materials with complex inner structure are ranked cellular materials, typically represented by trabecular bone and polymer or metal foams. Geometrical similarity of their internal structure allows determination of material characteristics of trabecular bone using models originally developed for analysis of polymer and metal foams. In this paper, mechanical behavior of cellular materials i...

-The characteristics of a number of metal components proposed as impact energy absorbers are reviewed, attention being focussed on to modes of deformation which stem from the axial compression of metal tubes. Progressive buckling, inversion and splitting are discussed and areas for future work identified. The buckling of thin-walled square section tubes filled with polyurethane foam is also des...

Two series of experiments are performed to investigate the dynamic response of various essential components of a class of sandwich structures, under high-rate inertial loads. One consists of dynamic inertia tests and the other involves dynamic impact tests. A split Hopkinson bar apparatus is modified and used for these experiments. First, the energy-absorbing characteristics of the plate materi...

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 7530 wileyonlinelibrary.com consumer electronics, and backup energy systems. [ 2 ] In recent years, great efforts have been dedicated to the development and engineering of new materials and structures for enhanced capacitance performance. [ 3 ] For instance, pseudocapacitors that store energy through reversible Faradaic reactions on the electrod...

The most common steel-making process in the world is the Lintz-Donawitz converter. During operation, a slag foam is created to improve the converter performance. Problems arise when the foam level exceeds the height of the vessel and overflows, causing metal loss, process disruption and environmental pollution. The goal of this study is to design a model-based algorithm exploiting real-time pro...