Solid cellular materials (foams, lattice materials, honeycombs, etc.) are attractive and have resulted in the creation of an active subject for structural, mechanical and material scientists in recent years. Indeed, constant progress in the manufacturing techniques are improving their properties and reducing their costs; and mass productions and industrial applications are beginning. An important mechanical problem is how to characterize and model the mechanical behaviour of these materials, which is necessary for industrial design and numerical predictions involved in various applications such as light weight structures, energy absorbers.
This volume contains twenty-two contributions written by distinguished invited speakers from all part of the world to the iutam symposium on mechanical properties of cellular materials. It provides a survey on recent advances in the characterisation and modeling of the mechanical properties of solid cellular materials under static and dynamic loading as well as their applications in lightweight structures analysis and design. This volume will be of interest to structural, mechanical and material scientists and engineers working on different aspects of this new class of materials (for example in microstructure observation, micromechanical and multiscale modeling, phenomenological models, structural impact behaviour and numerical validation).
Author(s): R. Goodall, Y. Conde, R. Müller (auth.), Han Zhao, Dr. N. A. Fleck (eds.)
Series: IUTAM Bookseries 12
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 216
Tags: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Materials Science, general; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Structural Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Uniaxial Deformation of Microcellular Metals: Model Systems and Simplified Analysis....Pages 1-8
Mechanical Properties and Design of Lattice Composites and Structures....Pages 9-18
Nano-Cellular Materials with Unusual Mechanical and Physical Properties....Pages 19-25
The High Strain Rate Response of Adipose Tissue....Pages 27-33
X Ray Tomography Study of Cellular Materials: Experiments and Modelling....Pages 35-42
Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Lotus-Type Porous Metals....Pages 43-50
Mechanical Behavior of Nickel Base Foams for Diesel Particle Filter Applications....Pages 51-67
Anisotropy in Buckling Behavior of Kelvin Open-Cell Foams Subject to Uniaxial Compression....Pages 69-76
Elastic Buckling of 2-D Random Honeycombs: Does a Representative Volume Element Exists?....Pages 77-86
Mechanical Properties of Semi-expanded Hollow Sphere Structures....Pages 87-95
Indentation Tests on Al Matrix Syntactic Foams....Pages 97-104
Fracture of Metal Foams: A Discrete Modelling Approach....Pages 105-113
Fracture of Foamed Cementitious Materials: A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study....Pages 115-123
Modeling and Simulation of Highly Porous Open Cell Structures: Elasto-Plasticity and Localization Versus Disorder and Defects....Pages 125-134
Mechanical Properties of Crimped Mineral Wools: Identification from Digital Image Correlation....Pages 135-147
Influences of Inertia and Material Property on the Dynamic Behavior of Cellular Metals....Pages 149-157
Shock Enhancement due to Shock Front Propagation in Cellular Materials....Pages 159-167
Close-Range Blast Loading of Aluminium Foam Panels: A Numerical Study....Pages 169-180
Description of the Behaviour of Cellular Composite with Weak Filling Material....Pages 181-187
Studies on the Dynamic Behavior of Aluminum Alloy Foams....Pages 189-196
Computational Modelling of Closed- and Open-Cell Cellular Structures with Fillers....Pages 197-206
Study of Cellular Materials Sandwich Under Dynamic Loading for Bird Strike Application....Pages 207-216
