Study of cell irregularity effects on the compression of closed-cell foams

• Main Authors: Shi, Xiaopeng, Liu, Shuangyan, Nie, Hailiang, Lu, Guoxing, Li, Yulong
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Voronoi Foam; Microstructure
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90290; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48484
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Closed-cell aluminum foam is widely used as energy absorbing material. The cell regularity profoundly affects the mechanical behavior of this material. To investigate the influence of irregularity on elastic and plastic behavior of closed-cell foams, the compression behavior of Voronoi foams was sim...