[HTML][HTML] Syntactic foams formulations, production techniques, and industry applications: A review

LO Afolabi, ZM Ariff, SFS Hashim, T Alomayri… - Journal of Materials …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the study of lightweight syntactic
foams (SFs) because of their tailorable properties, quality characteristics and suitable …

Recent developments on epoxy-based syntactic foams for deep sea exploration

X Wu, Y Gao, Y Wang, R Fan, Z Ali, J Yu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021‏ - Springer
Epoxy syntactic foam (ESF) materials are widely used in marine detection systems, deep
sea diving equipment, offshore oil exploration and other deep sea development and …

Conductive herringbone structure carbon nanotube/thermoplastic polyurethane porous foam tuned by epoxy for high performance flexible piezoresistive sensor

X Wei, X Cao, Y Wang, G Zheng, K Dai, C Liu… - … Science and Technology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we used epoxy (EP) as a third component to tune the electromechanical
performances of the conductive porous foam. A directional ice-template freezing method …

[HTML][HTML] Physical property and failure mechanism of self-piercing riveting joints between foam metal sandwich composite aluminum plate and aluminum alloy

ZC Huang, YK Zhang, YC Lin, YQ Jiang - Journal of materials research and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Self-piercing riveting is a promising method to join thin-wall structures in the automobile
industry, especially for the connection of different materials. Due to their excellent strength-to …

3D printing of syntactic foam cored sandwich composite

D Bonthu, HS Bharath, S Gururaja, P Prabhakar… - Composites Part C …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In additive manufacturing, fused filament fabrication (FFF) based three-dimensional printing
(3DP) is one of the most popular rapid processing technologies. The key benefit of 3DP is …

Flexural response of 3D printed sandwich composite

HS Bharath, D Bonthu, S Gururaja, P Prabhakar… - Composite …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Among many lightweight materials used in marine applications, sandwich structures with
syntactic foam core are promising because of lower water uptake in foam core amid face …

The temperature and anisotropy effect on compressive behavior of cylindrical closed-cell aluminum-alloy foams

E Linul, N Movahedi, L Marsavina - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, the main mechanical properties of the closed-cell aluminum-alloy foams under
different quasi-static loading conditions and different temperatures (25, 150, 300 and 450° …

[HTML][HTML] Compressive properties of metal matrix syntactic foams in uni-and triaxial compression

A Szlancsik, IN Orbulov - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Metal matrix syntactic foams (MMSFs) with Al alloy matrix (Al99. 5 and AlSi12) and pure Fe
metallic hollow spheres (MHSs, 64 vol%) were produced by pressure infiltration process …

Collapse mechanisms of metal foam matrix composites under static and dynamic loading conditions

E Linul, L Marsavina, J Kováčik - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The collapse mechanisms of metal foam matrix composites under static and dynamic
loading conditions were experimentally and analytically investigated. Closed-cell aluminium …

[HTML][HTML] On the synergistic effect of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets to enhance the functional properties of SLS 3D-printed elastomeric …

G Rollo, A Ronca, P Cerruti, XP Gan, G Fei, H **a… - Polymers, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Elastomer-based porous structures realized by selective laser sintering (SLS) are emerging
as a new class of attractive multifunctional materials. Herein, a thermoplastic polyurethane …