Fabrication of Aluminum Foam-Filled Thin-Wall Steel Tube by Friction Welding and Its Compression Properties

Aluminum foam has received considerable attention in various fields and is expected to be used as an engineering material owing to its high energy absorption properties and light weight. To improve the mechanical properties of aluminum foam, combining it with dense tubes, such as aluminum foam-fille...

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Main Authors: Yoshihiko Hangai, Masaki Saito, Takao Utsunomiya, Soichiro Kitahara, Osamu Kuwazuru, Nobuhiro Yoshikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-09-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/7/9/6796