Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918030
- Title
- Introduction
- Author/Creator
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Öchsner, Andreas;
Augustin, Christian
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, School of Engineering
- Description
- Nature frequently uses cellular and porous materials for creating load-carrying and weight-optimized structures. Thanks to their cellular design, natural materials such as wood, cork, bones, and honeycombs fulfill structural as well as functional demands. For a long time, the development of artificial cellular materials has been aimed at utilizing the outstanding properties of biological materials in technical applications. As an example, the geometry of honeycombs was identically converted into aluminum structures which have been used since the 1960s as cores of lightweight sandwich elements in the aviation and space industries. Nowadays, in particular, foams made of polymeric materials are widely used in all fields of technology. For example, Styrofoam and hard polyurethane foams are widely used as packaging materials. Other typical application areas are the fields of heat and sound absorption. During the last few years, techniques for foaming metals and metal alloys and for manufacturing novel metallic cellular structures have been developed.
- Relation
- Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures: Manufacturing, Properties and Application p. 1-3
- Relation
- Engineering Materials
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00491-9_1
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer
- Keyword(s)
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cellular materials;
porous materials;
polyurethane foams;
heat absorption
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918030
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783642004902
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