- Title
- Mechanical and microstructural characterization of an AZ91-activated carbon syntactic foam
- Creator
- Movahedi, Nima; Taherishargh, Mehdi; Belova, Irina V.; Murch, Graeme E.; Fiedler, Thomas
- Relation
- Materials Vol. 12, Issue 1, no. 3
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12010003
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- In this study, activated carbon (AC) particles were combined with AZ91 alloy to manufacture a magnesium syntactic foam. This novel lightweight foam has a very low density, in the range of 1.12-1.18 gcm-3. The results show that no chemical reaction occurred between the AZ91 matrix and the activated carbon particles. The mechanical properties of the foam were evaluated under quasi-static compression loading conditions, and showed a consistent trend for the energy absorption of the fabricated AZ91-AC syntactic foams. The deformation mechanism of samples was a brittle fracture mode with the formation of shear bands during the fracture of all samples.
- Subject
- foam; magnesium; deformation; casting; compression; properties; syntactic; density
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1403919
- Identifier
- uon:35236
- Identifier
- ISSN:1996-1944
- Rights
- © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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