- Title
- Effect of heat treatment on the compressive behavior of zinc alloy ZA27 syntactic foam
- Creator
- Movahedi, Nima; Murch, Graeme E.; Belova, Irina V.; Fiedler, Thomas
- Relation
- Materials Vol. 12, Issue 5, no. 792
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12050792
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Zinc alloy (ZA27) syntactic foams (SF) were manufactured using expanded perlite (EP) particles and counter-gravity infiltration casting. Due to a variation of the metallic matrix content, the density of the produced foam samples varied from 1.78 to 2.03 g·cm−3. As-cast and solution heat-treated samples were tested to investigate the compressive properties of the ZA27 syntactic foam. To this end, quasi-static compression tests were conducted. In addition, microstructural analysis of the as-cast and heat-treated syntactic foams was carried out using scanning electron microscopy. The results indicate that the heat treatment alters the microstructure of the ZA27 alloy matrix from a multiphase dendrite to a spheroidized microstructure with improved ductility. Moreover, the heat treatment considerably enhances the energy absorption and plateau stress (σpl) of the syntactic foam. Optical analysis of the syntactic foams under compression shows that the dominant deformation mechanism of the as-cast foams is brittle fracture. In comparison, the heat-treated samples undergo a more ductile deformation.
- Subject
- metallic syntactic foam; zinc alloy; expanded perlite; heat treatment; brittle and ductile deformation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1423228
- Identifier
- uon:37904
- Identifier
- ISSN:1996-1944
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
- Language
- eng
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