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Influence of Rolling on Foamable Precursor Sandwich and Aluminum Foam Sandwich

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A novel method of compound casting with hot-rolling to prepare foamable precursor sandwich (FPS) is proposed in this paper, and aluminum foam sandwich (AFS) was obtained by subsequent foaming. The cores and interfaces of FPSs and AFSs made with different rolling passes were investigated. The results indicate that increase of the rolling pass can improve the foaming capacity of FPS, cell uniformity and interface bonding quality of AFS. The differences in load resistance and energy absorption of AFSs made with different rolling passes were compared under three-point bending tests. It is found that the deformation uniformity of core cells increases but the overall load resistance and energy absorption of AFS decrease with the rolling pass. The evaluation of facesheet/core interface effect on the load resistance and energy absorption of AFS showed increasing the facesheet thickness and rolling pass is a good way to enhance the load resistance and energy absorption for AFS.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51874093) and the Liaoning province key r&d project (No. 2019JH2/10100008). The authors would like to acknowledge these organizations for financial support.

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Yang, S., Luo, H., Lu, X. et al. Influence of Rolling on Foamable Precursor Sandwich and Aluminum Foam Sandwich. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 32, 2488–2500 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-07290-6

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