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Manufacturing Methods of Metal Foams

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An Insight Into Metal Based Foams

Part of the book series: Advanced Structured Materials ((STRUCTMAT,volume 145))

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This chapter succinctly presents manufacturing processes for metallic foams. Nine manufacturing process are patented but only five major processes are successfully deployed for commercial purposes. Several manufacturing companies are tirelessly working on conventional and non-conventional approach targeting primarily for more efficient, reliable, reproducible, and low investment production system. These manufacturing systems target separately open-cell and closed-cell metal foams. As historically established in the area of materials science, metal foam properties depend critically on the type of base metal and manufacturing process. The present chapter also provides the glimpse of role of processing parameters which are critical in reproducing the structure and properties of foams. Present chapter also highlights the challenges in the production of metal foams.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Nashik, Maharashtra, India

    Dr. Dipen Kumar Rajak

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Prof. Manoj Gupta

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Rajak, D.K., Gupta, M. (2020). Manufacturing Methods of Metal Foams. In: An Insight Into Metal Based Foams. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 145. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9069-6_3

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