Lightweight metallic cellular materials (MCMs) have been seen in numerous engineering
applications to date, primarily due to their excellent mechanical characteristics such as low …

This review paper discusses the challenges in improving the mechanical and structural
performance of metal-faced sandwich composite panels while reducing weight and cost. It …

Friction stir processing (FSP) is a rapidly emerging newer solid-state technique for
composite fabrication. It involves surface modification which in turn enables successful …

To improve structural performance, bendability and potential functionality of metal-based
sandwich sheets, the 3D lattice cores were sandwiched between thin metallic face sheets …

Hydrogel-born foam materials have been intensively developed because of great potential
in various fields and environmental friendliness with water as foaming agent. However, the …

In the last few decades, metal-based composites and related manufacturing methods have
attained a significant research attention thanks to the possibilities they offer to tailor both the …

Steel-steel composite metal foam (SS-CMF) and composite metal foam core sandwich
panels (SS-CMF-CSP) were manufactured and tested under quasi-static tension. The SS …

The manufacturing of shaped sandwich components is a task with technical challenge. In
this paper the mechanical feasibility to produce a doubly curved panel from an initially flat …

The additive manufacturing (AM) of fiber reinforced plastics has gained much interests in the
design of lightweight structures with superior mechanical performance. Strong anisotropy …

This paper presents a numerical investigation on the plastic forming of doubly curved
surfaces of aluminum foam sandwich panel (AFSP). A mesoscopic 3D Voronoi model that …