Using lightweight materials reduces fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Magnesium, a
lightweight structural material with interesting properties, performs well during processing …

With the growing trend toward using multi-materials to realize lightweight structures, friction
stir welding (FSW) has attracted attention as a dissimilar metal joining technology. In …

Al foam was press-formed utilizing a steel mesh die during the foaming of the precursor to
shape the Al foam. The effects of the temperature of the precursor and the pressing velocity …

Being a green manufacturing technique, FSP could be viewed as the most important
advancement in the field of metal joining and composite fabrication. In the current scenario …

In order to obtain high-quality aluminum foam components, a new preparation method for a
7075 closed-cell aluminum foam based on friction stir processing (FSP) was proposed. The …

Precursor foaming is one of the processes used to produce aluminum (Al) foam. This
process fabricates a foamable precursor by mixing a blowing agent powder with solid Al …

The aluminum foam is used in various industrial applications because of its superior
strength to weight ratio. The FSP is used here for development of a precursor by processing …

ADC12 die-casting precursors containing many gas pores were fabricated by the friction stir
welding (FSW) route and were foamed by the FSW foaming process only using the friction …

Metal foams are used for industrial purposes because of their lightweight structure, high
specific modulus of elasticity, and excellent energy-absorbing capacity. Various techniques …

In this study, the mechanical properties of aluminum foam were classified by machine
learning from their X-ray computed tomography (CT) images. It was found that aluminum …