The Deformation of Expanded Clay Syntactic Foams During Compression Characterized by Acoustic Emission

0524672 - ÚJF 2021 RIV DE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Kadar, C. - Máthis, K. - Chmelík, F. - Knapek, Michal - Orbulov, I. N.
The Deformation of Expanded Clay Syntactic Foams During Compression Characterized by Acoustic Emission.
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Cham: Springer, 2020, s. 107-114. ISBN 978-3-030-42797-9. ISSN 2367-1181.
[11th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams (MetFoam 2019). Dearborn (US), 20.08.2019-23.08.2019]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001794
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : acoustic emission * deformation * metal matrix syntactic foams
OECD category: Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)

The deformation and failure mechanisms in syntactic foams with different metal matrices were investigated in this study. The syntactic foams were produced by the infiltration method using lightweight expanded clay particles (LECA) as a space holder and commercially pure Al or eutectic Al-12%Si alloy for the matrices. The samples were compressed at room temperature. Simultaneously, the acoustic emission (AE) response and the surface deformation were monitored and collated with the deformation curves. In the case of the Al foam, ductile behavior with long plateau stress was observed. During this plateau regime, multiple active shear bands were detected. In contrast, the AlSi12 foam exhibited more brittle deformation behavior. At the end of the quasi-linear stage, the localization of the strain started within one large shear band, accompanied by a significant stress drop. The AE analysis revealed that the deformation was mostly governed by the fracture of LECA particles and the plastic deformation of the matrix material for both types of foams. After strain localization, in the case of the AlSi12 foam, the fracture of the matrix became significant, causing the deterioration of the sample. In Al foam, due to multiple active shear bands, the stress–strain curve is reproducible even for samples with four times of the size of the LECA particle.
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