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Metal Foams: A Design Guide

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Chapter 9<br />

<strong>Design</strong> for creep with metal foams<br />

Creep of metals, and of foams made from them, becomes important at temperatures<br />

above about one third of the melting point. The secondary, steady-state<br />

strain rate Pε depends on the applied stress, , raised to a power n, typically<br />

3

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