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Metal Foams: A Design Guide

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<strong>Design</strong> for creep with metal foams 105<br />

of the time to rupture and the secondary strain rate is a constant. The time to<br />

rupture, tr, would then be inversely proportional to the secondary strain rate.<br />

In practice, it is found that<br />

tr Pε m ³ C<br />

where C is a constant and m is an exponent with a value slightly less than<br />

one. Rearranging this expression gives the Monkman–Grant relationship:<br />

log⊲tr⊳ C m log⊲ Pε⊳ D log⊲C⊳ ⊲9.2⊳<br />

Monkman and Grant found that 0.77

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