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Metal Foams: A Design Guide

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Sound absorption and vibration suppression 179<br />

low frequencies, and the selection line is less steep. If k D1, the selection line<br />

becomes horizontal and the selection task becomes one of choosing materials<br />

with the highest value of ω1, exactly as for the undamped case.<br />

Figure 12.5 shows data for metal foams. <strong>Metal</strong> foam panels and sandwich<br />

panels with metfoam cores have attractive values of M0 d , because of their high<br />

flexural stiffness and their relatively high damping capacity. The Alporas range<br />

of foams offers particularly good performance. For comparison, aluminum<br />

alloys have a values of Mu in the range 1.6–1.8 and damping coefficients, ,<br />

in the range 10 4 2 ð 10 3 in the same units as those of the figure.<br />

Material index M u = E 1/3 / ρ (GPa 1/3 /Mg/m 3 )<br />

8<br />

6<br />

4<br />

2<br />

Material index Mu vs.<br />

Damping coefficient<br />

Vibes 1 CMS, MFA 14-4-98; Metfoam DB<br />

Alporas (0.21)<br />

Hydro (0.25)<br />

Hydro (0.15)<br />

Alulight (0.3)<br />

Alulight (0.32)<br />

Alporas (0.245)<br />

Alulight (0.371)<br />

Fraunhofer (0.4)<br />

Fraunhofer (0.551)<br />

Alulight (0.95)<br />

Alulight (0.645)<br />

Duocel<br />

Duocel (0.235)<br />

(0.19)<br />

Duocel (0.254)<br />

Hydro (0.419)<br />

Cymat (0.083)<br />

Hydro (0.153)<br />

Cymat (0.155)<br />

Hydro (0.42)<br />

Hydro (0.143)<br />

Hydro (0.161)<br />

Cymat (0.071)<br />

INCO (0.265)<br />

INCO (0.31)<br />

INCO (0.385)<br />

1.0E-3 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.06<br />

Material index M d - η<br />

Figure 12.5 A selection chart for vibration management. The axes are the<br />

index. Mu D E1 /3 / and the damping coefficient Md D . All the materials<br />

shown are metal foams, and all have better performance, measured by the<br />

index M0 d than the solid metals from which they are made<br />

References<br />

Asholt, P. (1997) In Banhart, J. (ed.), <strong>Metal</strong>lschäume, MIT Verlag, Bremen, Germany.<br />

Beranek, L.L. (ed.) (1960) Noise Reduction, McGraw-Hill, New York.<br />

Cebon, D. and Ashby, M.F. (1994) Material selection for precision instruments. Measurement<br />

Science and Technology 5, 296–306.<br />

Cowan, H.J. and Smith, P.R. (1988) The Science and Technology of Building Materials, Van<br />

Nostrand Reinhold, New York.

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