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Metal Foams: A Design Guide

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Case studies 219<br />

Figure 17.2 A pressed panel after expansion, showing the three-layer<br />

structure. (Courtesy of Karmann GmbH)<br />

17.2 Integrally molded foam parts<br />

Illichmann GmbH give examples of the ways in which MEPURA<br />

ALULIGHT ® can be molded to give complex shapes which have dense<br />

skins with foamed cores – ‘syntactic’ metal structures Ł (see Chapter 2,<br />

Section 2.4). Figure 17.3 shows examples of skinned structures which are<br />

both stiff and light. The thickness of the outer skin can be enlarged by<br />

a special casting technique, creating three-dimensional sandwiches with<br />

isotropic core properties. The small amount of metal (

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