Thursday, July 5, 2012

Science Nation - Metal Foam



Well that's a simple goal: something lighter than aluminum and stronger than steel.

Turns out that such a material is possible as shown here by Afsaneh Rabiei who has made a composite metal foam - an aluminum matrix with hollow steel spheres. In this video we see the production of and testing of such a material. We then get some possible uses of the metal foam.

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