Advances in the Composite Structure of Aluminum FoamFilled Metal Thin-walled Tube
YANG Xudong1, XU Jiali2, ZOU Tianchun3, ZHAO Naiqin2, ZONG Rongrong4
1 Sino-European Institute of Aviation Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350 3 College of Airworthiness, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300 4 Tianjin Jinliyan Automobile Engineering & Technology Co., Ltd., Tianjin 300392
Abstract: Aluminum foam has been widely used due to its excellent mechanical, electrical and thermodynamic properties. In order to expand the application, researchers have put a lot of effort into the preparation of high-performance composite aluminum foam. Lots of studies have shown that the method of preparing composite foam by adding different kinds of reinforcements can improve the strength of the composite foam, but it will cause various problems. For example, hard ceramic particles (SiC particles, Al2O3 particles and so on) can improve the compressive strength, but it will cause the problem of brittleness; the two-dimensional reinforcement (such as fiber and whisker) can reduce the brittleness, but there are still many difficulties in uniform distribution and the treatment of reinforcement. Besides that the method is cumbersome and the interface reaction is difficult to control. Therefore, whether aluminum foams or composite foams are rarely used alone. In most cases, aluminum foam is combined with other high-strength components, such as aluminum foam sandwich panels and aluminum foam filled thin-walled metal tubes. The aluminum foam filled thin-walled metal tube composite structure is a special structure that aluminum foam core fills into a thin-walled metal tube through various ways and achieve an effective connection. At present, the met-hod of achieving filling can be divided into external filling method and in-situ preparation method. The aluminum foam filled thin-walled tube structure not only has excellent energy absorption and damping properties, but also has certain toughness and high independent load-carrying capacity. As a new type of composite structure, aluminum foam filled thin-walled metal tube has great potential in shock absorption, noise absorption and reduction. In particular, the aluminum foam filled thin-walled metal tube composite structure has great potential practical value and broad application prospects in the automobile manufacturing industry, which has attracted the attention of researchers. Compared with the traditional shock absorbing structure, the aluminum foam filled thin-walled metal tube has three obvious advantages in the automobile manufacturing industry: (i) greatly reducing the weight of the vehicle body, reducing the fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of the automobile without reducing the strength of the vehicle body; (ii) the structure relies on its own plastic deformation can absorb most of the collision energy and disperse the impact on the body of the vehicle to avoid causing excessive local deformation, so that it can fully guarantee the safety of passengers; (iii) the rebound deformation of the structure is low, which can effectively avoid the secondary injury of the human in the accident. At present, the most common composite structure application is used as bumpers, sub-frames, front longitudinal beams and other energy-absorbing components of automobiles, which reduces the production cost and improves the safety factor of automobiles. This paper introduces the main preparation methods and performance characteristics of the aluminum foam filled metal thin-walled tube compo-site structure, describes the research status of the composite structure at home and abroad and forecasts its future research direction.
作者简介: 杨旭东,中国民航大学副教授、硕士研究生导师。2012年6月博士毕业于天津大学材料学院,2015—2016年法国航空航天大学(ISAE)访问学者。天津市“131”创新型人才培养工程第三层次人选。主要从事泡沫铝及复合材料的研究工作。近年来,以第一或通讯作者在Composites Part A, Materials Science and Engineering A等SCI期刊发表学术论文十余篇。 许佳丽,2013年6月毕业于天津大学,获得学士学位。现为天津大学先进金属材料研究所硕士研究生,在赵乃勤教授的指导下进行研究。目前主要研究领域为泡沫铝及复合材料。 赵乃勤,天津大学材料科学与工程学院金属材料系教授、博士研究生导师。国家高层次人才特殊支持计划(万人计划,教学名师),全国三八红旗手,国务院特殊津贴专家。2000年,国家公派访问学者,在美国伊利诺斯理工学院从事铝基复合材料的制备与性能研究。2014年,国家公派高级研究学者,在美国范德堡大学从事纳米材料电学与热学性能研究。主要从事碳纳米复合材料合成及其在锂离子电池、超级电容器中的应用研究以及金属基复合材料的制备、表征和性能研究。最近5年以第一或通讯作者身份在ACS Nano、Carbon、Materials Letters、Materials Science and Engineering A等SCI学术期刊发表研究论文20余篇。出版了《合金固态相变》《原位合成碳纳米相增强金属基复合材料》等学术专著。曾获国家教学成果二等奖和天津市自然科学奖等奖励。
引用本文:
杨旭东, 许佳丽, 邹田春, 赵乃勤, 纵荣荣. 泡沫铝填充金属薄壁管复合结构的研究进展[J]. 材料导报, 2019, 33(21): 3637-3643.
YANG Xudong, XU Jiali, ZOU Tianchun, ZHAO Naiqin, ZONG Rongrong. Advances in the Composite Structure of Aluminum FoamFilled Metal Thin-walled Tube. Materials Reports, 2019, 33(21): 3637-3643.
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