Steel foam material processing, properties, and potential structural applications
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Steel foam is a material that can now be produced at the laboratory scale using a variety of different processes that create materials with a variety of different morphologies. Steel foam has not, however, been adopted in structural applications. In this paper we review some of the methods available for processing steel foams and the material properties that result from those processes, and demonstrate a possible application of steel foam in mitigating instability in structural members susceptible to local instability.
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