Evaluation of mild steel hollow and foam filled circular tubes under axial loading

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Nashik 422213, MH-India

²Mechatronic Lab, Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Nashik 422213, MH-India

³Department of Mining Machinery Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad 826004, JH-India

Adv. Mater. Lett., 2018, 9 (9), pp 660-664

DOI: 10.5185/amlett.2018.2041

Publication Date (Web): Jun 14, 2018

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Abstract

AAF (Aluminium alloy foam) has turned out to be a beneficiary content in the automotive sector across the globe. It has been in applications due its light weight tendency and providing high strength and energy absorbing capacity. The content of paper marks a plot on the energy absorption capability of the AAF filled circular tubes. AlSi₁₀Mg has been produced by the melt route method. Aluminium foam filled circular tubes, mild steel (MS) thin walled hollow tubes were tested under compression loading to note the energy absorption and deformation behavior. The compression was carried out with a strain rate of 0.1/s. FESEM tests was conducted to obtain the data at micro and macro levels. The test results portray that the foam filled circular tubes shows more energy absorption than the hollow (ERW) tubes at 0.1/s strain rate.

Keywords

Aluminium alloy foam, compression and strain rate, FESEM, macro and micro structures.