Advanced and High Performance Metallic Foams

Dear Colleagues,

Metallic foams are ever and ever developing. Nowadays, advanced or high-performance metallic foams (such as low-cost, high-strength, high-stiffness, excellent energy absorbers, etc.) are emerging. Researchers in the metallic foams community are pushing the boundaries further and further to produce stronger, lighter, higher-performance foams.

It is my pleasure to invite you to publish your metallic foam-related research works in the Special Issue, ‘Advanced and High-Performance Metallic Foams’, of Materials as a full paper, short communication, or review. This Special Issue covers all types and aspects of metallic foams from design through production and intensive testing, including, but not limited to liquid- and solid-state and 3D additive production methods, blowing agents, foaming, macro-, meso-, and microstructures of foams, structural reverse engineering, modelling of metallic foams, quasi-static, dynamic and cyclic mechanical properties (compressive, tensile, and bending behavior, including blast protection and piercing) at room, elevated, or cryogenic temperature, mechanical damping, failure mechanisms and energy absorption of metallic foams, foam-filled structures and their mechanical stability, biocompatible foams, degradable and recyclable metallic foams, joining technologies (brazing, welding, gluing, etc.), forming of metallic foams, notch and hole sensitivity, applications and case studies.

Dr. Imre Norbert Orbulov
Guest Editor

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