Francisco García-Moreno

TL;DR: This work gives an overview of the production, properties and industrial applications of metal foams, with special interest in the mechanical and functional aspects, but also taking into account costs and feasibility considerations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined three-dimensional metallic lattices with regular octet and rhombicuboctahedron units fabricated with geometric imperfections via Selective Laser Sintering and found that each lattice exhibits a distinct failure mechanism that is governed not only by cell topology but also by geometric defects induced by additive manufacturing.

TL;DR: In this article, a balanced solution for the stress shielding and the poor osseointegration in titanium implants is proposed, with a porosity of 100-200μm of pore size employing space-holder technique (50-vol% NH4HCO3, 800-MPa at 1250°C during 2h under high vacuum conditions), obtaining a good equilibrium between stiffness and mechanical resistance.

TL;DR: X-ray and neutron radiography and tomography can be used to obtain images of material and component inhomogeneities and their development with time as mentioned in this paper, due to their non-destructiveness and non-invasive nature both methods give insight into the function of devices and their decay processes.

TL;DR: It is shown that bubble coalescence is not only caused by gravity-induced drainage, as experiments under weightlessness show, and by stresses caused by foam growth, but also by local pressure peaks caused by the blowing agent.