Aluminum foams have been of interest to automotive designers for some time due to their extreme light weight (0.3 to 0.5 g/cm3) and their potential to absorb energy during impact.The current paper describes the use of stabilized aluminum foams produced by the melt method from Metal Matrix Composites (MMC) in automotive front-end crash box applications. Performance of an existing design crash box using hollow aluminum extrusions will be compared to the same extrusions filled with MMC foams of varying densities. Methods of manufacture and control of the physical and the related mechanical properties of the foam will be describedThe existing and composite crash boxes were tested using standard methods. Test data including energy absorption per unit mass and per unit length will be discussed. The mechanism of energy absorption will also be discussed. Results indicate significant improvements in both these areas allowing a meaningful reduction in crash box length for a given energy absorption.


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    Title :

    Use of Aluminum Foam to Increase Crash Box Efficiency


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2005 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2005



    Publication date :

    2005-04-11




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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