Aluminium foam produced by PM: Y.Tada, M.Sakamaki. (Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.) J. Jpn Soc. Powder Powder Metall., vol 44, no 4, 1997, 323–328. (In Japanese.)

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The high strain rate compressive behaviour of two cellular aluminium alloys (Alulight and Duocel) has been investigated using the split Hopkinson pressure bar and direct impact tests. It is found that the dynamic behaviour of these foams is very similar to their quasi-static behaviour. The plateau stress is almost insensitive to strain rate, for strain rates ε̇ up to 5000s−1. Deformation is localised in weak bands in the Alulight foam but is spatially uniform for the Duocel foam, over the full range of strain rates 10−3s−1⩽ε̇⩽5000s−1.