Studies on Mechanical Properties of Thin-Walled MHS Structure

Abstract

Metallic hollow sphere structure cellular material is a type of super-light cellular metallic material. Its basic cell is thin-walled metallic hollow sphere. A series of quasi-static uniaxial compression experiments of two spheres array, three spheres array and tetrahedral packing structure were conducted. It is found that one sphere produces deformation at the contact place of two spheres, and the deformation is larger than that at the contact place of plates. The three spheres array and tetrahedral packing structure have the same phenomenon. Then, the Young’s moduli of these three models had been studied, and it is found that the tetrahedral packing structure has a larger value than the others. The compressive deformation behaviors of two and three spheres with the spheres glued together were studied too. These research findings can be the basis of the design of MHS structure cellular material.