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Anomalies in mid-high-temperature linear thermal expansion coefficient of the closed-cell aluminum foam

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Low-density closed-cell aluminum foam is promising to be used as load-bearing and thermal insulation components. It is necessary to systematically study its thermal expansion performance. In this work, linear thermal expansion coefficient (LTEC) of the closed-cell aluminum foam of different density was measured in the temperature range of 100–500 °C. X-ray fluorescence was used to analyze elemental composition of the cell wall material. Phase transition characteristics were analyzed with X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. LTEC of the closed-cell aluminum foam was found to be dominated by its cell wall property and independent of its density. Particularly, two anomalies were found and experimentally analyzed. Due to the release of the residual tensile stress, the LTEC declined and even exhibited negative values. After several thermal cycles, the residual stress vanished. With temperature higher than 300 °C, instantaneous LTEC showed hysteresis, which should result from the redistribution of some residual hydrogen in the Ti2Al20Ca lattice.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90916026). The authors would like to thank Guien Zhou, Guanyin Gao, Yanwei Ding and Shiding Zhang for their supports in the XRD, DSC and XRF analyses.

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    Hong Ye & Mingyang Ma

  2. Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China

    Jilin Yu

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Ye, H., Ma, M. & Yu, J. Anomalies in mid-high-temperature linear thermal expansion coefficient of the closed-cell aluminum foam. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 3669–3675 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0508-y

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