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Preparation of ceramic foams suitable for aircraft arresting by the airport runway based on a protein foaming agent

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Crushable ceramic foams are more suitable to be used as an arrestor material applied in engineered materials arresting system (EMAS) for airport runway for their properties of widely controllable strength, negligible crushing-rebounding behavior, durability, and chemically-inert composition, comparing with traditional concrete foams. The synthesis of ceramic foams adopted direct-foaming method and used an animal protein as foaming agent. Kaolin, talc powder and alumina were the main raw materials. Effects of the ratios of raw materials, calcination temperatures, heating rates, holding time, viscosities of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solution as well as the amounts of protein foaming agent and water on microscopic structure, densities, compressive strength and open porosities of ceramic foams were investigated systematically. The results indicate that ceramic foams with typical pore sizes 100–300 μm, open porosities from 73.1% to 91.5%, densities from 0.25 to 0.62 g·cm−3, compressive strength from 0.19 to 4.89 MPa, are obtained by properly adjusting the parameters mentioned above. And the mechanical strength meets the requirement for the EMAS for airport runway. In addition, good correlations are observed among compressive strength, open porosity, microscopic structure, and crystal phase. Furthermore, the possibility of producing the general dimensions of such aircraft arresting components with the proposed method was also discussed.

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    Liyuan Zhang  (张理元), Dali Zhou  (周大利), Weizhong Yang, Ying Chen, Bin Liang & Jiabei Zhou

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Funded partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51202151)

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Zhang, L., Zhou, D., Yang, W. et al. Preparation of ceramic foams suitable for aircraft arresting by the airport runway based on a protein foaming agent. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 29, 980–989 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-014-1031-3

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