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Cellular Magnesium Matrix Foam Composites for Mechanical Damping Applications

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The damping characteristics of metal alloys and metal matrix composites are relevant to the automotive, aerospace, and marine structures. Use of lightweight materials can help in increasing payload capacity and in decreasing fuel consumption. Lightweight composite materials possessing high damping capabilities that can be designed as structural members can greatly benefit in addressing these needs. In this context, the damping properties of lightweight metals such as aluminum and magnesium and their respective composites have been studied in the existing literature. This review focuses on analyzing the damping properties of aluminum and magnesium alloys and their cellular composites. The damping properties of various lightweight alloys and composites are compared on the basis of their density to understand the potential for weight saving in structural applications. Magnesium alloys are observed to possess better damping properties in comparison to aluminum. However, aluminum matrix syntactic foams reinforced with silicon carbide hollow particles possess a damping capacity and density comparable to magnesium alloy. By using the data presented in the study, composites with specific compositions and properties can be selected for a given application. In addition, the comparison of the results helps in identifying the areas where attention needs to be focused to address the future needs.

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One author (N.G.) acknowledges the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Cooperative Agreement W911NF-11-2-0096 with NYU.

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    Vasanth Chakravarthy Shunmugasamy & Bilal Mansoor

  2. Composites Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA

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Shunmugasamy, V.C., Mansoor, B. & Gupta, N. Cellular Magnesium Matrix Foam Composites for Mechanical Damping Applications. JOM 68, 279–287 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-015-1680-5

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