Elasto-Plastic Behavior of Aluminum Foams Subjected to Compression Loading

• DOI: 10.1007/s10778-017-0818-2
• Publication Date: 2017-09-11T14:00:00Z
• Authors: H. M. Silva; C. D. Carvalho; N. R. Peixinho
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

The non-linear behavior of uniform-size cellular foams made of aluminum is investigated when subjected to compressive loads while comparing numerical results obtained in the Finite Element Method software (FEM) ANSYS workbench and ANSYS Mechanical APDL (ANSYS Parametric Design Language). The numerical model is built on AUTODESK INVENTOR, being imported into ANSYS and solved by the Newton–Raphson iterative method. The most similar conditions were used in ANSYS mechanical and ANSYS workbench, as possible. The obtained numerical results and the differences between the two programs are presented and discussed