Custom Design to the Application of Open-Cellular Metal Structures

Custom Design to the Application of Open-Cellular Metal Structures

Claudia Drebenstedt, Christian Hannemann, Jörg Hohlfeld, Steve Siebeck, Thomas Hipke, Dilay Kibaroglu

Abstract. There are many potential applications for lightweight open-cellular metal structures, such as energy absorption, filtering, or thermal management. Such metallic open-cellular structures are often produced by additive manufacturing. Another option is the use of investment casting, for example by using open polymer foams as a template. By designing structures via Computer-Aided-Design (CAD), these can be used directly for additive manufacturing, either directly in metal or in wax as a template for casting. In this way the structure can be adapted very well to the needs, possible applications are shown in [1]. Using polymeric templates reduces the adaptability of the structure immensely. To use the full potential, it is necessary to develop the structure according to its future purpose. The ‘ProZell’ project is developing the basis for realizing such structures in high-manganese steels by investment casting using the lost wax process.

Keywords
Cellular Metals, Open Cellular Structures, Design, Investment Casting

Published online 2/25/2024, 7 pages
Copyright © 2024 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Claudia Drebenstedt, Christian Hannemann, Jörg Hohlfeld, Steve Siebeck, Thomas Hipke, Dilay Kibaroglu, Custom Design to the Application of Open-Cellular Metal Structures, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 39, pp 25-31, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903094-4

The article was published as article 4 of the book Porous Metals and Metallic Foams

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