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12. Conclusion
The industrial development of metal foams, which is very real and advanced in fields such as the manufacture of accumulator batteries and medical prostheses, has not yet reached maturity.
This is not due to the manufacturing processes for metal foams, which are now fairly well mastered and guarantee repeatable products. Rather, it's due to a lack of knowledge about this new product, and to technical and economic competition between the metal foams emerging in the industrial world, and the existing solutions, which are often more conventional, but robust and validated.
Expanding the industrial development of metal foams will therefore first require designers to integrate this new material, in the same way as honeycomb structures, metal fabrics and so on. It is then likely that production costs for metal foams will fall significantly as soon...
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Glossary
Bibliography
Websites
Referring site :
Metal foam dealers :
http://www.goodfellow.com/catalogue/GFCatalogue.php?Language=F
Events
Metfoam is held every two years (odd-numbered years), with the venue changing with each show.
Cellmat takes place every two years (even years) in Germany.
Patents
[B1] Energy absorption device for motor vehicle bumper beam, EP 1902907 B1.
[B2] Motor vehicle front end with large support plates for shock absorbers, and associated vehicle, EP 2 241 480 B1.
[B3] Frame structure of vehicle body, US 5611568 A.
[B4] Headlamp comprising energy absorption means, US 7156545 B2.
[B5] Use of metal foams...
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Manufacturers – Suppliers – Distributors (non-exhaustive list, as the reference site contains a regularly updated list)
Alantum, German and Korean producer of open-structure nickel-iron foams
http://www.alantum.com/en/special/manufacturing.html
Alulight, Austrian manufacturer of powder-metallurgy...
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