Investigation on Properties of Aluminum Foam Reinforced by Copper-coated Glass Fiber
The aluminum foams with different porosity were prepared with base material aluminum and the foaming agent of TiH2 and blowing agent of copper-coated glass fibers.The influences of glass fibers content and length to diameter ratio with apparent density,porosity level,compression property and thermal conductivity were tested.The results indicate that with the increase of the content and length to the diameter ratio of the glass fiber,the porosity increases,the apparent density,yield strength and thermal conductivity decrease.But the influence of different length to diameter ratio of glass fiber is smaller than that of the fiber content.