Low-cycle fatigue analysis of closed-cell aluminium foam using a homogenised material model

Fatigue life analysis of porous materials such as metal foams is very difficult to process because a comprehensive computational analysis using numerical models with a huge number of finite elements is required for that purpose. Instead of modelling the exact internal structure of treated porous materials, an appropriate homogenised material model of AlSi7 closed-cell aluminium foam is used in this study. The numerical analysis is based on the...