Syntactic Aluminum Foams from Selected Fly Ash
Particles
Funded by the Ohio Coal Development Office and Republic of
Poland
This joint Ohio/Poland project is to establish advanced
light-weight materials that can be achieved by asking
selective reinforcements to the matrix metals. Fly ash has
been found to offer significant improvements to certain
properties of metal such as aluminum. A portion of the
project is being undertaken by Okilewnictwa Research
Institute of Krakow funded by the Polish Government. Another
portion of the project is being undertaken directly by EIO
to use hollow cenospheres found in fly ash to create
syntactic aluminum foams. These projects are aimed at
assisting auto manufacturing in schieving Cafe' Standards by
providing low cost light weight materials for SUV's and
light trucks.
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