Investigation of the Energy Absorption of the Aluminium Foam

To assure safe traffic is a goal of the vehicle manufacturers. The car body elements are usually made from high plasticity metals whiches can deform in the case of an accident. By this deformation way, the car body absorbs the collision energy. Aluminium foam is a special material that can absorb impact energy. The authors wanted to find a rapid and simple test method to investigate the dynamic load effect for the aluminium foam. The Charpy impact test is a suitable and standardized impact test to determine the absorbed energy of the material during the fracture. In this research, the aluminium foam was tested by the Charpy impact test and compared the results with literature data to evaluate the used impact test.