CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR PREPARING UNIDIRECTIONALLY REINFORCED METAL FOAM

摘要

Steel wires are pulled through a reactor tube in which they continuously interact with a foaming metal mass. The steel wires are coated with a metal which forms a binary alloy with the matrix metal, thereby protecting the steel from being dissolved. The foaming matrix metal is usually an aluminum alloy but can be any light or low melting metal including zinc or lead. The steel wires protect the metal foam from cracking in the pultrusion process.