The Influence of Internal Pore Pressures During Roll Forming of Structurally Porous Metals

摘要

Structurally porous metal sandwich panels consisting of dense face sheets and porous cores of controlled relative density can be manufactured by trapping inert gas during hot isostatic pressing and modifying its distribution via subsequent thermo-mechanical forming. At high pressures, the internal gas is expected to influence the forming response. This paper describes a model for the roll forming of a porous metal panel and its use to explore the effects of internal pore pressure upon rolling response. It is shown that for gas pressures below about half the yield strength of the fully dense matrix material, there is essentially no influence on the forming response. Only in the case of very high initial pore pressures or at relative densities approaching full theoretical does a noticeable effect arise. In this case, a limiting upper density is attainable which depends on the specific rolling conditions and geometry.