Sentences with phrase «syntactic foam»

Cameron's engineers actually developed new materials — including a syntactic foam made from millions of hollow glass microspheres suspended in an epoxy resin — to strengthen the sub's hull without adding a lot of weight.

«Syntactic foam sandwich fills hunger for lightweight yet strong materials: New way to expand the applications of metal matrix syntactic foams to autos, ships, trains, and more.»

A team of researchers reports success in pioneering tests of a layered material with a lightweight metal matrix syntactic foam core that holds significant potential for automobiles, trains, ships, and other applications requiring lightweight structural components that retain their strength even when bent or compressed.

These qualities make the metal matrix syntactic foam sandwich attractive for automotive floor board panels and other applications in which bending properties are important.

But Gupta and his colleagues are the first to develop a metal matrix syntactic foam core sandwich composite.

The hollow particles also offer impact protection to the syntactic foam because each shell acts like an energy absorber during its fracture.

Amphibious vehicles such as the Ultra Heavy - lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) being developed by the U.S. Marine Corps can especially benefit from the light weight and high buoyancy offered by the new syntactic foams, the researchers explained.

By contrast, metal matrix syntactic foams incorporate porosity in their foam - like structure by means of hollow particles.