RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Applicability of solid solution heat treatments to aluminum foams A1 Lázaro Nebreda, Jaime A1 Solórzano Quijano, Eusebio A1 Escudero, Javier A1 Saja Sáez, José Antonio de A1 Rodríguez Pérez, Miguel Ángel K1 Aluminium foams K1 Espumas de aluminio K1 Heat treatment K1 Tratamiento térmico K1 Tomography K1 Tomografía AB Present research work evaluates the influence of both density and size on the treatability of Aluminum-based (6000 series) foam-parts subjected to a typical solid solution heat treatment (water quenching). The results are compared with those obtained for the bulk alloy, evaluating the fulfilment of cooling requirements. Density of the foams was modeled by tomography analysis and the thermal properties calculated, based on validated density-scaled models. With this basis, cooling velocity maps during water quenching were predicted by finite element modeling (FEM) in which boundary conditions were obtained by solving the inverse heat conduction problem. Simulations under such conditions have been validated experimentally. Obtained results address incomplete matrix hardening for foam-parts bigger than 70 mm in diameter with a density below 650 kg/m3. An excellent agreement has been found in between the predicted cooling maps and final measured microhardness profiles. PB MDPI SN 2075-4701 YR 2012 FD 2012 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40986 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40986 LA eng NO Metals, 2012, vol. 2, n. 4. p. 508-528 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 20-abr-2024