| Summary: | Background: Structures with metal foam cores are novel materials that have significant potential application in the automotive, marine, aircraft and building industries. They have the capability of absorbing considerable amount of impact energy by large plastic deformation under quasi-static or dynamic loading, making them ideal structure protectors and energy absorbers. Objective: To study the compressive properties of GFRP rod with aluminium foam core. Results: GFRP rod with aluminium foam core exhibited highest compressive strength and highest energy absorption compared to other systems of neat aluminium foam rod, neat GFRP rod and solid aluminium rod. Conclusion: The combination properties of aluminium foam and GFRP improved the performance of aluminium foam in terms of energy absorption capacity. © 2014 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.
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