One of the most important targets in vehicle design is passive safety; this more and more stringent requirement leads the designer towards new vehicle architectural solutions and innovative materials. Aluminium foams are a new class of materials with promise an improvement of vehicle crashworthiness, combining the properties derived from the cellular structure, in particular the lightness, with the typical behavior of metals.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.