ALUPOR™ VS Porous metals

Porous aluminium produced by replication casting differs from other metal foams. ALUPOR™ can serve as effective analogue of another aluminum foams, sintered bronze and steel, porous ceramic, etc. This is open cell permeable material with porosity 50-70%, high durability and variety of shapes and forms. The foam density and filtration degree can be changed in a wide range. The another technical features are presented below.

Property

Sintered

bronze

CYMAT 

Duocel®

AluminumFoam

ALUPOR™
Porosity, % 30-40 80-98 80-98 55-75
Porosity type open-cell closed-cell open-cell open-cell
Average pore size, μm 3-250 200-50000 200-5000 100-5000
Min pore diameter, μm 5   42278 25-35 40-60
Darcy permeability , m2 0.4×10-11 - 25×10-11  - (1.0-4.4) ×10-5 1×10-12- 2000×10-12
Compressive strength, MPa 60-200 5 2.5 35-109
Tensile strength, MPa 45-150 3.5 1.24 10-30
Normal elasticity module, GPa 150-200 1.3 0.15 1.0-4.0
Heat conductivity, W(m·K) 4.68 2-15 5.8

35  alloy

50 pure Al

Electric conductivity, Sm/m 1×106 - 5×106 1.2×106 1.4×106 3.55-×106 -4.78×10
Heat expansion coefficient, 1/К 18×106 23.6×106 23.6×106 23.6×106
Price, EUR/kg ~49 ~12 ~65 18-28