Abstract: A micromechanical analysis for the linear elastic behavior of a low-density foam with open cells is presented. The foam structure is based on the geometry of a Kelvin soap froth with flat ...

Abstract: A constitutive model for the nonlinear elastic behavior of isotropic low-density opencell foams with three-dimensional structure is formulated in terms of a strain energy function. The theory is ...

Abstract: A theoretical model for the linear elastic properties of three-dimensional open-cell foams is developed. We consider a tetrahedral unit cell, which contains four identical half-struts that join ...

Abstract: In osteoporotic trabecular bone, bone loss occurs by thinning and subsequent resorption of the trabeculae. In this study, we compare the effects of density reductions from uniform thinning of ...