Lightweight Metal Foam Blocks Blastwave, Debris From High-Explosive Rounds

Posted by | Apr 15, 2018 | |

New research from North Carolina State University and the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate shows that stainless steel composite metal foam (CMF) can block blast pressure and fragmentation at 5,000 feet per second from high explosive incendiary (HEI) rounds that detonate only 18 inches away.

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