Publications by Etienne Combaz

Hole and notch sensitivity of aluminium replicated foam

Andreas Mortensen, Andreas Rossoll, Etienne Combaz

The flow and failure behaviour of replicated pure aluminium foams in the presence of holes and notches is explored, varying the pore size and the notch depth or hole radius. Flat dog-bone tensile specimens containing a cylindrical hole, and cylindrical V-n ...

Elsevier2011

Multiaxial yield behaviour of Al replicated foam

Willy Dufour, Andreas Mortensen, Etienne Combaz, Raphaël Charvet, Claudio Bacciarini

Multiaxial experiments are performed on replicated aluminium foam using a custom-built apparatus. The foam structure is isotropic, and features open monomodal pores 75 mu m in average diameter. Plane stress (sigma(1), sigma(2), sigma(3) = 0) and axisymmetr ...

Elsevier2011

Multiaxial Yield and Fracture of Replicated Microcellular Aluminium

Etienne Combaz

This work addresses the behaviour of replicated microcellular pure aluminium under multiaxial stress states and in the presence of stress and strain localization sites. Processing of the foam was conducted in-house, using the replication process. The main ...

EPFL2010

Yield surface of polyurethane and aluminium replicated foam

Willy Dufour, Andreas Mortensen, Etienne Combaz, Raphaël Charvet, Claudio Bacciarini

It has been proposed in the literature, based on theoretical considerations and on finite-element calculations, that all three stress tensor invariants govern the yield surface of cellular materials. Recent experiments on 75 gm pore size aluminium replicat ...

Elsevier2010

Fracture toughness of Al replicated foam

Andreas Mortensen, Etienne Combaz

Elastoplastic toughness testing of pure aluminium replicated foam is conducted following a J-procedure adapted from the ASTM E1820-08a standard using disc-shaped compact tension specimens. Tests cover a wide range of foam relative density V-m (10-24%). Res ...

Elsevier2010

Uniaxial deformation of microcellular metals: model systems and simplified analysis

Jean-François Despois, Randoald Müller, Andreas Mortensen, Yves Conde, Etienne Combaz, Frédéric Diologent, Sébastien Philippe Soubielle

Microcellular aluminium can be produced by a process known as replication; this involves the infiltration of a packed bed of NaCl particles which are subsequently leached after metal solidification. The resulting material features a uniform distribution of ...

Springer2009

Processing of Ag-Cu alloy foam by the replication process

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Etienne Combaz, Vincent Laporte, Frédéric Diologent, Fabien Duc

Particulate reinforced material ...

2009

Dynamic Properties of Materials for Alpine Skis

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Véronique Michaud, Christian Fischer, Etienne Combaz

The aim of the present research has been to quantify the influence of different materials on the global dynamic response of a ski. The properties of the individual constituent materials were characterized as a function of temperature and frequency using dy ...

Springer2006