Abstract：Aluminum foam composite is a new type of structural and functional material with light weight, high specific strength and stiffness, good sound and energy absorption, damping, heat insulation and other excellent properties. It is widely used in automobile, construction, military industry, aerospace and other fields. The commonly used reinforcements for aluminum foam composites are hard ceramic particles, fibers and cenosphere or hollow steel ball, etc. And the traditional preparation technology for this kind of material is powder metallurgy, pressure infiltraiton, melt flow method and in situ preparation technology, etc. In this paper, the research progress in the reinforcements, preparation and performance of aluminum foam composites were introduced, and the development tendency of this kind of material is summarized and prospected.
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