Etat Francais Represente Par Le Delegue General Pour L'armement

Huette Klein-reichenbach Gesellschaft M.b.h

Arc Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen Gmbh

Hütte Klein-Reichenbach Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Peter Schulz

Franz Dobesberger

Herbert J Flankl

Dietmar Leitlmeier

Alois Birgmann

Pierre-Francois Louvigne

Gottfried Rettenbacher

Josef Reiter

Franz Feuchtenschlager

A process for producing a lightweight molded part, comprising introducing a gas into a particle-containing, molten metal to produce a metal foam having voids with a monomodal distribution of their dimensions, introducing the metal foam into a casting die and compressing it therein essentially under all-round pressure; and the molded part made by this process.

Process for producing a lightweight molded part and molded part made of metal foam

The invention relates to the area of armor and in particular to multilayer armor having a composite layer containing a first material made of a metal or an alloy and a second material where the second material is porous and in that the metal or metal alloy is infiltrated into some or all of the pores of the second material and characterized in that a cage made of plates having openings contains the first and second materials and in that the cage is itself coated, at least partly, with the infiltration metal or alloy, the melting point of the cage material being higher than that of the infiltration metal or alloy.

Multilayer composite armour

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Simbach, Germany

Peter Schulz