<ul><li>Preface</li><li>Metal Foams: Keynotes</li><li>An Overview of the Mechanical Properties of Foams and Periodic Lattice Materials</li><li>Fabrication and Properties of Porous Materials with Directional Elongated Pores</li><li>Metal Foam as a Combination of Lightweight Engineering and Damping</li><li>VFT: The Novel Vacuum Foaming Technology for Mg-Foams</li><li>A New Generation of Materials and Products</li><li>Metal Foams: Processes</li><li>Analysis of Metal Foaming Behaviour and Development of Foaming Processes</li><li>Study on the Production of Metal Foams Using Maxima of the Hydrogen Solubility of Casting Alloys</li><li>The New Easy Foam-Process - Manufacture and Investigation of Metal Foam Hybrid Components</li><li>Simulation of Metal Foam Formation with the Lattice Boltzmann Method</li><li>Production of Fe-Cr-C-Base Foam: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Fabrication</li><li>Effect of Powder Blending Ratio on Pore Morphology of Combustion Processed Al-Ni Foams</li><li>Influence of Powder Pre-Treatments on Metal Foam Pore Structure</li><li>Investigation of Micropore Creation on the PM-Foam Morphology</li><li>Casting of Metallic Sponges Using Rapid Prototyping</li><li>Precision Cast Near-Net-Shape Components Based on Cellular Metal Materials</li><li>Injection Moulding of Magnesium Integral Foams</li><li>Production and Properties of Foamed Magnesium</li><li>Synthesis of Open Cell Metal Foams by Microwave Radiation Route</li><li>SlipReactionFoamSintering (SRFS)- Process: Production, Parameters, Characterisation</li><li>Sintered Open-Celled Metal Foams Made by Replication Method - Manufacturing and Properties on Example of 316L Stainless Steel Foams</li><li>Closed Cell Metal-Hollow-Sphere-Structures Made by Expandable Polystyrene Technology</li><li>Metal Foams: Properties</li><li>Micromechanical Modelling and Experimental Characterization of the Deformation Behaviour of Open-Cell Metal Foams</li><li>Notch Sensitivity of Aluminium Foams under Fatigue Loading</li><li>Strain-Hardening and Damage of Foamed Aluminium during Tensile Deformation</li><li>Simulation of Cellular Aluminium: Crash and Impact</li><li>Effect of Cell Characteristics on the Compressive Deformation Behavior of a Closed-Cell Aluminium</li><li>Characterization and Simulation of the Mechanical Behaviour of Aluminium Foams</li><li>Structure Evaluation of Aluminium Foams and Relationships to Compression Strength</li><li>Influence of the Local Density Distribution on the Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Foam</li><li>Advanced Pore Morphology (APM) Aluminium Foams - Concept, Process and Characteristics</li><li>Tension and Compression Behaviour of Stainless Steel (316L) Hollow Sphere Structures</li><li>Determination of Linear and Non-Linear Mechanical Properties of Sintered Hollow-Sphere Structures</li><li>Control of the Carbon Content in Metal Hollow Sphere Structures by Variation of the Debindering Conditions</li><li>3D Characterisation of Metallic Foams by Micro Tomography</li><li>Characterization of the Internal Structure of Aluminum Foams by Thermal Conductivity Values and Computed Tomography</li><li>Quantitative Structural Characterisation of Aluminium Foams by Micro Computer Tomography</li><li>Analysis of Volume Images - A Tool for Understanding the Microstructure of Foams</li><li>Metal Foams: Component Fabrication and Application</li><li>Fatigue Behaviour of Ultrasonically Welded Aluminium-Foam-Sandwich (AFS)/Sheet-Metal-Joints</li><li>Study of Adsorption/Desorption Behaviors of Porous Structures</li><li>Design and Construction of an Energy Absorber Prototype Based on Aluminum Foams</li><li>High-Temperature-Forming of Aluminium Foam for Application in Sandwich Components</li><li>Detachable Fasteners for Aluminium Foams</li><li>Laser Welding of Cellular Metallic Materials</li><li>Investigations on Foaming AFS-Tailored Blanks</li><li>Polymer Foams: Keynotes</li><li>Physics of Polymer Foams</li><li>The Role of Rheology in Foaming Polymers</li><li>Polymer Foams: Processes</li><li>Optifoam<sup>TM</sup> - A New Process for Thermoplastic Foams</li><li>Foam Extrusion of Polyetherimide with Chemical Blowing Agents</li><li>Polypropylene Foam</li><li>Rheological Properties and Foaming Behaviour of Linear and Long-Chain Branched Polypropylenes</li><li>Polymer Foams: Particle Foams and Simulation</li><li>Mechanical Behaviour of Polymer Foams under Multiaxial Loads</li><li>Experimental Investigation of Polypropylene Foams as Base for Numerical Simulation</li><li>Experimental and Numerical Studies of Polymer Foaming Process</li><li>Improved Cost-Performance Relationships for Expandable Polypropylene (EPP) Particle Foam Components by Online-Monitoring of Processing Parameters</li><li>Polymer Foams: Foam Injection Molding</li><li>Injection-Molded Thermoplastic Foam in Multi-Layer Arrangements</li><li>Foam Injection-Moulding of Low Density Polymer Components</li><li>Microcellular Moulding with Gas Counter Pressure Using Physical Blowing Agent</li><li>Polymer Foams: Electrets</li><li>Ferroelectrets: Polymer Foams for Piezoelectric Transducers</li><li>Polymer Foams: Commercial Applications and Products</li><li>Polyurethane Foams</li><li>Structural Foams and Acoustic Materials</li><li>Basotect (R) - From Brittle to Flexible</li><li>Chemical Foaming Agents and Their Applications</li><li>Polymeric Foams as Performance Materials for Sportshoes</li></ul>