Influence of Heat Treatment on Mechanical Property of Steel Hollow Sphere and Its Sheet Construction

Heat treatments, water quenching and annealing, are performed on the metallic hollow spheres (MHS) made from steel with 4.0 mm in outer diameter. They are pierced then put on a piece of tungsten alloy wire for making a MHS thread. The thread is set in between two neighboring warps of the tungsten alloy and the thread is placed in a reticular pattern. The MHS fabric sheet which has plain weave structure is produced by the weaving process. Furthermore, a sandwich construction of the sheet with 2 sheets of aluminum plate. The influence of the heat treatments on difference of mechanical and energy absorption property are evaluated by mean of compression test for the sheet along with the thickness direction. In addition, an aluminum pipe is filled with a heat treated MHS sheet and compression test is performed for the pipe along the radial direction. Its difference of compression load and energy consumption property is investigated.