Patent ID: 9676916
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: C08J,G01N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: calculating, utilizing at least one computer, a range of potential values for a first material property of a syntactic foam, the syntactic foam including a matrix material and hollow particles, on the basis of a wall thickness and a volume fraction of the hollow particles; selecting a first material property value from the range of potential values for the first material property; calculating, utilizing at least one computer, a range of potential values for a second material property of the syntactic foam on the basis of the wall thickness and the volume fraction of the hollow particles while maintaining the selected first material property value; selecting a second material property value from the range of potential values for the second material property; calculating, utilizing at least one computer, the wall thickness and the volume fraction of the hollow particles that will produce a syntactic foam with the selected first material property value and the selected second material property value; and producing a syntactic foam with the wall thickness and the volume fraction of the hollow particles that will produce a syntactic foam with the selected first material property value and the selected second material property value; wherein the first material property and the second material property are selected from the dielectric constant, coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), damping capacity, elastic modulus, storage modulus, loss modulus, and density; and the first material property is different than the second material property.