Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia:

A. A. Aksenov, Professor of a Chair of Materials Science and Materials Technology of Engineering School
Yu. N. Mansurov, Head of a Chair of Materials Science and Materials Technology of Engineering School, e-mail: mansurov.yn@dvfu.ru

National University of Sciecne and Technology MISiS, Moscow, Russia:
D. O. Ivanov, Assistant Professor of a Chair of Metal Science of Non-Ferrous Metals

Tashkent Chemical-Technological Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan:
D. S. Kadyrova, Assistant Professor

Nowadays, metals and alloys remain the main constructional materials for economy industries. Considering the consumption volume, aluminum, its alloys and wastes (the details which effective life is over) take the second place after steel. It is easy to explain looking at large natural reserves of raw materials for aluminum production in crust, and valuable complex of mechanical, physical and chemical, technological properties of aluminumbased alloys. Developers impose the requirements for decrease in the weight of designs, equipment and machines: that's why, in the last decade foamformed metal materials (so-called foamed metals) were developed. Aluminum alloys, owing to their properties' uniqueness, have also drawn attention of materials scientists as the raw materials for foam aluminum production. There were developed the technologies allowing to use the foam aluminum as the insulating elements for machine and facility strengthening. Foam aluminum developers set a purpose of its production from the alloys with increased durability. At the same time, some works were carried out to use the scrap and wastes of aluminum alloys for production a foam aluminum, and almost no works were carried out for development of technologies in production of art porcelain elements and metal art. Aluminum alloys have typical metal gloss, which makes them interesting for art objects making. In connection with this, it is urgent to develop a method of obtaining a foam aluminum for art materials science, development and production of art objects making technology. This article shows the results of investigations for obtaining a foam aluminum from scrap and waste of aluminum alloys. The optimal modes of obtaining a foam aluminum are developed for production of art objects for the market in the Far East. This work was carried out in the creative collaboration of teams of the Far Eastern Federal University, National University of Science and Technology MISiS and Tashkent Chemical-Technological University within the international projects TEMPUS-MMATENG and TEMPUS-NETCENG.

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