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Analysis of Tomography Images of Bonded Fibre Networks to Measure Distributions of Fibre Segment Length and Fibre Orientation
Author(s) -
Tan J. C.,
Elliott J. A.,
Clyne T. W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
advanced engineering materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1527-2648
pISSN - 1438-1656
DOI - 10.1002/adem.200600033
Subject(s) - materials science , orientation (vector space) , composite material , measure (data warehouse) , tomography , sintering , thermal , optics , geometry , computer science , mathematics , meteorology , physics , database
The architecture of bonded fibre networks produced by sintering of short stainless steel fibres has been characterised using computed X‐ray microtomography. Two important characteristics of such networks are the distributions of fibre segment length and fibre orientation. These have strong influences on the mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. To extract quantitative architectural data from the reconstructed fibre networks, a 3‐D skeletonisation algorithm was used to convert the reconstructed fibre surfaces into their corresponding medial axes.