Applications of Synchrotron X-Ray Microtomography to Mesoscale Materials
Abstract
We discuss the application of synchrotron X-ray microtomography (XMT) to granular matter, foams, crumpled membranes, and paper. XMT provides rapid, high-resolution, fully three-dimensional characterization of each of these classes of material. In some cases, subsequent three-dimensional image processing allows the virtual reconstruction of the disordered material as a specified assemblage of idealized basic structural units. This allows measurement of otherwise inaccessible correlation functions and can also be used as the starting point for data-initiated simulations.
- Publication:
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Challenges in Granular Physics. Edited by HALSEY THOMAS ET AL. Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd
- Pub Date:
- 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812795410_0019
- Bibcode:
- 2002cgp..book..193S