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Title: Watching how composites grow

Abstract

This article reports on a powerful x-ray analysis technique that has been developed to let researchers see, in three dimensions and microscopic detail, inside a ceramic composite as it is forming. The high-resolution imaging technique, called X-ray tomographic microscopy (XTM), is similar to medical computed tomography (CT) in which physicians take X-ray images of a patient's body from different angles and then reconstruct the data computationally into three-dimensional pictures of organs. The new method appears to have significant application in fields ranging from materials science to medical bone studies of osteoporosis--situations in which investigators need to visualize the microscopic behavior of complex materials.

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5867327
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Mechanical Engineering; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 115:7; Journal ID: ISSN 0025-6501
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; CERAMICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; IMAGE SCANNERS; MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MATERIALS; 360602* - Other Materials- Structure & Phase Studies

Citation Formats

Ashley, S. Watching how composites grow. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Ashley, S. Watching how composites grow. United States.
Ashley, S. 1993. "Watching how composites grow". United States.
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abstractNote = {This article reports on a powerful x-ray analysis technique that has been developed to let researchers see, in three dimensions and microscopic detail, inside a ceramic composite as it is forming. The high-resolution imaging technique, called X-ray tomographic microscopy (XTM), is similar to medical computed tomography (CT) in which physicians take X-ray images of a patient's body from different angles and then reconstruct the data computationally into three-dimensional pictures of organs. The new method appears to have significant application in fields ranging from materials science to medical bone studies of osteoporosis--situations in which investigators need to visualize the microscopic behavior of complex materials.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5867327}, journal = {Mechanical Engineering; (United States)},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
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