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Title: Method and apparatus for determining diameter and wall thickness of minute hollow spherical shells

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6891284

Method and apparatus for determining diameter and wall thickness of hollow microspheres or shells wherein terminal velocities of shells traveling in fluid-filled conduits of differing diameters are measured. A wall-effect factor is determined as a ratio of the terminal velocities, and shell outside diameter may then be ascertained as a predetermined empirical function of wall-effect factor. For shells of known outside diameter, wall thickness may then be ascertained as a predetermined empirical function of terminal velocity in either conduit.

DOE Contract Number:
AC08-78DP40030
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy
OSTI ID:
6891284
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English