Watching how composites grow
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.
- OSTI ID:
- 5867327
- Journal Information:
- Mechanical Engineering; (United States), Vol. 115:7; ISSN 0025-6501
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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