Visible Cement Data Set.
Visible Cement Data Set.
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Bentz, D. P.; Mizell, S.; Satterfield, S. G.; Devaney,
J. E.; George, W. L.; Ketcham, P. M.; Graham, J. R.;
Porterfield, J. E.; Quenard, D. A.; Vallee, F. A.;
Sallee, H
Journal of Research of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Vol. 107, No. 2, 137-148,
March/Arpil 2002.
Available from:
AVALIABLE ONLINE: http://www.nist.gov/jres
Keywords:
cements; cement hydration; image analysis;
microstructure; Plaster of Paris; visualization; x-ray
microtomography
Abstract:
With advances in X-ray microtomography, it is now
possible to obtain three-dimensional representations of
a material's microstructure with a spatial resolution of
better than one micrometer per voxel. The Visible Cement
Data Set represents a collection of 3-D data sets
obtained using the European Synchrotron Radiation
Facility in Grenoble, France in September of 2000. Most
of the images obtained are for hydrating portland
cements pastes, with a few data sets representing
hydrating Plaster of Paris and a common building brick.
All of these data sets are being made available on the
Visible Cement Data Set website at
http://visiblecement.nist.gov. The website includes the
raw 3-D datafiles, a description of the material imaged
for each data set, example two-dimensional images and
visualizations for each data set, and a collection of C
language computer programs that will be of use in
processing and analyzing the 3-D microstructural images.
This paper provides the details of the experiments
performed at the ESRF, the analysis procedures utilized
in obtaining the data set files, and a few
representative example images for each of the three
materials investigated.
