Stereological estimates of liberation from mineral section measurements: A rederivation of Barbery's formulae with extensions

Powder Technology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-152

  Leigh, G M ^a   Lyman, G J ^b   Gottlieb, P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boolean model; Image analysis; Microstructures; Mineral processing; Poisson polyhedra; Random uniform isotropic fragmentation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ERRORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

BARBERY METHOD; BOOLEAN MODEL; MINERAL PROCESSING; POISSON POLYHEDRA; RANDOM UNIFORM ISOTROPIC FRAGMENTATION; STEREOLOGICAL ESTIMATES;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030142143     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0032-5910(95)03080-8     Document Type: Article

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