Digital imaging techniques for assessment of homogeneity of granular materials

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1526, 1996, Pages 121-128

  Al Shibli, Khalid ^a   Macari, Emir José ^b   Sture, Stein ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EPOXY RESINS; GEOTEXTILES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SOILS; VISCOSITY;

DISSECTION; HOMOGENEITY; ISOTROPY; LOCAL VOID RATIO; PARTICLE ORIENTATION;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 0030287753     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1526-15     Document Type: Article

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