Assessment of fibre orientation in reinforced concrete using Fourier image transform

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 258-265

  Redon, C ^a,b   Chermant, L ^a   Chermant, J L ^a   Coster, M ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Groupe ESTP   (France)

Author keywords

Amorphous cast iron fibres; Anisotropy; Automatic image analysis; Fibre reinforced concrete; Fourier transform; Rose of directions

Indexed keywords

CAST IRON; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FIBERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS CAST IRON FIBER; AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; CONCRETE MATRIX; FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETES; FIBRE ORIENTATION; FOURIER IMAGES; IMAGE TRANSFORMS; IRON FIBERS; ROSE OF DIRECTION; X RAY PHOTOGRAPH;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

ALGORITHM; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; FIBER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031661269     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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