Digital image analysis to determine pore opening size distribution of nonwoven geotextiles

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 280-290

  Aydilek, Ahmet H ^a   Oguz, Seyfullah H ^b   Edil, Tuncer B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Root cause Analysis Network Management Design and Development   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital techniques; Filtration; Geosynthetics; Imaging techniques; Pore size distribution

Indexed keywords

APPARENT OPENING SIZES (AOS); DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY ALGORITHMS; NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILES;

ALGORITHMS; FIBERS; FILTRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PORE SIZE;

GEOTEXTILES;

ALGORITHMS; FILTRATION; GEOTEXTILES; PORE SIZE;

EID: 11344295806     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2002)16:4(280)     Document Type: Article

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