Quantifying the dispersion of mixture microstructures

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 118-125

  Luo, Z P ^a   Koo, J H ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite; Dispersion; Fibre; Inclusion; Microstructure; Mixture; Multiphase; Particle; Quantification; Section

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERAL METHOD; INCLUSION PARTICLES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPHASES; PARTICLE; PARTICLE FREE PATH; PARTICLE SPACING; QUANTIFICATION; SECTION;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847729555     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01722.x     Document Type: Article

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