Modern routes to explore concrete's complex pore space

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-86

  Stroeven, Piet ^a   Guo, Zhanqi ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concrete; Discrete element computer simulation; Mathematical morphology; Particle dispersion; Porosity; Stereology

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949155112     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v25.p75-86     Document Type: Review

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