Limitation in obtainable surface roughness of hardened cement paste: 'Virtual' topographic experiment based on focussed ion beam nanotomography datasets

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-206

  Trtik, P ^a   Dual, J ^a   Muench, B ^b   Holzer, L ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FIB; FIB nanotomography; Surface roughness; Virtual experiment

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; GRINDING (MACHINING); HARDENING; ION BEAMS; POLISHING; POROUS MATERIALS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FIB; FIB NANOTOMOGRAPHY; FOCUSSED ION-BEAMS; HARDENED CEMENT PASTE; NANOMECHANICAL TESTING; NANOTOMOGRAPHY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SURFACE PROFILES; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CEMENT; ION;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 55349149408     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02090.x     Document Type: Article

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