Brinell and Vickers hardness measurement using image processing and analysis techniques

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Filho, Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças ^a   Da Silveira Cavalcante, Tarique ^a   De Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C ^b   Tavares, João Manuel R S ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computational system; Computational vision; Histogram binarization; Image segmentation; Indentation images; Manual hardness measurement; Region growing; Testing and evaluation

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL VISION; HARDNESS MEASUREMENT; HISTOGRAM BINARIZATION; REGION GROWING; TESTING AND EVALUATION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; VICKERS HARDNESS; VICKERS HARDNESS TESTING; WEAR RESISTANCE;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 77953261780     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/JTE102220     Document Type: Article

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