Quantification of the internal structure and automatic generation of voxel models of textile composites from X-ray computed tomography data》.pdf

Composites: Part A 69 (2015) 150–158 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Composites: Part A journal homepage: www. /loc ate/compositesa Quantification of the internal structure and automatic generation of voxel models of textile composites from X-ray computed tomography data Ilya Straumit ⇑, Stepan V. Lomov, Martine Wevers Department of Materials Engineering (MTM), KU Leuven, Belgium a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: X-ray computed tomography provides an opportunity for a detailed examination of the inner structure of Received 22 April 2014 fibre reinforced composites. Three-dimensional images, obtained with micro-CT, can be used for a real- Received in revised form 3 November 2014 istic modelling of composite materials. All modelling objectives imply the knowledge of the orientations Accepted 10 November 2014 of the fibres inside the composite, which determine the local (anisotropic) properties. This paper inves- Available online 15 November 2014 tigates application of the structure tensor, a concept from the image processing field, to the determina- tion of the orientations of fibres and to segment the image into the material’s components, for the Keywords: purpose of an automatic generation of a voxel-based description of the representative volume element. A. Fabrics/textiles B. Directional orientation The segmentation o