3D reconstruction and analysis of the fragmented grains in a composite material

Luc Gillibert (1) , Dominique Jeulin (1)

1 CMM - Centre de Morphologie Mathématique

X-ray microtomography from solid propellant allows studying the microstructure of fragmented grains in damaged samples. A new reconstruction algorithm of fragmented grains for 3D images is introduced. Based on a watershed transform of a morphological closing of the input image, the algorithm can be used with different sets of markers. Two of them are compared. After the grain reconstruction, a multiscale segmentation algorithm is used to extract each fragment of the damaged grains. This allows an original quantitative study of the fragmentation of each grain in 3D. Experimental results on X-ray microtomographic images of a solid propellant fragmented under compression are presented and validated.

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Matière Condensée [cond-mat]; Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Luc Gillibert, Dominique Jeulin. 3D reconstruction and analysis of the fragmented grains in a composite material. Image Analysis & Stereology, 2013, 32 (2), pp.107-115. ⟨hal-00879263⟩