Volume 13, Issue 2, 2004

The fractal dimension of X-ray tomographic sections of a woven composite

John Summerscales1, Paul M Russell2, Stepan Lomov3, Ignaas Verpoest3 and Richard S Parnas4

1University of Plymouth School of Engineering, RYB 008, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
2Peninsula Medical School, PSQ C301, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
(formerly Department of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, United Kingdom)
3Department of Metallurgy and Material Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
4Chemical Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Road, U-222, Storrs, CT 06269-3222, United States of America

(Received 10/03; accepted 6/04)

Abstract

Plain woven E-glass fibre-reinforced epoxy resin composites have been imaged using X-ray computed tomography. A data-set of 150 cross-sectional slices have been quantified using fractal dimensions. For this data set, the fractal dimension analysis returns a consistent numerical value for each of the slices in the two similar orthogonal planes.


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