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J Res Natl Inst Stand Technol. 2002 Apr 01;107(2):137-48. doi: 10.6028/jres.107.013. Print 2002.

The Visible Cement Data Set.

Journal of research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dale P Bentz, Symoane Mizell, Steve Satterfield, Judith Devaney, William George, Peter Ketcham, James Graham, James Porterfield, Daniel Quenard, Franck Vallee, Hebert Sallee, Elodie Boller, Jose Baruchel

Affiliations

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, USA.
  2. Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Grenoble and Marne-la-Vallee, France.
  3. European Synchrotron Radiation, Facility, Grenoble, France.

PMID: 27446723 PMCID: PMC4859256 DOI: 10.6028/jres.107.013

Abstract

With advances in x-ray microtomography, it is now possible to obtain three-dimensional representations of a material's microstructure with a voxel size of less than one micrometer. The Visible Cement Data Set represents a collection of 3-D data sets obtained using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France in September 2000. Most of the images obtained are for hydrating portland cement pastes, with a few data sets representing hydrating Plaster of Paris and a common building brick. All of these data sets are being made available on the Visible Cement Data Set website at http://visiblecement.nist.gov. The website includes the raw 3-D datafiles, a description of the material imaged for each data set, example two-dimensional images and visualizations for each data set, and a collection of C language computer programs that will be of use in processing and analyzing the 3-D microstructural images. This paper provides the details of the experiments performed at the ESRF, the analysis procedures utilized in obtaining the data set files, and a few representative example images for each of the three materials investigated.

Keywords: Plaster of Paris; cement hydration; image analysis; microstructure; visualization; x-ray microtomography

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