Cluster characterisation in a metal matrix composite

Effects of temperature and vacancy defects on tensile deformation of single-walled carbon nanotubes

“…Fig. 2(a) and (b) illustrate the structural changes which occur during tube deformations at different levels of tension in the form of a radial distribution function (RDF) analysis [32,33]. It is noted that these figures consider only the (6,6) and (10,0) tubes since these particular tubes represent the two extreme cases.…”

Effect of high ratio of reinforcement particle size to matrix powder size and volume fraction on microstructure, densification and tribological properties of SiCp reinforced metal matrix composites manufactured via hot pressing method

“…There have been many techniques such as Dirichlet and finite-body tessellation and digital image dilation techniques to quantify the clusters of reinforcement particles in microstructure [58][59][60][61][62][63]. In the present study, clustering degree (C d ) of reinforcement particles in each sample was quantified by proportioning the sum of the area of all the reinforcement particle clusters to the whole microstructure area.…”

Processing of Ultrafine-Size Particulate Metal Matrix Composites by Advanced Shear Technology

“…[48][49][50][51][52][53] One of the simplest and most effective in detecting pronounced changes in the MMC microstructure is the quadrat method. [53] With the quadrat method the image to be studied is divided into grid of square cells where the square quadrat size is approximately twice the size of the mean area per particle.…”