Study of porosity measurement using the computer tomograph

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send Tomasz Kowaluk , Adam Woźniak Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with performance of measurement of pore volume in aluminum cast. The experiments were carried out on a METROTOM 800 Carl Zeiss computer tomograph. Results coming from algorithm of automatic detection were compared against to the manual detection according to the ISO surface. Results have been analyzed using the VGStudio MAX software.

Keywords

computer tomograph, porosity

Pomiary porowatości za pomocą tomografu komputerowego

Streszczenie

W artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań dotyczące pomiarów objętości porów w odlewach aluminiowych. Badania przeprowadzono na przemysłowym tomografie komputerowym METROTOM 800 firmy Carl Zeiss. Porównano wyniki algorytmów automatycznego i manualnego wykrywania porów w odniesieniu do powierzchni ISO. Do analizy wyników zastosowano oprogramowanie VGStudio MAX.

Słowa kluczowe

porowatość, tomografia komputerowa

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