ISSN:
1662-9752
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
In several fields of materials science space-filling polyhedral systems are generally usedfor modeling and characterizing the microstructure of polycrystalline and cellular materials. In thispaper a simple quantitative method designated to classify 3D triply periodic, space-filling, cellularsystems is outlined. The concept of the proposed method is based on the known analogy betweenthe combinatorial structure of 3D space-filling polyhedral systems and of 4D polytopes. Forclassification purposes various topological shape indices are defined and tested. It is demonstratedthat using two appropriately selected shape factors (asymmetry and compactness coefficients) aglobal combinatorial classification of cellular systems can be performed
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/02/19/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FMSF.589.341.pdf
