Pore Space

Description

The goal of this project is to develop an analysis environment for high-resolution CT scans of porous materials. This environment will integrate methods to compute the topological structure of the pore space and use image processing algorithms as well as geometric algorithms to exactly assess geometrical properties. Furthermore, the characteristics of the extracted structures will be investigated and determined. The visualization software Amira provides the framework for the analysis tools. Further information is available in the detailed project description.

Members

Ulrike Homberg
Steffen Prohaska
Daniel Baum

Responsible

Steffen Prohaska

Partners

BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Division IV.3, Waste Treatment and Remedial Engineering (Richard Binner, Ute Kalbe, Wofgang Berger, Jürgen Goebbels, Dietmar Meinel, Franz-Georg Simon)
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen, Professur Grundbau (Helge Vosberg, Karl Josef Witt)
Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (FH), Fachbereich Bauwesen (Tobias Mehlhorn, Volker Slowik)

Funding

BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (2007 – 2009)
DFG (PR 1226/1-2), BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (2010 – 2012)

Duration

01/2008 – 02/2012

Further Information

suffos.bam.de

• U. Homberg, D. Baum, A. Wiebel, S. Prohaska, H.-C. Hege. Definition, Extraction, and Validation of Pore Structures in Porous Material. Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization III, 2013.
• U. Homberg, D. Baum, S. Prohaska, U. Kalbe, K. J. Witt. Automatic Extraction and Analysis of Realistic Pore Structures from μCT Data for Pore Space Characterization of Graded Soil. Proccedings of the 6th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-6) , p. 66 – 73, 2012.
• U. Homberg, D. Baum, S. Prohaska Describing and Analyzing the Dual Structures of Porous Media. Proc. 3D-Microstructure Meeting, p. 24 – 25, 2011.
• R. Binner, U. Homberg, S. Prohaska, U. Kalbe, K.-J. Witt. Identification of Descriptive Parameters of the Soil Pore Structure using Experiments and CT Data. Proccedings of the 5th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-5), p. 397 – 407, 2010.
• U. Homberg, R. Binner, S. Prohaska, V. J. Dercksen, A. Kuß, U. Kalbe. Determining Geometric Grain Structure from X-Ray Micro-Tomograms of Gradated Soil. Proc. Workshop Internal Erosion, volume 21 of Schriftenreihe Geotechnik, p. 37 – 52, 2009.
• O. Semar, R. Binner, U. Homberg, U. Kalbe, T. Mehlhorn, S. Prohaska, V. Slowik, K.-J. Witt. Conditions for Suffosive Erosion Phemomena in Soils – Concept and Approach –. Proc. Workshop Internal Erosion, volume 21 of Schriftenreihe Geotechnik, p. 29 – 35, 2009.
• T. Mehlhorn, S. Prohaska, U. Homberg, V. Slowik. Modelling and Analysis of Particle and Pore Structures in Soils. Proc. Workshop Internal Erosion, volume 21 of Schriftenreihe Geotechnik, p. 53 – 60, 2009.