Avtor/Urednik		Stroeven, Piet; Guo, Zhanqi
Naslov		Sampling concrete by too small elements; what should we do to get reliable information?
Tip		članek
Vir		Image Anal Stereol
Vol. in št.		Letnik 27, št. 3
Leto izdaje		2008
Obseg		str. 151-62
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		Macroscopically heterogeneous materials like concrete are generally sampled by too small, i.e., subrepresentative elements that can be either of 2D (section images) or of 3D nature (specimens). Based on scientific notions, like stochastic heterogeneity and structure-sensitivity, which are at the very heart of materials science and stereology, the paper demonstrates biases in obtained information to be generally inevitable when derived from such sub-representative designs. Only reliable comparison studies can be performed under the condition that the linear size of samples and of minimum structural dimensions (resulting from observation resolution) are maintained as fixed proportions of the relevant representative area and/or volume elements. This is demonstrated by three case studies.
Deskriptorji		SAMPLE SIZE MICROSCOPY COMPUTER SIMULATION PARTICLE SIZE IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED