Image analysis of clay microstructure

Leng, Xiao Ling and Hounslow, Mark W. and Bai, Xiao Hong and Luo, Dai Sheng and Costa, Luciano and Xue, Xiaonian and Tovey, N. Keith and Smart, Peter (1993) Image analysis of clay microstructure. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Image Processing: Techniques and Applications in Civil Engineering. Publ by ASCE, Kona, Hawaii, USA, pp. 77-86. ISBN 0872629791

Abstract

The paper summarises new methods which have been developed to analyse oriented textures in electron micrographs of clay soils, complementary methods using polarising microscopy, and an expert system for soil description.