Crack Detection Method Applied to 3D Computed Tomography Images of Baked Carbon Anodes

Autor: Donald Picard, Julien Lauzon-Gauthier, Carl Duchesne, Houshang Alamdari, Mario Fafard, Donald P. Ziegler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Metals, Vol 6, Iss 11, p 272 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-4701
DOI: 10.3390/met6110272
Popis: Carbon anodes used in the aluminium industry were imaged through destructive and non-destructive testing (NDT) methods. For the latter case, computed tomography (CT), which has previously been used to map the 3D apparent density distribution, was extended to crack detection. Previous work has shown how to overcome technical hurdles related to crack detection by using percolation-based algorithms operating on low-resolution images of full-scale baked carbon anodes. The previous application to 2D images was extended here to the 3D case. The crack detection algorithm has been performed on anode slices containing several independent macro cracks with different morphologies.
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