Image segmentation is an important issue in many industrial processes, with high potential
to enhance the manufacturing process derived from raw material imaging. For example …

To understand mechanical properties in materials, grain size determination plays a
fundamental role. Although, several automatic techniques for the determination of grain size …

Characterizing graphite shape in cast irons is of importance for control of cast components.
This is still done based on standard charts and has been more and more supported by …

The measures most commonly used in current literature to compute the roundness of digital
objects are derivations of the form factor based on area and perimeter computations …

In this article, X-ray microtomography and color metallographic techniques have been used
to perform three-dimensional quantitative characterization of graphite nodule morphology in …

Traditionally, the well-known geometrical structures are used as useful geometrical
descriptors, but, an adequate characterization and recognition are deeply affected by …

In this article, a methodology for the generation of geometric models representing the
microstructure of a ductile cast iron (DCI) is presented. This methodology is based on a …

Ductile iron contains free graphite nodules inside the metallic matrix, which generally
consists of ferrite and pearlite in the as-cast condition. The casting thicknesses greatly …

When producing aquaculture fish feed pellets, the size of the output product is of immense
importance. As the production method cannot produce pellets of constant and uniform size …

The aim of this work is to propose a new methodology to relate Ductile Cast Irons (DCIs)
wear behavior with the separation distances and sizes of the graphite nodules through an …