ABSTRACT
Complex of methods for determining certain quantitative
microstructural
parameters, e.g., the
mean size
and the shape of
grains,
grain size distribution
, volume fraction of
disperse particles
and other
microconstituents
, interparticle spacing, etc. Since the
metallographic samples
are opaque, all these data relate to two-dimensional sections of a three-dimensional
structure
. Thus, they are to be converted into three-dimensional parameters using image analysis. Conversion methods are given in quantitative metallography that is also referred to as stereology.
