Pore space analysis of beech wood: the vessel network
Materials Science
2015-09-15 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
Water transport in wood is vital for the survival of trees. With synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM), it becomes possible to characterize and quantify the 3D network formed by vessels that are responsible for longitudinal transport. In the present paper, the spatial size dependence of vessels and the organization inside single growth rings in terms of vessel induced porosity was studied by SRXTM. Network characteristics, such as connectivity, were deduced by digital image analysis from the processed tomographic data and related to known complex network topologies.
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@article{arxiv.1509.03651,
title = {Pore space analysis of beech wood: the vessel network},
author = {Philipp Hass and Falk K. Wittel and S. A. McDonald and F. Marone and M. Stampanoni and Hans J. Herrmann and Peter Niemz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03651},
year = {2015}
}