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Menu Selection 9 can be used to measure the volume and surface pixel counts for each phase present in any 3-D microstructure. This menu selection can be employed during the creation of an initial microstructure, after hydration of an initial microstructure, or after leaching of a hydrated microstructure. To use this selection, the user need only supply the name of the 3-D microstructure image file to be analyzed. Within one minute to two minutes from submitting the form, a table of the volume and surface counts, such as that shown in Figure 11, will be returned to the user. In this case, the volume and surface fractions for the four major clinker phases in an analyzed image can be compared to those requested using Menu Selection 7 (see Figure 9), with a very good agreement being observed.
Figure 11: Results from spatial statistics analysis of an initial 3-D microstructure.