...Mengmeng Wu; Jianfeng Wang In this paper, a novel investigation of the particle breakage behaviour of sands is made using combined techniques of X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) and sand particle tracking. First, an in situ μCT triaxial test on a miniature sand specimen is conducted to allow...

... with micro-focus X-ray computed tomography (μCT). The CT slices underwent image processing for denoising, segmentation of distinct phases, reconstruction of sand particles and feature extraction within the soil specimen. The proposed approach incorporated a two-step particle tracking method, which initially...