Keywords
porosity
nonwoven fabrics
Abstract
The new algorithm to study the properties of nonwoven fabrics is presented in the paper. The algorithm consists in image processing of the image of the highlighted nonwoven fabric. From the image there are selected the bright areas, which means sparse distributions of the fibers. Because nonwoven fabrics are used, among others, as medical and filtration materials their structure has significant impact on their ownership. The software task is primarily determine the porosity of the material.
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