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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Ngk Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A method for analyzing a microstructure of a porous body is, for example, a method using porous-body data in which positional information providing a position of a voxel of a porous body obtained by three-dimensional scanning is associated with voxel type information including information that allows determination as to whether the voxel is a spatial voxel representing a space or an object voxel representing an object. This method includes (a) a step of defining an imaginary surface that is in contact with at least one object voxel present on a surface of the porous body, and identifying, as opening-related voxels, spatial voxels that are in contact with the imaginary surface and spatial voxels that continuously lie in a linear direction from the imaginary surface; and (b) a step of analyzing a microstructure of the porous body on a basis of the opening-related voxels.