Random cuts in binary mixtures of spheres.
Three-dimensional (3D) disordered media may be studied by performing random planar cuts through the material and trying to go back to 3D geometry from two-dimensional information. We have studied from this point of view numerical packings of spheres of two sizes for which the radii of the spheres and the composition of the mixtures have been obtained from the cuts. We have also studied the froths generated by the related Laguerre-Voronoi tessellation of the packings, and their cuts. Stereological relations, in this specific frame, are derived in both cases.
Gervois
Annie
A
Service de Physique Théorique, DSM, CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
Oger
Luc
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Troadec
Jean-Paul
JP