Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks
Paintings, frescoes, antique photographic prints, incunabula, old books, handwritten documents,
sculptures, ceramic fragments, and other ancient manufacts constitute the elements of an extremely
valuable and immense historical patrimony. The digitalization of these treasures opens up the
possibility of using image processing and... | | Ceramic Matrix Composites: Fiber Reinforced Ceramics and their Applications
Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) represent a relatively new class of quasiductile
ceramic materials. They are characterized by carbon or ceramic fi bers embedded
in ceramic matrices (oxide or non - oxide) with comparatively low bonding
forces between the fi bers and the matrix. These weak intefaces, in combination
with a porous... | | |