Spatial Series and Fractal Analysis Associated with Fracture Behaviour of UO₂ Ceramic Material

Abstract

SEM micrographs of the fracture surface for UO2 ceramic materials have been analysed. In this paper, we introduce some algorithms and develop a computer application based on the time-series method. Utilizing the embedding technique of phase space, the attractor is reconstructed. The fractal dimension, lacunarity, and autocorrelation dimension average value have been calculated.

Keywords

• ceramics
• SEM micrographs
• fractal analysis
• time series
• fractal dimension
• lacunarity