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Tribology

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Plugin for ImageJ / Fiji

Tribology

Pelin Dogan, Bastien Meylan, Daniel Sage and Kilian Wasmer.

Dynamical Processes Group (EMPA) and Biomedical Image Group (EPFL) Switzerland.


Colour image reconstructed with the image from LED1 (shown in the middle) sent in the green channel and the negative of image from LED2 (shown on the right) sent into the red channel

Outline

This plugin presents an easy-to-use analysis tools to follow the evolution and/or changes of textured surfaces and/or surface topography recorded by a high magnification camera.

Reference

B. Meylan, P. Dogan, D. Sage, and K. Wasmer, A simple, fast and low-cost method for in situ monitoring of topographical changes and wear rate of a complex tribo-system under mixed lubrication, Wear, Vol. 364-365, pp. 22-30, 2016.

Tutorial

Tutorial in PDF.

Software

The software is a plugin running on ImageJ or Fiji. ImageJ is a general purpose image-processing package under public domain licence; it runs on several platforms: Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX.

Installation

  1. Get a copy of ImageJ.
  2. Download the plugin: Tribology_.jar.
  3. Place the file Tribology_.jar in the "plugins" folder of ImageJ. That's it!

Main features

It allows the user to visualize and analyze the textured surfaces in various ways: