Composites and Polymers

Avizo Software for the Analysis and Visualization of Composite Materials

Structural analysis, development, and characterization of composite materials with Avizo Software

Quickly obtain composite materials’ properties from your images

Composite materials are making their way into many different application areas, ranging from aerospace to automotive and construction. Their properties improve stiffness and strength and allow for design of lightweight components at a reasonable cost. A composite is commonly defined as a combination of two or more distinct materials, each of which retains its own distinctive properties, to create a new material with properties that cannot be achieved by any of the components acting alone.

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software allows you to obtain structural, physical, chemical, and mechanical properties quickly and accurately. With dedicated tools to obtain fiber properties, porosity, and pore network information, Avizo Software is the digital analytic lab you need to analyze your 2D and 3D imaging data, no matter the data acquisition system you used. Read more

Batteries and Energy Storage

Avizo Software for Energy Storage Material Analysis

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of battery and energy storage materials using Avizo Software

Quickly and accurately understand and develop battery and energy storage advanced materials

The performance of advanced new materials, such as batteries, highly depends on their structure. Imaging techniques, such as electron microscopy and CT, are effective methods to capture the structure information of different battery components at multiple length scale. With such information, the next step is the use of imaging analysis software to turn the image into data for researcher to quantitatively interpret the structure–performance correlation.

At the macro level, Thermo Scientific Avizo Software can be used to assess the quality of the manufacturing process by allowing you to look into packaging, check solder points, and detect possible leakage or porosity and delamination. You can also examine the aging process, look into foil, cathode, and anode morphological changes or core leakage.

At the macro level, Thermo Scientific Avizo Software can be used to assess the quality of the manufacturing process by allowing you to look into packaging, check solder points, and detect possible leakage or porosity and delamination. You can also examine the aging process, look into foil, cathode, and anode morphological changes or core leakage. Read more

Metals and alloys

Avizo Software for Alloy and Metal Analysis

3D visualization and analysis software for the characterization of precipitates and inclusions in metals, alloys, and powders.

Better understand the properties of your metals and alloys in a faster way

Whether you are developing new alloys or working to improve materials’ properties, you need to be able to increase the accuracy, reproducibility, and speed of the characterization of precipitates and inclusions in metals. Once you do, you can easily achieve trusted results, allowing you to manufacture better materials. However, this involves manual, time-consuming processes that require a high level of image processing expertise. Thermo Scientific Avizo Software is a versatile analytical solution that provides a high level of accuracy in a fully or semi-automated way for multiple modalities in a single environment. It allows you to dramatically improve your productivity and output on inclusions and precipitates by allowing more people to analyze more samples in a powerful and efficient way—from a single environment. Avizo Software includes advanced segmentation and quantification tools that allow you to combine various proven segmentation tools, each adding to the previous one for better accuracy. To reduce user bias and ensure your results remain objective, you can design and run repeatable QC workflows to optimize your production processes. Read more

Manufacturing Defect Analysis

Avizo Software for Manufacturing Defect Analysis

Quantitative industrial inspection with 3D visualization and analysis software.

Reduce your design cycle, inspection times, and meet higher-level quality standards at a lower cost

Imaging techniques such as computed tomography are increasingly used in industry as a method for nondestructive testing, adding to standard CMM the ability to make digital measurements and detect and quantify defects inside a part.

We developed Thermo Scientific Avizo Software in collaboration with major industrial partners in the aerospace, automotive, and consumer goods industries. We have integrated expertise acquired over more than 10 years so that you can use Avizo Software to visualize, analyze, and inspect parts and materials acquired by CT systems and microscopy. 

Avizo Software provides a comprehensive set of tools that address the entire research-to-production cycle: from materials research in off-line labs to automated quality control in production environments. With Avizo Software, you can reduce your design cycle and inspection times, while meeting higher-level quality standards at a lower cost. Read more

Food

Avizo Software for Food and Agriculture

Quantify and characterize food and seed structures.

Quickly obtain food microstructures’ properties from your imaging data.

3D imaging techniques, such as X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), provide insights into food structure and how it changes in various situations, including processing operations.

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software is an all-in-one image analysis platform that allows the visualization, processing, and quantification of food and seed structures acquired with a variety of imaging modalities. The microstructural characterization and the relation of microstructure to properties needed in food engineering, chemistry, microbiology, and safety are easily made possible by Avizo Software’s comprehensive analysis toolset. Read more

Rocks and Minerals

PerGeos Software

Fast and repeatable imaging-based digital rock analysis.

Improved petroleum reservoir evaluation with meaningful and actionable data

From whole-core CT to SEM, Thermo Scientific PerGeos Software is a unique solution for Digital Rock Analysis trusted by Oil & Gas peers.

Its visualization, processing, and analysis of 2D and 3D digital rock imagery enables improved evaluation of reservoir quality and faster understanding of static and dynamic rock properties that impact production. Read more

Paleontology and Anthropology

Avizo Software for Paleontological Research

3D visualization and analysis software for digitally dissecting and measuring paleontological samples.

Digital lab for fast visualization and segmentation of complex paleontological, archeological, and anthropological specimens and artifacts.

Paleontologists and comparative biologists increasingly use volumetric imaging to enable exciting discoveries. Thermo Scientific Avizo Software offers a suite of trusted digital tools for viewing, digitally dissecting, and measuring such 3D data. Compelling animations and publication-quality figures can be rendered from data segmented using manual and automated tools. Texture classification and deep learning assist with challenging segmentation of bone from matrix or labeling contrast-enhanced CT. Routine tasks, such as trabecular bone analysis and endocast extraction, can be automated and shared as reproducible recipes. Interactive image processing with Image Stack Processing quantitatively measures microanatomy from thin section paleohistology. Extensions to Avizo Software enable quick tetra meshing for FEA and sophisticated DVC for biomechanics. Surfaces extracted from CT data can be viewed, edited, and optimized for 3D printing or digital sharing. Overall, Avizo Software provides a complete digital suite for these increasingly digital sciences. Read more

Fibrous materials

Avizo Software for Fiber Analysis

3D visualization and analysis of fibrous materials with Avizo Software.

Quickly and accurately understand your fibrous materials

Fibrous materials, such as carbon or glass fiber (CFRP, GFRP), fabric (multi-layer composites), fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC), and organic fibers are used in a wide range of applications and industries (automotive, aerospace, etc.). Imaging techniques such as microCT or SEM allow for analysis of those materials; for example, to detect manufacturing imperfections or to quantify microstructures to obtain insights on mechanical properties (strength, stiffness, etc.).

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software is an all-in-one image analysis platform that allows the visualization, processing, and quantification of fibrous materials. Avizo Software enables the detection of manufacturing process damage such as matrix cracking, fiber/matrix debonding, or fiber breakage. Imperfections in the material can be quantified locally (voids, cracks) or globally (cross-sectional distortions or misalignments). Read more

Porous materials

Avizo Software for Advanced Porous Materials

Characterization and analysis of porosity and pore structures using 3D visualization and analysis software.

Quickly and accurately understand your porous materials

Porosity is present in many materials. Whether it is a defect or a feature, its quantification is critical. For example, understanding the various types of porosity defects can inform adjustments in the manufacturing process in order to improve the material’s properties. In a material that is porous by design, the expected level of porosity can be adapted through conception changes. Imaging techniques such as microCT, FIB-SEM, SEM, and TEM allow for analysis of porous materials to quantify micro pores, sponge-type voids, large macro-voids, inclusions, and so forth.

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software is an all-in-one image analysis platform that allows for the visualization, processing, and quantification of porous materials. Avizo Software enables the detection and classification of various types of porosity (for example, connected vs isolated; macro pores vs micro pores), even on images with complex artifacts (for example, pore back effect in FIB-SEM). Many porosity properties and statistics can be calculated, such as volume fraction, largest ball fitting through a given pore, pore size distribution, pore throat size distribution, pore orientation, shape factor, and more. Porosity can be turned into a model (Pore Network Model), allowing for rapid understanding and exploration of the pore space, that features spheres or ellipsoids-and-sticks type visualization with property mapping. Avizo Software also allows the direct calculation of the absolute permeability of the material from the segmented pore space. Read more