Three-dimensional characterization of the permeability of W-Cu composites using a new "TriBeam" technique

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Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation through DMR-1121053. We also would like to thank Professor Marc De Graef (CMU) for his assistance with image segmentation of the datasets (EM/MPM software), David Rowenhorst for IDL-based 3-D reconstruction software, Will Lenthe for discussion on statistical analysis, and the Office of Naval Research ONR-DURIP Grant N000141010783 for support of the development of the TriBeam system. We would also like to thank the Defence Materials Technology Centre for the Ph.D. scholarships for P.M. and M.W. as well as additional funding. We also greatly appreciate the useful discussions with Trevor R. Finlayson, and Jamie Whiteford (BAE Systems) for providing the W-Cu samples.