Digital analysis of heterogeneous materials

A computer-implemented method for characterization of a heterogeneous material comprising distributed constituents, distributed particle-shaped constituents, dispersed within a continuous phase of condensed matter, comprising the steps of:

• a) providing or selecting a sample of the heterogeneous material to be analyzed;
• b) taking at least one digital image of the sample with a camera of a computer device, a mobile computer device, or a camera connected to a computer device, a mobile device and/or with the computer device read in at least one digital image that was pre-recorded with a standalone camera;
• c) performing an image analysis, an imaging particle analysis, of the at least one digital image for extracting one or more of the following properties:
• a size parameter, a particle size parameter, a shape parameter, a particle shape parameter, a spatial distribution, an orientation parameter, a particle orientation parameter, a surface parameter, a particle surface parameter, a roughness parameter, particle roughness parameter, a packing density, a segregation parameter, a color, and/or an area share of the constituents, the particle-shaped constituents, identified by the image analysis in the at least one digital image;
• and/or
• an area share of the continuous phase identified by the image analysis in the at least one digital image;
• d) making available the one or more of the properties extracted in step c) via a user interface, via a machine interface and/or on a data storage medium.