Characterisation of fragments produced by the comminution of metals especially considering the fragment shape

During the comminution of metals, intensive deformation of the material takes place resulting in wide fragment size distributions and a large range of fragment shapes and states of compactness. Thus, the characterisation of the products is a very demanding task. In this paper, the most common methods for the determination of characteristics describing the results of the comminution as well as of the deformation are explained.