• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.1897-1902
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• 2008

In computer vision analysis of detecting concrete slab surface cracks, there are many difficulties to overcome. Target images often have defamations due to the light condition and other external environment. Another difficulties in detecting concrete crack image is that there is no clear distinction in intensity between the crack and the surface since the surface is often irregular. In this paper, we apply ART2 based quantization in order to classify target concrete slab surface images into several areas with respect to the light intensity. From those quantized areas, we investigate the distribution of real cracks and noises. Then, we extract candidate crack areas after applying noise removal process to areas which have be th oracle and noises. Finally, crack areas are recognized by using morphological features of cracks from such candidate areas. In experiment with real world concrete slab structure images, our algorithm has advantage in recognizing accuracy of cracks to other algorithms especially in relatively brighter areas of concrete surface.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.399-405
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• 2008

콘크리트 슬래브 표면의 영상처리 목적은 구조물의 균열발생을 최소화하고 발생한 균열에 대해서 지속적인 기록 관리로 균열의 진행 상태를 분석하여 보수시기 및 보수공법 적용의 합리적 운영체계를 수립하고자 하는 것이다. 일반적으로 콘크리트에서의 균열은 육안으로 분간할 수 있을 정도로 큰 반면 프리스트레스트 콘크리트의 균열은 기기를 사용하여야 측정, 분별할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 균열의 명함도와 인접한 표면의 명함도 차이를 이용하여 균열과 잡음을 분리한다. 그리고 균열과 잡음 영역에서 형태학적인 정보를 이용하여 잡음 영역만을 제거한다. 잡음 영역이 제거된 균열 영역에서도 미세한 잡음이 존재하므로 균열 영역을 평활화를 한 후, 미세 잡음을 하나의 객체로 인식하여 제거하고 끊어진 영역의 균열을 미디언 필터를 이용하여 균열을 연결한다. 그리고 제안된 방법으로 추출된 균열을 원본 영상에 적용하여 최종적으로 균열만을 검출한다. 검출된 균열에서 균열의 특정부분을 선택하고 선택되어진 균열 영상을 대상으로 균열의 길이, 방향, 폭을 순차적으로 분석한다. 실제 균열 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 균열이 비교적 정확히 검출되었고 균열 검사기가 한번에 측정할 때에 비해 비교적 빠르고 적은 노력으로 측정할 수 있는 것을 확인하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.921-927
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• 1989

One of the most important problems in recent life prediction is to introduce the degradation effects into life prediction procedure. In the present paper, the effect of the material degradation on the fatigue surface crack growth and fatigue life prediction in a 2 1/4 Cr-1Mo steel were investigated. The 2 1/4 Cr-1Mo steel has been used in a plant having operated for over 60000hours and subjected to material degradation due to temper-embitterment. A Monte-Carlo simulation was made on the basis of the data obtained in the experiment in order to determine the P-S-N diagrams of surface crack growth for the degraded and recovered steels.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1990-2001
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• 1991

The fatigue life and crack penetration behavior of high strength steel have been studied in detail both experimentally and analytically. The fatigue crack shape of a smooth specimen is almost semicircular, while a specimen with stress concentration becomes semielliptical according to stress concentration shape. The aspect ratio of smooth specimens calculated using the Newman-Raju's formular is smaller than the value obtained from the experiment. On the other hand, the aspect ratio of the stress concentration specimen shows a good agreement with experimental results. It is found that the crack growth behavior on the back surface after the penetration is unique and can be divided into three stages ; rapid growth region, constant growth region and acceleration growth region. By using the K value suggested in this study, the particular crack growth behavior and crack shape can be estimated quantitatively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.1 s.9
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• pp.49-54
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• 2000

The DCPD(Direct Current Potential Drop) method has been adopted for the crack measurement of a structure. The objective of this paper is to develop a multi-channel DCPD system not only for detecting crack depth, but also for determining the accurate shape of the surface crack. For this purpose, an exclusive software was also developed. In order to verify the developed DCPD system it was initially tested on a CT specimen, and subsequently was applied to a wide plate specimen. The developed multi-channel DCPD system was proven to provide an efficient and accurate measurement of a surface crack during the crack growth.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1592-1602
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• 1990

Mixed mode surface crack in finite-width plate subjected to uniform tension and bending has been analyzed in 3-D problem by using boundary element method. The calculations were carried out for the surface crack angles(.a/pha.) of 0.deg., 15.deg., 30.deg., 45.deg., 60.deg., and 75.deg., and for the aspect ratio(a/c) of 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 1.0 to get stress intensity factors at the boundary points of the surface crack. For the aspect ratio of 1.0 and the surface crack angles, finite element method was used to check the results in this study. Comparison of the results from both methods showed good agreement.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1575-1581
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• 2005

Recently, further study is being done on the affect of crack on concrete structure and many people have made every endeavor not to leave it unsettled but to minimize it by repair works. In this paper we propose the image processing method that do not remain manual but automatically process the length, the direction and e width of cracks on concrete surface. First, we calibrate light's affect from image by using closing operation, one of morphology methods that can extract the feature of oracle and we extract the edge of crack image by sobel mask. After it, crack image is binarized by iteration binarization. And we extract the edge of cracks using noise elimination method that use an average of adjacent pixels by 3${\times}$3 mask and Glassfire Labeling algorithm. on, in this paper we propose an image processing method which can automatically measure the length, the direction and the width of cracks using the extracted edges of cracks. The results of experiment showed that the proposed method works better on the extraction of concrete cracks. Also our method showed the possibility that inspector's decision is unnecessary.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.238-244
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• 2008

The west stone pagoda of Gameunsa temple site(National Treasure No. 112) has been seriously damaged by surface weathering, and conservation treatment is needed. In the second story body stone, vertical cracks developed parallel to the main compressional axis. The vertical cracks seem to grow much more with the compression. Chemical and biological weathering along the vertical cracks could have enhanced the crack growth. In the third story capstone, the surface cracks strike toward NE and NW directions, which are intersecting each other. In the eastern and southern parts of the third story capstone, lots of vertical cracks develop along the lines from the axial center to outer rim, whereas horizontal cracks are easily observed at the outer rim of the capstone. On the other hand, a few horizontal cracks develop in the western and northern parts of the third story capstone. This fact indicates that the compression along the vertical axis is not uniform in direction. The west stone pagoda leans toward the east and the south, so it is considered that compression by deviatoric stress prevailed at these directions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.346-351
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• 2006

본 논문은 콘크리트 표면 균열 영상에서 균열의 특징을 추출하기 위해, 영상 처리 기법을 적용하여 균열의 특징(길이, 폭, 방향)을 자동으로 추출 및 처리 할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 적용된 영상 처리 기법으로는 균열 영상의 빛을 보정하기 위하여 모폴로지 기법인 채움(Closing)기법을 적용한다. 균열의 경계를 명확히 추출하기 위하여 고주파 강화 필터링을 적용한 후, 8가지 색상(검정, 빨강, 파랑, 초록, 노랑, 자주, 주황, 하늘)으로 명암 값을 분류하고 그 중 빈도수가 가장 높은 색상을 가진 명암 값을 제거한 후에 추출한 영상을 이진화한다. 이진화된 영상에서 콘크리트 표면 균열의 실거리 측정을 위한 임의의 선을 제거하기 위하여 위치 히스토그램을 적용하여 임의의 선을 제거한다. 임의의 선이 제거된 균열 영상에서 $5\times5$ 마스크를 적용하여 균열을 확대시키고, 3차례에 걸쳐 잡음 제거연산을 수행하여 균열의 후보 영역을 선택한 후, 후보 영역으로부터 특정 균열들을 추출한다. 추출된 특정 균열을 모폴로지 기법인 제거(Opening) 연산을 수행하여 균열의 특징이 일정하게 유지되게 하고 미세하게 끊어진 부분을 보정하여 균열의 특징(길이, 방향, 폭)을 측정한다. 실제 콘크리트 표면 균열영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 특정 균열이 효율적으로 추출되었고, 특정 균열의 길이, 방향, 폭의 등이 정확히 추출 및 계산되었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.125-134
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• 1989

Pseudo-random load waves for fatigue testing were generated by personal computer simulation and preliminary study was performed on the growth behavior of surface fatigue crack under random ladings. The closure behavior and growth rates of surface fatigue crack were significantly influenced by the characteristics of random waves. It was also found that the growth rates of surface fatigue crack under random loadings could not be always described by the effective stress intensity factor based on the concept of crack closure.