• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.173-175
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 콘크리트 표면에 발생한 균열의 미세한 부분까지 효과적으로 검출 할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 균열 검출 방법은 콘크리트 영상의 RGB값을 퍼지 기법에 적용하여 후보 균열 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 후보 균열 영역에서 밀도와 명암도를 이용하여 효과적으로 세부적인 잡음까지 제거한 후, 최종으로 균열 영역을 검출한다. 실제 콘크리트 표면의 균열 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 방법보다 균열의 검출 성능이 개선되었음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.379-385
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• 2008

콘크리트 건물의 보수 작업은 표면에 발생하는 균열을 정확하게 계측함으로써 비용적인 측면과 안전성이 결정된다. 하지만 표면에 발생한 균열은 대부분 점검자에 의해 수작업으로 계측되기 때문에 시간적 측면에서 비효율적이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 콘크리트 슬래브 표면에 발생한 균열의 밝기와 밀도 그리고 면적 특징을 이용한 균열 검출 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 균열 검출 방법은 콘크리트 슬래브 표면의 명암도와 위치 정보를 ART2 기반 양자화에 적용한 후, 균열과 인접한 배경간의 명암도 차이를 이용하여 균열과 인접한 배경을 분리한다. 균열과 인접한 배경이 분리된 영상에서 형태학적인 정보를 이용하여 세부적인 잡음을 제거한 후에 최종적으로 균열 영역을 검출한다. 실제 콘크리트 균열 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 다양한 콘크리트 균열 영상에서 기존의 방법보다 균열 검출 성능이 개선되었음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.52-59
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• 2003

Tests of concrete CLWL-DCB specimens had been conducted with displacement-controlled dynamic loading. The crack velocities for 381mm crack extension were 0.80 mm/sec ~ 215m/sec. The external work and the kinetic and strain energies were derived from the measured external load and load-point displacement. The fracture resistance of a running crack was calculated from the fitted curves of the fracture energy required for the tests. The standard error of the fracture energy was less than 3.2%. The increasing rate of the fracture resistance for 28 mm initial crack extension or micro-cracking was relatively small, and then the slope of the fracture resistance increased to the maximum value at 90∼145 mm crack extension depending on crack velocity. The maximum fracture resistance remained for 185 mm crack extension, and then the faster crack velocity showed the faster decreasing rate of the maximum fracture resistance. The maximum fracture resistance increased proportionally to the logarithm of the crack velocity from 142 N/m to 217 N/m when the crack velocity was faster than 0.273 m/sec. The maximum fracture resistance of the fastest tests was similar to the average fracture energy density of 215 N/m. To measure the fracture resistance of concrete, the stable crack extension should be larger than 90∼145 mm depending on crack velocity.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.6 no.2 s.20
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• pp.47-59
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• 2004

The temperature variation of concrete pavement at early-age significantly affects the initiation and propagation of its early-age cracks. This implies that the measurement and analysis of early age temperature trend are necessary to examine the causes of early age cracks in the concrete pavement. In this study, it is investigated how the early age temperature trend in concrete pavement affects the random crack initiation and behaviors of saw-cut joints using the actual construction site which is located at the KHC test road. During 72 hours after placing the concrete pavement, the ambient air temperature and temperatures at the top, middle, and bottom in concrete pavement were measured and the random crack initiation in concrete slabs and early age behaviors in the joints were surveyed. The investigation results indicate that the first random crack was initiated at one of the slabs placed in the early morning which have higher temperature changes during early 72 hours. The movement of slab was influenced by the early-age crack in the joint. It suggested that the different occurrence time of the cracks in the joint had an influence on the behavior of the cracks. Besides, the slab constructed In the morning had higher possibility of crack initiation than that in the afternoon. The rarely occurred cracks had bigger gap than other cracks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.173-182
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• 2007

Cracks in concrete structures should be measured to periodically assess potential problems in durability and serviceability. Conventional crack measurement systems depend on visual inspections and manual measurements of the crack features such as width, length, and direction using microscope and crack gage. However, conventional methods take long time as well as manpower, and lack quantitative objectivity resulted by inspectors. In this study, an evaluation technique for concrete surface cracks is developed using image processing and artificial neural network. Developed technique consists of three major parts: (1) crack detection (2) crack analysis and (3) pattern recognition. To examine validity of the technique developed in this study, crack analyzing tests were performed on the images obtained from various types of concrete surface cracks. The test results revealed that the system is highly effective in automatically analyzing concrete surface cracks in terms of features and patterns of cracks.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.589-597
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• 2010

Steel structures have a higher probability of being damaged by fatigue than by other causes of deterioration. As such, their maintenance to prevent fatigue damage is essential to sustain their safety and performance during their service period. In their maintenance, the current state of their fatigue cracks must be assessed to determine appropriate reinforcement methods and the suitable time intervals of periodic inspections when fatigue cracks are detected. Determining the crack growth rate is a successful method of predicting fractures, but it requires technical knowledge on fracture mechanics and experience in numerical methods and software for finite element analysis. In this study, a fatigue crack growth test on through-thickness cracked steel plates was conducted to assess the crack growth rate without superior technical knowledge and experience. The relationship between the Crack Opening Displacement (COD) and the crack growth rate was found in relatively long fatigue cracks.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.135-145
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• 1988

This study deals with the prediction of crack propagation in concrete mortar subjected to static and dynamic load. Total 54 CLWL-DCB(Crack-line-loaded-double-cantilever beam) concrete mortar specimens were tested to measure crack growth using ASTM 561-80. Main variables were sand to cement ratio and water to cement ratio. The resulting load(P)-COD(Crack Opening Displacement; $2V_1$) curves and COD-CTOD (Crack Tip Opening Displacement; $2V_2$) curves were analyzed to calculate effective crack length and physical crack length by way of ASTM 561-80 proposed. Replica crack length were also obtained directly during the test. The differences in crack propagation between under static load and under dynamic load were investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.15-22
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• 2003

The fatigue crack growth model is derived and the retardation model is proposed. The fatigue crack growth model considers the residual plastic stretch on the crack surface which results from the plastic deformation at the tip of fatigue crack. The fatigue crack growth rate is calculated by using the cumulative fatigue damage and plastic strain energy in the material elements at the crack tip. This model gives the crack growth rate in reasonable agreement with test data for aluminum alloy AL6061-T651 and 17-4PH casting steel. The fatigue crack growth retardation model is based on the residual plastic stretch produced from a tensile overload which reduced the plastic strain range of the following load cycles. A strip-yield model of a crack tip plasticity is used for the calculation of a plastic zone size. The proposed retardation model characterized the observed features and delayed retardation of the fatigue crack growth under tensile overload.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.359-366
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• 2021

In this study, It was developed an monitoring cracks system based on image processing techniques in order to measure cracks, which are major damages in concrete, and to convert them into a database. The crack monitoring system consists of crack image captured equipment and a crack detection and analysis software. This system provides objective and quantitative data by replacing the conventional visual inspection. The crack detection algorithm w as verified through an indoor test using virtual cracks, and the amount of crack detection and crack width change was monitored by applying it to the self-healing repair mortar construction site. In the case of the crack width detected through image analysis, the maximum difference from the actual crack width was 0.0334mm. It was possible to detect microcracks of 0.1mm or less, and the effect of crack healing over time of the self-healing repair mortar was confirmed trough the field test.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.1-11
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• 1987

라멜라 균열은 복잡한 현상이며 1960년대부터 연구가 되어 왔지만 국내에서는 그 중요성을 인정하면서도 연구가 되지 않았기 때문에 본 해설에서는 라멜라 균열에 대한 전반적인 이해를 돕기 위해, 라멜라 균열에 미치는 인자 및 비금속개재물, 형성기조, 개시온도 및 시간 그리고 방지책과 재료의 라멜라 균열에 대한 민감성을 평가하는 시험 방법과 용접구조물에서 라멜라 균열의 중요성 등을 기술하고저 한다.