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Concrete Crack Detection from Video Footage for Structural Health Monitoring

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European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2020)

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Non-destructive imaging is largely encouraged as a preliminary investigation for damage identification on concrete structural surfaces. Cracks are basic signatures for any structure to initiate the damage. As the whole world is currently connected with lot of cameras all around for various purposes either it be for traffic studies, accident analysis, thefts, natural or human disasters. Alternatively, the same video frames obtained from cameras located in or on the structure can be analysed even for the structural health monitoring. This study aims at identifying the cracks from images mined out of the video frames apart from the crack propagation and length of the crack. Convolution Neural Network is used to train over the images from the video captured during the laboratory compressive strength experiment on a concrete cube to examine and estimate the crack properties. This methodology can be extended to the real-life scenario to alert the damages caused in the structures.

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  1. Ecole Centrale College of Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India

    Sushmita Kadarla, Sree Keerthe Beeram, Prafulla Kalapatapu & Venkata Dilip Kumar Pasupuleti

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Kadarla, S., Beeram, S.K., Kalapatapu, P., Pasupuleti, V.D.K. (2021). Concrete Crack Detection from Video Footage for Structural Health Monitoring. In: Rizzo, P., Milazzo, A. (eds) European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. EWSHM 2020. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64594-6_9

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