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Dynamic Image Analysis (DIA) has evolved in the past two decades as a powerful tool for measuring particle sizes and shapes. This chapter traces the development from a geotechnical perspective within the context of the evolving measurement paradigm where imaging is playing an increasingly important role. The book demonstrates the efficacy of DIA for obtaining particle sizes and shapes of large specimens of sand, having a variety of granulometries. In the short term the work will allow engineers to utilize DIA for routine statistical particle granulometry analyses. In the long term it is expected that the voluminous data offered by DIA will provide a foundation for training artificial intelligence models that can be used for automatic particle identification and classification.
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Iskander, M., Li, L. (2024). Introduction. In: Dynamic Image Analysis of Granular Materials. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47534-4_1
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