Automatically extracting surfaces of reinforced concrete bridges from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds

Three-dimensional (3D) geometric bridge models play an important role in bridge inspection, assessment, and management. Laser scanning nowadays offers a cost-efficient method to capture dense, accurate 3D topographic data of surfaces of the bridge. However, given the typical complexity of bridges, current workflows using commercial software...

Extracting Bridge Components from a Laser Scanning Point Cloud

A three-dimensional (3D) geometric model of a bridge plays an important role in inspection, assessment and management of the bridge. As most bridges were built after the second world war, 3D bridge models are rarely available. A recent development in laser scanning offers a cost-efficient method to capture dense, accurate 3D topographic data...

On the accuracy of partially averaged Navier–Stokes resolution estimates

Partially Averaged Navier–Stokes computations can employ three different approaches for specifying the ratio of modelled-to-total turbulence kinetic energy f_k. Use can be made of either a constant, a spatially- or a spatially- and temporally-varying value. This work compares different estimates for f_k found in literature...

Bridged crack approach to model materials self-healing

The subject of this paper is the mathematical modelling of the crack self-healing process. For self-healing modeling of cracked structures the bridged crack approach is used. In the frames of this approach is assumed: 1) there is a crack in a structure after service loading; 2) there are bonds between surfaces of a crack (which are induced by a...

Multi-perspective modelling of complex phenomena

This conceptual paper discusses the limitations of a single-perspective hierarchical approach to modelling and proposes multi-perspective modelling as a way to overcome them. As it turns out, multi-perspective modelling is primarily a new methodology, using existing modelling techniques but extending the modelling hierarchy with a new...