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Crack Propagation Velocity Determination by High-speed Camera Image Sequence Processing

Version 1 : Received: 23 September 2020 / Approved: 24 September 2020 / Online: 24 September 2020 (12:19:52 CEST)

How to cite: Liebold, F.; A. Heravi, A.; Mosig, O.; Curbach, M.; Mechtcherine, V.; Maas, H. Crack Propagation Velocity Determination by High-speed Camera Image Sequence Processing. Preprints 2020, 2020090583. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0583.v1 Liebold, F.; A. Heravi, A.; Mosig, O.; Curbach, M.; Mechtcherine, V.; Maas, H. Crack Propagation Velocity Determination by High-speed Camera Image Sequence Processing. Preprints 2020, 2020090583. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0583.v1

Abstract

The determination of crack propagation velocities can provide valuable information for a better understanding of damage processes of concrete. The spatio-temporal analysis of crack patterns developing at a speed of several hundred meters per second is a rather challenging task. In the paper, a photogrammetric procedure for the determination of crack propagation velocities in concrete specimens using high-speed camera image sequences is presented. A cascaded image sequence processing which starts with the computation of displacement vector fields for a dense pattern of points on the specimen’s surface between consecutive time steps of the image sequence chain has been developed. These surface points are triangulated into a mesh, and as representations of cracks, discontinuities in the displacement vector fields are found by a deformation analysis applied to all triangles of the mesh. Connected components of the deformed triangles are computed using region-growing techniques. Then, the crack tips are determined using principal component analysis. The tips are tracked in the image sequence and the velocities between the time stamps of the images are derived. A major advantage of this method as compared to established techniques is in the fact of its allowing for spatio-temporally resolved, full-field measurements rather than point-wise measurements and that information on crack width can be obtained simultaneously. To validate the experimentation, the authors processed image sequences of tests on four compact-tension specimens performed on a split-Hopkinson tension bar. The images were taken by a high-speed camera at a frame rate of 160,000 images per second. By applying to these datasets the image sequence processing procedure as developed, crack propagation velocities of about 800 m/s were determined with a precision in the order of 50 m/s.

Keywords

high-speed camera; crack propagation velocity; image sequence analysis; crack analysis; material testing; deformation measurement

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems

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