Novel Approach to Pavement Cracking Detection Based on Fuzzy Set Theory

• Published in: Journal of computing in civil engineering Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 270 - 280
• Main Authors: Cheng, H. D, Chen, Jim-Rong, Glazier, Chris, Hu, Y. G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Reston, VA American Society of Civil Engineers 01.10.1999
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Building failures (cracks, physical changes, etc.); Buildings. Public works; Computation methods. Tables. Charts; Durability. Pathology. Repairing. Maintenance; Exact sciences and technology; Road construction. Pavements. Maintenance; Structural analysis. Stresses; TECHNICAL PAPERS; Transportation infrastructure; Experimental test; Image processing; Brightness; Pavement; Road construction; Cracking; Multivariate analysis; Fuzzy set; Luminous intensity; Image analysis; Image projection; Numerical analysis; Fuzzy algorithm; Failure analysis

Conventional visual and manual pavement cracking analysis approaches are very costly, time-consuming, dangerous, labor-intensive, and subjective. They possess various drawbacks such as having a high degree of variability, being unable to provide meaningful quantitative information, and almost always...