RESEARCH ARTICLE
Concrete Crack Width Detecting System for Android Platform
Chen Shuang-rui*, Shi Zheng*, Yan Quan-sheng*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 846
Last Page: 851
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-9-846
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501509010846
Article History:
Received Date: 26/5/2015Revision Received Date: 14/7/2015
Acceptance Date: 10/8/2015
Electronic publication date: 13/10/2015
Collection year: 2015
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
In order to measure crack width accurately and automatically, an Android-based Automatic Crack Width Measuring System (ACWMS) has been developed, taking advantage of the high portability of Android devices. After capturing the image using mobile phone camera, the image is processed by image processing techniques, including graying, binaryzation, denoising and edge recognition. A specified algorithm is executed to calculate the crack width according to the provided edge data. Measurements has been done to each of the 10 cracks in the same concrete beam, using Samsung Galaxy S3 mobile phone and WYSX-40X Crack detector, respectively. Test result shows that the maximum crack width accuracy reaches 95.26%, which satisfies the construction needs. Therefore, this system can greatly improve the efficiency and accuracy during crack width measurement.