Real-time concrete damage visual assessment for first responders

Building a Sustainable Future - Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1204-1213

  Zhu, Zhenhua ^a   Brilakis, Ioannis ^a   Parra Montesinos, Gustavo ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Column recognition; Concrete columns; Damage detection; Damage state estimation; First responders; Structural collapse

Indexed keywords

COLUMN RECOGNITION; CONCRETE COLUMNS; DAMAGE STATE ESTIMATION; FIRST RESPONDERS; STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BUILDING MATERIALS; CASE BASED REASONING; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STATE ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 69949084620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41020(339)122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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