Image analysis of hardened concrete : performance enhancement of the Automated Concrete Evaluation System (ACES).

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• Alternative Title:
  Performance enhancement of the Automated Concrete Evaluation System (ACES).
• Creators:
  Baumgart, Chri ; Blair, Ray ; Linder, Kim
• Corporate Creators:
  Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Concrete Evaluation Image Analysis Missouri
• Publication/ Report Number:
  OR 07-004
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Missouri. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Since 2001, the Missouri Department of Transportation and National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant,
  
  operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, have collaborated on three CRADA’s (Cooperative
  
  Research and Development Agreements) to develop a fully automated machine vision system to perform the analysis of
  
  the air void structure of concrete according to the ASTM linear traverse method. The first two CRADA’s were focused on
  
  the development of a prototype system, designated ACES, for Automated Concrete Evaluation System. This prototype
  
  included a computer controlled two-dimensional stage and sample holder, a vision system consisting of a microscope, a
  
  digital black-and-white camera and analog frame grabber, a personal computer, and customized software to perform the
  
  image acquisition, analysis, and reporting. Initial evaluations of the accuracy of the ACE system relative to experienced
  
  human operators at MoDOT were quite positive. However, ongoing validations to baseline performance of the software
  
  against actual manually derived results provided data indicating that additional software developments were required to
  
  ensure that the results provided by the ACE System are consistent with those obtained manually. As a result, a third
  
  CRADA was initiated to improve the performance of the ACE system to consistently apply the ASTM linear traverse
  
  method and to improve the accuracy of the system relative to the results obtained by human experts.
  
  In 2003, MODOT expanded the scope of this effort by initiating and leading a national, pooled fund effort under
  
  sponsorship by the Federal Highway Administration. This pooled fund effort included 13 state transportation departments
  
  (Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Virginia, and
  
  Wisconsin).
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DE-ACO4-01AL66850
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b35419f88553ea8a7a6a7dbb718c27aa7f057b59c53c00e4d32e828fe228da50
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27686/dot_27686_DS1.pdf
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