题名: |
DETERMINATION OF INTERNAL DEFORMATION FIELD IN ASPHALT CORES USING X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY. |
作者: |
Synolakis-CE; Zhou-Z; Leahy-RM |
关键词: |
ASPHALTS-; CORES-; INTERNAL-DISPLACEMENT-FIELDS; DEFORMATION-; THREE-DIMENSIONAL; X-RAY-COMPUTER-TOMOGRAPHY |
摘要: |
Although existing nondestructive evaluation methods and transducers provide useful quantitative information on composite materials, they measure only macroscopic deformations and, often, only after the strain has exceeded a certain predetermined threshold. It is well established, however, that maintenance intervention is more effective if applied early in the deformation process. A new method for computing the microscopic internal displacement fields associated with permanent deformations of three-dimensional asphalt-aggregate cores with complex internal structure and satisfying the small gradient approximation of continuum mechanics is presented. The displacement fields are computed from a sequence of three-dimensional X-ray computed tomography images, obtained using a new imaging protocol developed specifically for mass-fraction and mix-density estimates of composite cores. By assuming that the image intensity of the tomographic images represents a certain conserved property that is incompressible, a constrained nonlinear regression model for motion estimation is developed. Successive linear approximation is then employed and each linear subsidiary problem is solved using variational calculus. The resulting Euler-Lagrange equations are approximated and solved using finite differencing methods and a conjugate gradient algorithm in a multiresolution framework. The method is validated using pairs of synthetic images of plane shear flow. The three-dimensional displacement field in the interior of a cylindrical asphalt/aggregate core loaded to a state of permanent deformation is calculated using this method. |
总页数: |
Transportation Research Record. 1996. (1526) pp135-141 (5 Fig., 17 Ref.) |
报告类型: |
科技报告 |