Visual tracking of plate compactor trajectories and soil compaction through metamaterial-inspired approach

IF 1.9 4区工程技术 Q3 MECHANICS Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI:10.1007/s00161-025-01374-z

A. Kwaśniewski, S. Bak, P. Ciężowski, L. Knap, J. Maciejewski, M. Bialas, M. Spagnuolo

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Abstract

The compaction process is often carried out in relation to transportation infrastructure. The process is complex since the soil is a heterogeneous environment. Adequate compaction is necessary to ensure the homogeneity and durability of the pavement. This paper presents a novel visual method for assessing soil compaction. A slow-motion camera (optical sensor) and tracking markers placed on the compaction plate, were used to determine the trajectory of the compactor’s movement. Based on this and the proposed energy criterion, it is possible to observe changes in soil compaction up to the desired level. Quality control of soil compaction was experimentally compared to the standard method. The experiments show that the visual method gives similar results to the standard one. The proposed innovative visual method allows for developing and optimizing the machine’s workload efficiency and enables online compaction level monitoring.

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Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 物理-力学

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5.30

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15.40%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： This interdisciplinary journal provides a forum for presenting new ideas in continuum and quasi-continuum modeling of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom and sufficient complexity to require thermodynamic closure. Major emphasis is placed on papers attempting to bridge the gap between discrete and continuum approaches as well as micro- and macro-scales, by means of homogenization, statistical averaging and other mathematical tools aimed at the judicial elimination of small time and length scales. The journal is particularly interested in contributions focusing on a simultaneous description of complex systems at several disparate scales. Papers presenting and explaining new experimental findings are highly encouraged. The journal welcomes numerical studies aimed at understanding the physical nature of the phenomena. Potential subjects range from boiling and turbulence to plasticity and earthquakes. Studies of fluids and solids with nonlinear and non-local interactions, multiple fields and multi-scale responses, nontrivial dissipative properties and complex dynamics are expected to have a strong presence in the pages of the journal. An incomplete list of featured topics includes: active solids and liquids, nano-scale effects and molecular structure of materials, singularities in fluid and solid mechanics, polymers, elastomers and liquid crystals, rheology, cavitation and fracture, hysteresis and friction, mechanics of solid and liquid phase transformations, composite, porous and granular media, scaling in statics and dynamics, large scale processes and geomechanics, stochastic aspects of mechanics. The journal would also like to attract papers addressing the very foundations of thermodynamics and kinetics of continuum processes. Of special interest are contributions to the emerging areas of biophysics and biomechanics of cells, bones and tissues leading to new continuum and thermodynamical models.