A Review of Detection Technologies for Underwater Cracks on Concrete Dam Surfaces
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Abstract
Cracks seriously endanger the safe and stable operation of dams. It is important to detect surface cracks in a timely and accurate manner to ensure the safety and serviceability of a dam. The above-water crack detection technology of dams has been widely studied, but due to the complex underwater environment, above-water crack detection technology on dam surfaces cannot be directly applied to underwater crack detection. To adapt to the underwater detection environment and improve the efficiency and accuracy of underwater crack detection, many methods have been proposed for underwater crack detection, including sensor detection and image detection. This paper presents a systematic overview of the development and application practices of existing underwater crack detection technologies for concrete dams, focusing on methods that use underwater robots as underwater mobile carriers to acquire images that are combined with digital image processing algorithms to identify, locate, and quantify underwater cracks in dams. This method has been widely used for underwater crack detection on dam surfaces with the advantages of being non-contact, non-destructive, having high efficiency, and wide applicability. Finally, this paper looks further forward to the development trends and research challenges of detection technologies for underwater cracks on concrete dam surfaces, which will help researchers to complete further studies on underwater crack detection.
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OpenAlex topics: Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring · Dam Engineering and Safety · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
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Affiliations
School of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Funding
National Key R & D Program of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities
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