Digital Image Technology – Based Simulation for Internal Components and Mechanical Behavior of Asphalt Concrete

Abstract:

Digital image technology – based computer aided design for asphalt concrete is a new direction of asphalt pavement research. This paper focuses on description of research progress achieved by the author’s research institute in the direction, mainly including two-dimensional digital image technology – based research in the internal structure and volume of asphalt concrete, industrial CT-based identification of different substances in the asphalt concrete and acquisition of morphological characteristics for coarse aggregate and three-dimensional digital image technology – based virtual reconstruction of asphalt concrete and simple mechanical behavior simulation.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 950)
• Pages: 63-68
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.950.63
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Bin Hu*, Xiao Ning Zhang
• Keywords: Asphalt Concrete, Industrial CT, Internal Structure, Mechanical Simulation, Research Progress, Three Dimensional Reconstruction

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