@inproceedings{d7b5f2fa9b8c4654bbc4586037f949cc,
title = "An image processing approach to determination of steel fibers orientation in reinforced concrete",
abstract = "The paper presents a preliminary study aimed to automatically determine the position and orientation of steel fibers in fiber-reinforced concrete. This is required for assessment of the relation between the methods of forming and resulting concentration, position and orientation of steel fibers. Concrete beams with various types of fibers and method of forming were scanned using Computed Tomography and the resulting volumetric images were subjected to image segmentation. From the obtained label map the position and orientation in 3D of each steel fiber were calculated. This enabled generating 4D histograms visualizing in compact form the overall orientation of the fibers. Statistical analysis showed that the orientation of the fibers exhibit exponential distribution.",
keywords = "Computed Tomography, image processing, steel fiber reinforced concrete",
author = "Marcin Rudzki and Monika Bugdol and Tomasz Ponikiewski",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-31196-3\_15",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642311956",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "143--150",
booktitle = "Information Technologies in Biomedicine - Third International Conference, ITIB 2012, Proceedings",
note = "3rd International Conference on Information Technologies in Biomedicine, ITIB 2012 ; Conference date: 11-06-2012 Through 13-06-2012",
}