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An On-site Evaluation Method for Corrosion Degradation of In-service Cable Wires by Image Histogram Matching
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel non-destructive method by image histogram matching to evaluate the corrosion degradation of cable wires in service quantitatively. Artificial accelerated salt spray test is adopted to simulate the corrosion environment, and adequate RGB images are taken by a consumer-grade camera to cover the whole information of corroded surface for each specimen under different corrosion periods. Histogram distribution analysis is applied to study the concentrated modes of RGB images, and joint Gaussian distribution is fitted to capture location parameters. Timevariant models of the location parameters are regressed and then the mechanical properties are learnt by tensile and fatigue tests. Once the features of RGB corrosion images of steel wires are matched to the proposed time-variant models, the corresponding corrosion degree and mechanical properties can be estimated. The proposed method is meaningful for the on-site evaluation of cable wires in service with no need to carry on corrosion and mechanical degradation tests after replacing cables.
DOI
10.12783/shm2017/13864
10.12783/shm2017/13864
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