Crack detection of reinforced concrete bridge using video image

With the digital image technology,a crack detection method of reinforced concrete bridge was studied for the performance assessment.The effects including the image gray level,pixel rate,noise filter,and edge detection were analyzed considering cracks qualities.A computer program was developed by visual C＋＋6.0 programming language to detect the cracks,which was tested by 15 cases of bridge video images.The results indicate that the relative error is within 6％ for cracks larger than 0.3 mm cracks and it is less than 10％ for crack width between 0.2 mm and 0.3 mm.In addition,for the crack below 0.1 mm,the relative error.is more than 30％ because the bridge is in safe stage and it is very difficult to detect the actual width of crack.