Development of low cost 3D soil surface scanning for physical modelling

TY - GEN

T1 - Development of low cost 3D soil surface scanning for physical modelling

AU - Robinson, S.

AU - Brown, M. J.

AU - Brennan, A. J.

AU - Cortis, M.

AU - Augarde, C. E.

AU - Coombs, W. M.

N1 - The 3D surface scanning technique has been developed as part of the Scottish Marine and Renewables Test (SMART) Centre at the University of Dundee funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The model seabed ploughing described in this paper has been undertaken for the EPSRC funded project Seabed ploughing: modelling for infrastructure installation (EP/M000362/1 & EP/M000397/1).

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - 3D scanning is becoming increasingly commonplace in everyday life, but its potential may be yet to be fully exploited in geotechnical research. Key barriers to its use include issues such as the high cost of the hardware required, the need for specialist or custom built software for processing the 3D scan data and challenges in visualising the final 3D scan. This paper describes the development of a low cost soil surface scanning system that can create a 3D representation of a physical model’s surface geometry accurate to within +/- 0.5 mm. The system is based around a low cost commercially available scanner which is easily deployable and provides rapid output in an integrated 3D model which can be easily visualised and interrogated. Meas-ured physical model surface geometry can also be easily transferred into numerical modelling software to al-low complex surface boundaries to be modelled. The scanner output allows detailed analysis of surface de-formations such as the measurement of features of interest, generation of cross-sections of physical models and the calculation of areas and soil volume

AB - 3D scanning is becoming increasingly commonplace in everyday life, but its potential may be yet to be fully exploited in geotechnical research. Key barriers to its use include issues such as the high cost of the hardware required, the need for specialist or custom built software for processing the 3D scan data and challenges in visualising the final 3D scan. This paper describes the development of a low cost soil surface scanning system that can create a 3D representation of a physical model’s surface geometry accurate to within +/- 0.5 mm. The system is based around a low cost commercially available scanner which is easily deployable and provides rapid output in an integrated 3D model which can be easily visualised and interrogated. Meas-ured physical model surface geometry can also be easily transferred into numerical modelling software to al-low complex surface boundaries to be modelled. The scanner output allows detailed analysis of surface de-formations such as the measurement of features of interest, generation of cross-sections of physical models and the calculation of areas and soil volume

UR - http://eurofuge2016.ifsttar.fr/

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9782857827160

SP - 159

EP - 164

BT - Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (EUROFUGE 2016), Nantes, France, 1-3 June 2016

A2 - Thorel, Luc

A2 - Bretschneider, Alberto

A2 - Blanc, Matthieu

A2 - Escoffier, Sandra

PB - IFSTTAR

T2 - 3rd European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics

Y2 - 1 June 2016 through 3 June 2016

ER -