Optical Flow Method for Measuring Deformation of Soil Specimen Subjected to Torsional Shearing

In this study optical flow method was used for soil small deformation measurement in laboratory tests. The main objective was to observe how the deformation distributes along the whole height of cylindrical soil specimen subjected to torsional shearing (TS test). The experiments were conducted on dr...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-01
Main Authors: Srokosz, Piotr E, Bujko, Marcin, Bocheńska, Marta, Ossowski, Rafał
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Cohesive soils
Deformation analysis
Deformation mechanisms
Feature extraction
Laboratory tests
Linearity
Measurement methods
Motion simulation
Optical flow (image analysis)
Particle image velocimetry
Shear modulus
Shearing
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Summary:In this study optical flow method was used for soil small deformation measurement in laboratory tests. The main objective was to observe how the deformation distributes along the whole height of cylindrical soil specimen subjected to torsional shearing (TS test). The experiments were conducted on dry non-cohesive soil specimens under two values of isotropic pressure. Specimens were loaded with low-amplitude cyclic torque to analyze the deformation within the small strain range (0.001-0.01%). Optical flow method variant by Ce Liu (2009) was used for motion estimation from series of images. This algorithm uses scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) for image feature extraction and coarse-to-fine matching scheme for faster calculations. The results were validated with the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The results show that the displacement distribution deviates from commonly assumed linearity. Moreover, the observed deformation mechanisms analysis suggest that the shear modulus \(G\) commonly determined through TS tests can be considerably overestimated.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2101.07005