Image processing technique of smoke flow visualization for the prediction of behavior of airborne sea salt around a bridge girder

Hiroshi Hasebe, Tsubasa Kosugi, Shion Hatamoto, Taito Kawai, Syunya Nakayama, Takashi Nomuta

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Abstract

Recently, the importance of maintenance to infrastructures has been increasing. One of the most important points in bridge maintenance is to prevent its corrosion. Especially, it is necessary to predict the advection diffusion behavior of airborne sea salt around a bridge girder because bridges located in coastal areas are affected by it. In the present study, in order to predict the behavior of airborne sea salt, we conducted flow visualizations around a square cylinder and a bridge girder which has two I-girders. Then we evaluated smoke concentration of the visualized flows by using the image processing technique. As a result, it is confirmed that smoke concentration of the inner region of the separated shear layer is very small. Therefore, it can be estimated amount of airborne sea salt inside the separated shear layer region is smaller than other regions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, APCWE 2013
EditorsNagesh R. Iyer, Prem Krishna, Rajan S. Selvi, P. Harikrishna
PublisherResearch Publishing Services
Pages150-157
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789810780111
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, APCWE 2013 - Chennai, India
Duration: 10 Dec 201314 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, APCWE 2013

Conference

Conference8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, APCWE 2013
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityChennai
Period10/12/1314/12/13

Keywords

  • Airborne sea salt
  • Bridge girder
  • Flow visualization
  • Image processing technique

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