Photogrammetric Method to Determine Physical Aperture and Roughness of a Rock Fracture
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2022-06-01
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en
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25
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), Volume 22, issue 11
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Rock discontinuities play an important role in the behavior of rock masses and have a high impact on their mechanical and hydrological properties, such as strength and permeability. The surfaces roughness and physical aperture of rock joints are vital characteristics in joint shear strength and fluid flow properties. This study presents a method to digitally measure the physical aperture of a rock fracture digitized using photogrammetry. A 50 cm × 50 cm rock sample of Kuru grey granite with a thoroughgoing fracture was digitized. The data was collected using a high-resolution digital camera and four low-cost cameras. The aperture and surface roughness were measured, and the influence of the camera type and 3D model rasterization on the measurement results was quantified. The results showed that low-cost cameras and smartphones can be used for generating 3D models for accurate measurement of physical aperture and roughness of rock fractures. However, the selection of appropriate rasterization grid interval plays a key role in accurate estimations. For measuring the physical aperture from the photogrammetric 3D models, reducing rasterization grid interval results in less scattered measurement results and a small rasterization grid interval of 0.1 mm is recommended. For roughness measurements, increasing the grid interval results in smaller measurement errors, and therefore a larger rasterization grid interval of 0.5 mm is recommended for high-resolution smartphones and 1 mm for other low-cost cameras.Description
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photogrammetry, physical aperture, roughness, JRC, camera, rock fracture
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Torkan, M, Janiszewski, M, Uotinen, L, Baghbanan, A & Rinne, M 2022, ' Photogrammetric Method to Determine Physical Aperture and Roughness of a Rock Fracture ', Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 22, no. 11, 4165 . https://doi.org/10.3390/s22114165