A laboratory prototype of automatic pavement crack sealing based on a modified 3D printer

Jingwei Liu; Xu Yang; Xin Wang; Jian Wei Yam

doi:10.1080/10298436.2021.1875225

A laboratory prototype of automatic pavement crack sealing based on a modified 3D printer

Jingwei Liu, Xu Yang, Xin Wang, Jian Wei Yam

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Abstract

Cracking is a common fault in asphalt and concrete pavements, which causes water damage and further defects if not repaired in timely fashion. Conventional pavement crack sealing methods based on machines and manual operations are generally subjective, labour-intensive, risky, and inefficient. A laboratory prototype of an automatic pavement crack sealing platform is proposed in this paper, which uses a modified three-dimensional (3D) printer and computer vision. A modified 3D printer based on fused deposition modelling (FDM) was combined with an image capturing platform, an image processing algorithm and a path planning method to form the automated pavement crack sealing platform, which can automatically detect pavement cracks and seal them with bitumen emulsion sealant. Specimens of concrete pavement slabs with cracks were produced in the laboratory to test the proposed method, and the cracks were then detected and sealed by the proposed platform. The results show that 3D printing is an effective method for automated pavement crack sealing, which is recommended in the field of automatic road maintenance and repair.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2969-2980
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Pavement Engineering
Volume	23
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2021.1875225
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

3D printing
automatic sealing
image processing
laboratory testing
Pavement cracking

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