Abstract
Laboratory experiments are typically performed on particulate media to study stress-deformation behavior and to verify or calibrate computer models from controlled or measured boundary stresses and displacements. However, such data do not permit the formation of shear bands, displacement fields within flowing granular media, and other smallscale localized deformation phenomena to be identified. Described are two semiautomated computer vision techniques for accurately determining the two-dimensional displacement field in granular soils from video images obtained through a transparent planar viewing window. The techniques described are applicable for studying the behavior of particulate media under plane strain and certain axisymmetric test conditions. Digital image processing and analysis routines are used in two different computer programs, Tracker and Tracer, Tracker uses a graphical user interface that allows individual particles to be selected and tracked through a sequence of digital video images. A c...
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