Abstract
Numerous post-windstorm investigations have reported that windborne debris can cause costly damage to the envelope of buildings in urban areas under strong winds (e.g., during hurricanes or tornados). Thus, understanding the physics of debris flight is of critical importance. Previously developed numerical models describing debris flight physics have not been validated for the complex urban flow environment; such a validation requires experimentally measuring the debris flight trajectory in wind tunnel tests. In this context, this paper proposes a debris measurement algorithm using stereophotogrammetry. This algorithm aims to determine the six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) trajectory and velocity of flying debris, addressing the research gap, i.e., the lack of an algorithm/software for measuring three-rotational-DOF using stereophotogrammetry. This is a civil engineering problem, but computer graphics is the foundation to solve it. This paper focuses on the theoretical development of the algorithm. The developed algorithm can be readily implemented in modern wind tunnel experiments.
Recommended Citation
C. Sabharwal and Y. Guo, "Tracking the 6-DOF Flight Trajectory of Windborne Debris using Stereophotogrammetry," Infrastructures, vol. 4, no. 4, MDPI AG, Oct 2019.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures4040066
Department(s)
Computer Science
Keywords and Phrases
Coordinate system; Debris; Differential; Frame; Motion; Trajectory
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
2412-3811
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2019 The Authors, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Publication Date
01 Oct 2019
