Floor Crack Inspection

Logistics facilities with growing needs Floor slab cracking Inspection

In order to maintain the aesthetics, durability, and seismic resistance of concrete structures over the long term, it is important to control the occurrence of cracks in the concrete. There are various factors that can cause such cracking, including shrinkage due to loss of moisture in the concrete and cracking from floor deflection caused by settlement due to the dead weight of the floor concrete.

Recently, logistics facilities are on the increase due to the flourishing online shopping market and the rapid progress of robotic logistics transport systems. Cracks in the concrete floor slabs of such facilities can have a significant impact on operations. We can meet your needs with quick and accurate surveys that combine our knowledge gained from years of extensive surveys of concrete structures with solutions that make work more efficient.

Crack investigation of concrete floor surface

Survey techniques for objective and accurate crack extraction

Cracks always occur in concrete. When cracks occur, not only do they cause aesthetic problems, but they also pose a growing problem of durability performance. Therefore, it is important to understand the width and progression of cracks from the initial stage.

Conventional surveys using manual sketches are subject to the possibility of human error, such as omissions, and are also extremely time-consuming and costly in the case of vast distribution facilities. We use the “Large Plane Photography Technique” to efficiently photograph large floor surfaces, and our proprietary AI analysis software “Smart Crack Checker” for image analysis to realize efficient work.

Smart Crack Checker Features

Other methods: example of crack survey by drone

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Recently, drones have been increasingly used to improve operational efficiency. We also use drones to survey the exterior walls of buildings, and are expanding their use to survey the concrete floors of logistics warehouses. In the case of large logistics facilities, it sometimes takes time to take photographs even with the digital single-lens reflex (SLR) system introduced above. In such cases, the use of a drone can drastically shorten the shooting time.

Image Correction (perspective Correction)

In order to accurately extract degradation, there are always problems that need to be corrected in images captured by a camera, such as image distortion caused by camera lens characteristics, such as “barrel aberration,” in which the image expands outward, and “filament aberration,” in which the image contracts inward, and angular tilt during shooting, as in the image above.

Our system compensates for all of these factors at once, improving the accuracy of automatic crack extraction and enabling the identification of deterioration information at the exact location.