Pavement crack is the main form of early diseases of pavement. The use of digital photography to record pavement images and subsequent crack detection and classification has undergone continuous improvements over the past decade. Digital image processing has been applied to detect the pavement crack for its advantages of large amount of information and auto detection. The application of digital...

background & aim : quality of life indicates individual’s level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with different aspects of life. one of the aspects that could affect aspects of life is mental distress. the aim of this study was to study the relation between quality of life and mental distresses kurd seniors living in saghez. methods & materials : this research was a correlation study conducte...

background & aim: quality of life indicates individual’s level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with different aspects of life. one of the aspects that could affect aspects of life is mental distress. the aim of this study was to study the relation between quality of life and mental distresses kurd seniors living in saghez city, iran. methods & materials: this research was a correlation study...

In recent years a great number of advanced theoretical - empirical methods has been developed for design & modeling concrete pavements distress. But there is no reliable theoretical method to be use in evaluation of conerete pavements distresses and making a decision about repairing them. Only empirical methods is used for this reason. One of the most usual methods in evaluating concrete paveme...

The present era, in particular, the last 3 to 4 decades can be easily named “Plastic Age” and dealing with plastic waste has always been a challenging affair for Urban local bodies. Plastic roads are bituminous or pavement that have blended mix their wearing courses. being sustainable technology becoming very popular nowadays as substitute conventional India other parts of World. Evaluation is ...

This study develops and tests an automatic pixel-level image recognition model to reduce the amount of manual labor required collect data for road maintenance. Firstly, images six kinds pavement distresses, namely, transverse cracks, longitudinal alligator block potholes, patches, are collected from four asphalt highways in three provinces China build a labeled dataset containing 10,097 images....