Towards UAVs in construction: advancements, challenges, and future directions for monitoring and inspection

H Liang, SC Lee, W Bae, J Kim, S Seo - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The use of UAVs for monitoring and inspection in the construction industry has garnered
considerable attention in recent years due to their potential to enhance safety, efficiency …

Faults and infrared thermographic diagnosis in operating c-Si photovoltaic modules: A review of research and future challenges

JA Tsanakas, L Ha, C Buerhop - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy recorded an exponential growth, in worldwide scale, over the
last decade. Inevitably, mature PV markets are becoming highly competitive, boosting the …

Effectiveness of infrared thermography for delamination detection in reinforced concrete bridge decks

E Ichi, S Dorafshan - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents findings of delamination detection using infrared thermography (IRT) in
five in-service bridges using an unmanned aerial vehicle system. The authors have used …

Fault diagnosis of photovoltaic modules through image processing and Canny edge detection on field thermographic measurements

JA Tsanakas, D Chrysostomou… - … journal of sustainable …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Today, conventional condition monitoring of installed, operating photovoltaic (PV) modules
is mainly based on electrical measurements and performance evaluation. However, such …

Review of active IR thermography for detection and characterization of defects in reinforced concrete

B Milovanović, I Banjad Pečur - Journal of Imaging, 2016 - mdpi.com
Active thermography methods enable structural investigations of reinforced concrete
elements taking into account many different testing problems. The goal of this review is to …

Bridge deck delamination identification from unmanned aerial vehicle infrared imagery

A Ellenberg, A Kontsos, F Moon, I Bartoli - Automation in Construction, 2016 - Elsevier
The rapid, cost-effective, and non-disruptive assessment of bridge deck condition has
emerged as a critical challenge for bridge maintenance. Deck delaminations are a common …

Machine Learning‐Based Fault Diagnosis of Self‐Aligning Bearings for Rotating Machinery Using Infrared Thermography

A Mehta, D Goyal, A Choudhary… - Mathematical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bearings are considered as indispensable and critical components of mechanical
equipment, which support the basic forces and dynamic loads. Across different condition …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised fault detection and analysis for large photovoltaic systems using drones and machine vision

M Alsafasfeh, I Abdel-Qader, B Bazuin, Q Alsafasfeh… - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
One of the most important sources of clean energy in the future is expected to be solar
energy which is considered a real time source. Research efforts to optimize solar energy …

Synthesized evaluation of reinforced concrete bridge defects, their non-destructive inspection and analysis methods: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis of …

EM Abdelkader, T Zayed, N Faris - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Defects are essential indicators to gauge the structural integrity and safety of reinforced
concrete bridges. Non-destructive inspection has been pervasively explored over the last …

The influence of ambient environmental conditions in detecting bridge concrete deck delamination using infrared thermography (IRT)

BNK Raja, S Miramini, C Duffield, M Sofi… - … Control and Health …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Delamination is a serious form of deterioration in concrete bridge decks. Infrared
thermography (IRT) is an advance non‐destructive testing method for concrete bridge deck …