Friday, November 7, 2008

Computer aided bridge inspection

News story forwarded to me by my dad:

German scientists say they have developed an image-processing software program that automatically detects irregularities in bridge materials. (United Press International)

Quite interesting. This program would probably have warned of the defect in the Minnesota I-35 bridge that was in photographs taken several years before it collapsed, but not noticed at the time.

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