Description
The process of object digitization and digitalization includes several key steps and considerations: 1) segmentation and classification involves dividing the object into regions with homogeneous properties and assigning labels to each region based on its characteristics. 2) Digitalization refers to the process of discretizing specific geometric entities based on a predefined level of detail. The level of detail chosen depends on the scale of representation, visualization, and thematic content.
Strongly related to the digitalization is geometrical model implementation that can serve different objectives such as those concerning the structural analyses of the digitized object. In this framework two methods will be presented concerning microplane (Bazant and Oh, 1985) and lattice based model that data back to the Hrennikoff (1943) model. Those methods will be discussed including applications that concern: concrete element, Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) materials used for the reinforcement of existing concrete elements as well as new FRP element. Depending on the adopted scale the numerical model can be implemented based on Voronoi (1908) Diagrams and Delaunay (1934) triangulations that find applications in various fields, including cluster analysis, record access scheduling, and collision detection.
