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Browsing Research Articles (Civil Engineering) by UP Author "Broekman, Andre"
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Grabe, Petrus Johannes; Mpye, Godisang David; Vandoorne, Rick; Broekman, Andre; Pienaar, Daniel; Hawley, Chad; Van Schalkwyk, Hein
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2021-05)
The launch of Engineering 4.0 on 30 November 2020 at the University of
Pretoria’s Hillcrest campus marked the start of an ambitious endeavour to
realise data-driven smart cities and transportation networks.
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Jordaan, Gerrit Jacobus; Steyn, Wynand Jacobus Van der Merwe; Broekman, Andre
(MDPI, 2021-03)
Emulsion stabilisation of base layers surfaced with chip seals often proves problematic, with
chips punching into the base and early distress. This can be aggravated by the use of modified binders
that restricts the ...
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Broekman, Andre; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem; Louw, Hendrik; Kearsley, Elsabe P.; Gaspar, Tiago Alexandre Valentim; Da Silva Burke, Talia Simone
(Elsevier, 2020-10)
Geotechnical centrifuges are valuable instruments for physical modelling of complex
geotechnical problems in a controlled laboratory setting. In comparison to full-scale testing, scaled models are cost effective to construct ...
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Broekman, Andre; Van Niekerk, Jacobus Oostewald; Grabe, Petrus Johannes
(Elsevier, 2020-12)
A high-resolution dataset of digitally scanned railway ballast
(HRSBallast) is presented, consisting of 108 individual, digitised samples. The ballast samples were sourced from both a
railway test track section located ...
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Broekman, Andre; Grabe, Petrus Johannes
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
Centimetre accurate geolocation service is beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging
from sports engineering, civil infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, surveying to digitisation
of historically significant ...
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Louw, Hendrik; Broekman, Andre; Kearsley, Elsabe P.
(Elsevier, 2022-10)
Wind turbine power generation, both onshore and offshore, has gained significant popularity over the past few decades. However, the design of a turbine’s foundation, capable of supporting a tall structure subject to large ...
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Broekman, Andre; Grabe, Petrus Johannes
(Elsevier, 2020-10)
A Perfectly Accurate, Synthetic dataset for Multi-View Stere- opsis (PASMVS) is presented, consisting of 400 scenes and 18,0 0 0 model renderings together with ground truth depth maps, camera intrinsic and extrinsic ...
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Broekman, Andre; Grabe, Petrus Johannes
(Elsevier, 2021-09-23)
A Perfectly Accurate, Synthetic dataset featuring a virtual railway EnVironment for Multi-View Stereopsis (RailEnV- PASMVS) is presented, consisting of 40 scenes and 79,800 renderings together with ground truth depth maps, ...
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Jacobsz, Schalk Willem; Broekman, Andre; Basson, Jack Adriaan; Vandoorne, Rick; Vermaak, Jan
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2020-08)
Due to their size and often their remoteness,
large geotechnical structures such
as tailings dams are ideally suited to
be observed using smart monitoring
technologies. With the arrival of the 4th
Industrial Revolution ...
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Broekman, Andre; Steyn, Wynand Jacobus Van der Merwe; Steyn, J.L.P. (Johannes); Bill, Malick; Korsten, Lise
(Elsevier, 2020-10)
Avocado and tomato production are key agricultural sectors for many economies including
South Africa. The quality of avocadoes and tomatoes that reach consumers is directly dependent on the handling at the postharvest ...
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Basson, Jack; Broekman, Andre; Jacobsz, Schalk Willem
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
Tailings dams are large, often self-contained, storage facilities of mine residue. On self-contained tailings dams the tailings material itself is used to raise the containment embankments holding newly deposited residue. ...