Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (4): 749-759.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2025.20240123

• Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing • Previous Articles    

A 3D modelling method for temperature field of mountain bridges coupled with numerical simulation and spatio-temporal interpolation fusion

Weilian LI1,2(), Jun ZHU1(), Qing ZHU1, Jialuo LI1   

  1. 1.Faculty of Geosciences and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
    2.Key Laboratory of Surveying and Mapping Science and Geospatial Information Technology of MNR, Beijing 100036, China
  • Received:2024-03-29 Published:2025-05-30
  • Contact: Jun ZHU E-mail:vgewilliam@163.com;zhujun@swjtu.edu.cn
  • About author:LI Weilian (1993—), male, PhD, associate researcher, majors in virtual geographical environment and 3D visualization. E-mail: vgewilliam@163.com
  • Supported by:
    The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2024YFC3015404);The Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Geo-Information Engineering and Key Laboratory of Surveying and Mapping Science and Geospatial Information Technology of MNR, CASM(2024-02-09);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(42271424);The Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2024T170742);Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(GZC20232185);Open Project Fund of National Engineering Research Center of Digital Construction and Evaluation Technology of Urban Rail Transit(2024实验研委015号)

Abstract:

Temperature field modelling is crucial for bridge construction and refined management. However, the temperature difference in mountainous areas varies greatly, and the existing temperature field simulation methods based on finite element analysis face challenges due to sparse results and inhomogeneous spatio-temporal distributions, making it difficult to describe bridges' temperature changes accurately. This article proposes a 3D modelling method for temperature field of mountain bridges coupled with numerical simulation and spatio-temporal interpolation fusion. First, a numerical simulation model of the solar radiation temperature field for mountainous bridges is established; Second, the temperature simulation results are registered with the bridge voxel model, and spatio-temporal interpolation fusion is adopted to model the temperature field of mountainous bridges. Next, efficient visualization of the temperature field of mountainous bridges is achieved based on ray casting. Finally, a large-scale steel truss cable-stayed bridge in Ganzi, Sichuan province, China, is selected as a case study for experimental analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively complement the temperature field simulation results to accurately depict the spatio-temporal distribution and variation patterns of the temperature field of mountainous bridges. The interpolation fusion accuracy was improved by 22.11% and 7.38% compared to spatial and temporal interpolation, respectively. The visualization frame rate has increased by 36.4% through volume rendering, which can provide key data support for subsequent intelligent construction and refined management of mountainous bridges driven by digital twins. Also, it offers crucial reference value for the realistic representation of environmental parameters of the component-level 3D real scene model.

Key words: mountain bridges, temperature field simulation, 3D modelling, spatio-temporal interpolation fusion, volume rendering optimization

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