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Although manual crack inspection has been widely used for structural health monitoring over the last decades, the development of computer vision methods allows continuous monitoring and compensates the human judgment inaccuracy. In this study, an image-based method entitled Arc Length method is introduced for extracting crack pattern characteristics, including crack width and crack length. The method contains two major steps; in the first step, the crack zones are estimated in the whole image. Afterwards, the algorithm finds the start point, follows the crack pattern, and measures the crack features, such as crack width, crack length, and crack pattern angle. The efficiency of the method is validated using a few case studies from cracked structural concrete shear walls tested in the laboratory under quasi-static cyclic loadings. The case studies show high efficiency of the proposed method in following the crack patterns even when the crack propagates in two or more branches. The application of this approach plays a significant role in crack monitoring of infrastructures, such as concrete bridges and tunnels.

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