Recently, epoxy resin concrete (ERC) has shown significant potential in rapid repair applications, such as bridge expansion joints, owing to its early strength gain, rapid hardening, excellent adhesion, and durability. Based on the background of rapid repair scenarios for small- and medium-span bridges, this study designed a mix proportion of ERC. A systematic investigation was conducted on its mechanical properties and constitutive model under various curing temperatures (5 °C, 20 °C, and 35 °C) and ages. Experimental results indicate that the designed ERC cures within 2 to 6 h and achieves a compressive strength of 15 MPa at 1 day, meeting the requirement for early traffic reopening. Both material strength and elastic modulus increase significantly with age, reaching a compressive elastic modulus of 16 GPa at 90 days. Based on the measured uniaxial compressive and tensile stress–strain data, a temperature-dependent constitutive model was established. The fitting parameters exhibit a quadratic functional relationship with curing temperature. The model demonstrates high fitting accuracy under all tested conditions (R2 ≥ 0.9293). This study provides a theoretical basis and data support for the application and numerical simulation of ERC in bridge engineering.
The nonuniform emissivity of material surface will adversely affect the detection results of the thermal imaging technology. Aiming at the influence of uneven emissivity on the dynamic detection mode of eddy current thermography, a suppression method based on edge detection is proposed in this paper. Since the traditional threshold selection methods are not ideal, a local adaptive threshold selection (LATS) method is applied in this study. This method can automatically obtain the optimal threshold for edge detection to suppress the influence of uneven emissivity. Roberts, Sobel, Prewitt, and Canny operators are tested by using LATS. The results show that Roberts, Sobel, and Prewitt operators can achieve the suppression effect, but the effect of Sobel and Prewitt are similar and better than Roberts.