Portable Simulated Flood Culvert for Surveying
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing surveying and mapping methods for culverts are hindered by complex environments, leading to significant errors and high costs due to direct field surveys, which fail to accurately reflect actual values and are labor-intensive.
Innovation Solution
A portable simulated flood discharge culvert system comprising telescopic support rods, a tarpaulin, floors with protrusions, adjusting mechanisms, a fog generating device, and a lighting system, allowing for the creation of a controlled laboratory environment to simulate actual culvert conditions and facilitate accurate surveying and mapping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If direct field survey is adopted for culvert surveying and mapping, then the surveying can be performed in actual environment, but the surveying accuracy deteriorates due to complex environment affecting the surveying device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simulated culvert model in a laboratory that replicates the complex environmental features of actual culverts (including irregular shapes, varying heights, and obstacle arrangements) to copy the challenging surveying conditions without the harmful environmental interference present in field surveys. This allows surveying devices to be tested and calibrated in a controlled environment that mirrors real-world complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The simulated culvert model allows for controlled adjustment of geometric parameters such as height, width, and shape variations to match different actual culvert conditions. By changing these parameters in the laboratory model, the system can simulate various surveying scenarios and test device performance under different environmental conditions systematically.
2Productivity
If direct field survey is performed for culvert surveying and mapping, then actual culvert data can be collected, but the workload and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
By creating a laboratory-based simulated culvert model that replicates actual culvert conditions, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming field surveys. The model can be prepared in advance with predetermined geometric characteristics, allowing rapid data collection and processing without traveling to actual culvert locations, thereby significantly reducing surveying time and costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The simulated culvert model is prepared in advance in the laboratory with all necessary geometric features and obstacle arrangements already in place. This preliminary preparation allows surveying devices to be pre-calibrated and tested before actual field deployment, ensuring that all surveying parameters are optimized beforehand and reducing the need for time-consuming on-site adjustments.
3Manufacturing precision
If direct field survey is used for culvert surveying and mapping, then real-world data is obtained, but the surveying data does not truly reflect actual values due to environmental errors
Solution Approach 1:
The simulated culvert model creates a controlled copy of actual culvert conditions where the geometry, obstacles, and environmental factors are precisely replicated in the laboratory. This allows surveying devices to produce data that reliably reflects true actual values because the model eliminates random environmental errors while maintaining the essential geometric characteristics of real culverts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows for precise control and adjustment of geometric parameters in the simulated model (such as exact dimensions, shapes, and obstacle positions) to match actual culvert conditions. By controlling these parameters in the laboratory, the surveying data obtained can be reliably correlated with actual values, as the model provides known reference conditions that eliminate environmental variability and measurement errors.
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AI summary
Provided is a portable simulated flood discharge culvert for surveying and mapping, including a supporting device, where the supporting device includes a plurality of telescopic support rods, and the telescopic support rods; a tarpaulin, where the tarpaulin is cover on outer walls of the telescopic support rods; connecting devices, where each of the connecting devices is installed between any two adjacent telescopic support rods; floors, where the floors are respectively arranged between the plurality of telescopic support rods, and top surfaces of the floors are provided with a plurality of protrusions; adjusting devices, where each of the adjusting devices includes angle adjusting mechanisms and a height adjusting mechanism, and the angle adjusting mechanisms and the height adjusting mechanism are respectively fixed on a bottom surface of each of the floors; a fog generating device, a lighting part, and additional blocks.