• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.2D
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• pp.171-179
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• 2010

The purpose of the present study is to suggest composing the graph topology of sketch drawing element and the recognition of the shape pattern for the earthwork quantity calculation. The algorithm which can extract the topology element such as vertex, edge, face and establish the relation between each topology was developed. The model which can define earthwork graph and recognize the shape pattern of earthwork was presented. As a result of the study, the shape pattern of earthwork that can't be calculated by existing earthwork calculation program could be recognized as expanding this model. The earthwork shape recognition automation using the graph topology model can be applied to the automation for the earthwork quantity estimation.