DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3689591
title: 3D scans of two types of railway ballast including shape analysis information

description: This data set contains 3D scanner data of two types of railway ballast “Calcite” (stems from Croatia) and “Kieselkalk”, also known as Helvetic Siliceous Limestone, (stems from Switzerland).<br> From each type of ballast 25 stones are scanned. The files are provided in .ply format.<br> For the scanned meshes several shape descriptors are provided: elongation, flatness, sphericity, convexity index.<br> Additional to the 3D scans, both simplified and rounded versions of the meshes are included.<br> For these meshes information on three different angularity indices are available.<br> The scanned ballast types are the same, as previously investigated in uniaxial compression tests and direct shear tests:<br> Suhr, Bettina, & Six, Klaus. (2018).<br> "Compression tests and direct shear test of two types of railway ballast [Data set]"<br> Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1423742 A detailed shape analysis of the results is conducted in:<br> Bettina Suhr, William A. Skipper, Roger Lewis, and Klaus Six<br> "Shape analysis of railway ballast stones: curvature-based calculation of particle angularity"<br> <em>Scientific Reports, </em><strong>2020</strong><em>, 10</em>, 6045<br> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62827-w A summary of several shape descriptors can be found in:<br> B. Suhr and K. Six:<br> "Simple particle shapes for DEM simulations of railway ballast -- influence of shape descriptors on packing behaviour"<br> Granular Matter, <strong>2020</strong><em>, 22</em><br> DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-020-1009-0 <br> This data set is organised as follows:<br> 1_ScanMeshesCleaned<br> scanned meshes:<br> K_1.ply - K_25.ply Calcite (German: Kalzit)<br> KK_1.ply - KK_25.ply Kieselkalk<br> 2_CSE1 <br> simplifications of the scanned meshes, little simplifications, used in the detailed shape analysis<br> CSE1_AngInfo.csv: contains values of three different angularity indices used in the detailed shape analysis<br> 3_CSE2 <br> simplifications of the scanned meshes, more simplified, used in the detailed shape analysis<br> CSE2_AngInfo.csv: contains values of three different angularity indices used in the detailed shape analysis<br> 4_CSE3 <br> simplifications of the scanned meshes, even more simplified, used in the detailed shape analysis<br> CSE3_AngInfo.csv: contains values of three different angularity indices used in the detailed shape analysis<br> 5_CSE4 <br> simplifications of the scanned meshes, most simplified, used in the detailed shape analysis<br> CSE4_AngInfo.csv: contains values of three different angularity indices used in the detailed shape analysis<br> 6_RoundedMeshes<br> artificially rounded versions of the scanned ballast meshes, used in the detailed shape analysis<br> RoundedMeshes_AngInfo.csv: contains values of three different angularity indices used in the detailed shape analysis<br> 7_TestBodies <br> meshes of artificial test bodies, constructed for testing different angularity indices in the detailed shape analysis<br> TestBodies_AngInfo.csv: contains values of three different angularity indices used in the detailed shape analysis<br> scanMeshesInfo.csv: summary of several shape descriptors of the scanned meshes<br> README.txt <br> Check the README.txt file for more information on the technical aspects of scanning.