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This is an investigation about a contact-based cost-effective method that digitizes particle form and allows the determination of their geometric parameters.

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The method is described, compared with well-established laser scanning technique and then applied to study degradation of particles in Los Angeles and microDeval fragmentation tests.

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This page is a summary of: An assessment of contact and laser-based scanning of rock particles for railway ballast, Transportation Geotechnics, March 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100302.
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