To quantitatively characterize the shape of coarse aggregates, a needle flake gauge meter was used to sieve coarse aggregates. The image technique was used to carry out the operations of edge recognition, greying and image binarization. Image-Pro Plus was employed to obtain the grain-shape parameters of the coarse aggregates, including sphericity and flatness. Tested void contents were obtained for the coarse aggregates so that the relationship between the shape parameters (sphericity, flatness) and the accumulated void content was analyzed. Th...