Radar signal interpretation using neural network for defect detection in concrete

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 393-397

  Shoukry, Samir N ^a   Martinelli, David ^a   Varadarajan, Srinivas T ^a   Halabe, Udaya B ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Concrete; Ground penetrating radar; Infrastructure; Neural nets; Nondestructive testing

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE TESTING; CONCRETES; CRACKS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DEFECTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CONCRETE SPECIMENS; ECHO WAVEFORMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERNAL DEFECTS; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION ALGORITHMS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; RADAR ECHOES; WAVEFORMS;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; CONCRETE BRIDGES;

DEFECT DETECTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERNAL DEFECTS; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; RADAR SIGNAL INTERPRETATION; TIME DOMAIN ECHO SIGNALS;

EID: 0030108345     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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