Determining crack depth and measurement errors using time-of-flight diffraction techniques

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 190-195

  Lin, Yiching ^a   Liou, Tzonghow ^a   Tsai, Wen Hsiang ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cracking (fracturing); Errors; Measurement

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE TESTING; CORE DRILLING; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DIFFRACTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CRACK DEPTH; SURFACE DISTURBANCES; TIME OF FLIGHT DIFFRACTION TECHNIQUES;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 0033102967     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Naik, T. R., and Malhotra, V M., "The Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Method," Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete, V. M. Malhotra and N. J. Carino, eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 1991, pp. 169-188.
2. Ohtsu, M., and Yuno, K., "Crack Evaluation in Concrete Members Based on Ultrasonic Spectroscopy," ACI Materials Journal, V. 92, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1995, pp. 686-698.
3. Sansalone, M., and Carino, N. J., "Detecting Honeycombing, the Depth of Surface-Opening Cracks, and Ungrouted Ducts Using the Impact-Echo Method," Concrete International, V. 10, No. 4, Apr. 1988, pp. 38-46.
4. Ohtsu, M., and Yuno, K., "Development of In Situ Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques for Rebar Corrosion, Concrete Deterioration and Internal Cracks," Proceedings, ACI International Conference on Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures and Innovations in Design, Hong Kong, 1991, pp. 893-907.
5. Wu, T. T., and Fang, J. S., "Nondestructive Evaluation of Surface-Breaking Cracks in Concrete Using Transient Elastic Waves," Proceedings of the 1994 Far East Conference on Nondestructive Testing, 1994, pp. 323-330.
6. Lin, Y., and Su, W. C., "Use of Stress Waves for Determining the Depth of Surface-Opening Cracks in Concrete Structures," ACI Materials Journal, V. 93, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1996, pp. 494-505.
7. Charlesworth, J. P., and Temple J. A. G., Engineering Applications of Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Diffraction, Research Studies Press, Ltd., Taunton, Somerset, England, 1989.
8. Sansalone, M., and Streett, W. B., Impact-Echo: Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete and Masonry Bullbrier Press, Jersey Shore, 1997.
9. Sansalone, M.; Lin, J. M.; and Streett, W. B., "Determining the Depth of Surface-Opening Cracks Using Impact-Generated Stress Waves and Time-of-Flight Techniques," ACI Materials Journal, V. 95, No. 2, Mar.-Apr. 1998, pp. 168-177.
10. Lin, Y.; Liou, T.; and Hsiao, C., "Influences of Reinforcing Bars on Crack Depth Measurement by Stress Waves," ACI Materials Journal, V. 95, No. 4, July-Aug. 1998, pp. 407-418.
11. Proctor, T., "Some Details of the NBS Conical Transducer," Journal of Acoustic Emission, V. 1., No. 3, 1982, pp. 173-178.