Inspection of interfaces between corroded steel bars and concrete using the combination of a piezoelectric zirconate-titanate transducer and an electromagnetic acoustic transducer

Experimental Mechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 24-31

  Na, Won Bae ^a   Kund, Tribikram ^b  

^a Arizona Department of Transportation   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete; EMAT; Interface inspection; PZT

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

SOIL NAILS;

STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

INTERFACE; STEEL;

EID: 0037355026     PISSN: 00144851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02410480     Document Type: Article

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