Health monitoring of a concrete structure using piezoceramic materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5765, Issue PART 1, 2005, Pages 108-119

  Song, G ^a   Gu, H ^a   Mo, Y L ^a   Hsu, T ^a   Dhonde, H ^a   Zhu, R R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bent cap; Piezoceramic materials; Structural crack detection; Structural health monitoring; Wavelet packet analysis

Indexed keywords

BENT-CAP; HEALTH MONITORING; STRUCTURAL CRACK DETECTION; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; WAVELET PACKET ANALYSIS;

CRACKS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 25144465680     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.602658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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