Ultrasonic evaluation of damage in heterogeneous concrete materials

European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Smolarkiewicz, Pawel P ^a   Nogueira, Carnot L ^b   Willam, Kaspar J ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Concrete heterogeneity; Concrete materials; Damage assessment; Finite element simulation of ultrasonic testing; Pulse transmission; Ultrasonic testing

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE HETEROGENEITY; CONCRETE MATERIALS; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; PULSE TRANSMISSION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONCRETES; DAMAGE DETECTION; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

CONCRETE AGGREGATES;

EID: 33644480020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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