Crack depth estimation in concrete using energy transmission of surface waves

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 510-516

  Shin, Sung Woo ^a   Zhu, Jinying ^b,c   Min, Jiyoung ^d   Popovics, John S ^c,e,f  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c ACI ^*

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

^f ACI Committees 123

Author keywords

Crack depth; Nondestructive testing; Spectral energy transmission; Stress waves

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE STRUCTURES; CRACK DEPTH; CRACK DEPTH ESTIMATION; CRACK DEPTHS; CUT-OFF FREQUENCIES; DEPTH ESTIMATION; ENERGY TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MEASUREMENT DATA; NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHODS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; SELF-CALIBRATING; SPECTRAL ENERGY TRANSMISSION; SPECTRAL-ENERGY; STRESS WAVES; SURFACE-BREAKING CRACKS; TIME -OF-FLIGHT; TRANSMISSION FUNCTIONS;

CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CONCRETE SLABS; CRACK PROPAGATION; ESTIMATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 52649136058     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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