Monitoring of cracking and healing in an ultra high performance cementitious material using the time reversal technique

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 296-302

  Granger, S ^a   Pijaudier Cabot, G ^b   Loukili, A ^a   Marlot, D ^c   Lenain, J C ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN GÉNIE CIVIL ET MÉCANIQUE GEM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c Euro Physical Acoustics   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Cracking; Healing; Non destructive technique; Time reversal

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CONCRETES; CRACKS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

ACOUSTIC MIRRORS; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; CONCRETE SPECIMENS; CRACK PATHS; CRACK-HEALING; CRACKING; CRACKING PROCESS; HEALING; HEALING PROCESS; MECHANICAL TESTS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SELF-HEALING; THREE-POINT BENDING; TIME REVERSAL; TIME REVERSAL TECHNIQUES; ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 62649171661     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconres.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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