Monitoring and predicting masonry's creep failure with the acoustic emission technique

NDT and E International

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 518-523

  Verstrynge, Els ^a   Schueremans, Luc ^a   Van Gemert, Dionys ^a   Wevers, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Creep; Damage accumulation; Masonry

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TECHNIQUES; BATHTUB CURVE; CREEP FAILURE; CREEP TESTS; DAMAGE ACCUMULATION; LONG TERM CREEP; MASONRY; TIME TO FAILURE; WEIBULL FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTICS; CREEP; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOUNDATIONS; MASONRY MATERIALS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

EID: 67349277728     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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