Novel sensor technology for NDE of concrete

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7292, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages

  Ni, Xianglei ^a   Rizzo, Piervincenzo ^a   Daraio, Chiara ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete slabs; Highly nonlinear solitary waves; Nondestructive evaluation; Novel sensors

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY FUNCTIONS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LINEAR WAVES; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; NOVEL SENSORS; PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTALS; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STRESS WAVE; STRUCTURAL MATERIALS; TRANSDUCTION MECHANISM; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCRETE SLABS; ELASTIC WAVES; FUNCTION GENERATORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POROUS MATERIALS; SENSORS; SOLITONS; TECHNOLOGY;

INNOVATION;

EID: 77953522190     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.815510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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