Combined use of thermography and ultrasound for the characterization of subsurface cracks in concrete

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1888-1897

  Aggelis, D G ^a   Kordatos, E Z ^a   Soulioti, D V ^a   Matikas, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corrosion cracking; Thermography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE TESTING; CONCRETE STRUCTURES; CORROSION CRACKING; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; INHOMOGENEITIES; NEAR-SURFACE DAMAGE; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REAL STRUCTURE; SUB-SURFACE DAMAGE; SUBSURFACE CRACKS; TEMPERATURE FIELD; ULTRASONIC RAYLEIGH WAVE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; RAYLEIGH WAVES; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); ULTRASONICS;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 77955281757     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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