A study of concrete hydration and dielectric relaxation mechanism using ground penetrating radar and short-time Fourier transform

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lai, W L ^a   Kind, T ^a   Wiggenhauser, H ^a  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND WATERS; CONCRETE HYDRATION; CONCRETE SURFACE; DIRECT WAVES; EMBEDDED STEEL; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HARDENED STATE; HYDRATION PROCESS; JOINT TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; ORDINARY PORTLAND CEMENT; PEAK FREQUENCIES; REFLECTED WAVES; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORMS; WAVE FORMS;

DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HYDRATION; PORTLAND CEMENT; RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 77956813479     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/317216     Document Type: Article

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