Longitudinal guided waves for monitoring chloride corrosion in reinforcing bars in concrete

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-567

  Sharma, Shruti ^a   Mukherjee, Abhijit ^a  

^a THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

concrete; corrosion; guided waves; longitudinal; monitoring; pulse echo; pulse transmission; reinforcing bars; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

AGING INFRASTRUCTURE; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; CHLORIDE CORROSION; CIVIL ENGINEERS; CORROSION MONITORING; EARLY DETECTION; GUIDED ULTRASONIC WAVES; LONGITUDINAL; LOSS OF LIFE; NON-INTRUSIVE; PULSE ECHO; PULSE ECHOES; PULSE TRANSMISSION; RC BEAMS; REAL TIME MONITORING; REINFORCING BAR; REINFORCING STEELS; STEEL BARS; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES;

BARS (METAL); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DAMAGE DETECTION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PITTING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 77958605346     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921710365415     Document Type: Article

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