Fatigue crack propagation monitoring by Acoustic Emission signal analysis

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-32

  Antonaci, P ^a   Bocca, P ^a   Masera, D ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic Emission; Crack propagation; Fatigue; FRP; Masonry; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNAL; AE SIGNALS; CHARACTERISTIC PEAKS; DAMAGE EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE LOADINGS; FRACTURE DIMENSIONS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FRP; LOADING CONDITION; MACRO CRACKING; MACRODEFECTS; MASONRY; MASONRY STRUCTURES; REINFORCED MASONRY; REINFORCING METHOD; S-WAVES; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SHEAR COMPONENTS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WAVE SPEED;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE DAMAGE; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE; SHEAR FLOW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

MASONRY MATERIALS;

EID: 84856364609     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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