Evaluation of damage to bridge piers using pulse velocity tomography

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 1303-1309

  Ferraro, Christopher C ^a   Boyd, Andrew J ^b   Consolazio, Gary R ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barge impact structural impact; NDT; Nondestructive evaluation; Nondestructive testing; Tomography; Ultrasonic pulse velocity

Indexed keywords

BARGE IMPACTS; BRIDGE STRUCTURES; IMPACT DAMAGES; INDUCED DAMAGE; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; PULSE VELOCITY; REPEATED IMPACT; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; STRUCTURAL IMPACT; ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY;

BARGES; BRIDGE PIERS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DAMAGE DETECTION; IMPACT TESTING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT VELOCITY;

EID: 84870455038     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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