Damage Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Fractal Analysis of Residual Crack Patterns

Experimental Mechanics

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1607-1619

  Farhidzadeh, A ^a   Dehghan Niri, E ^a   Moustafa, A ^a   Salamone, S ^a   Whittaker, A ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Cracks pattern quantification; Damage index; Fractal dimension; Reinforced concrete structures; Visual inspection

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CRACKS PATTERNS; DAMAGE CLASSIFICATION; DAMAGE INDEX; REINFORCED CONCRETE ELEMENTS; REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR WALLS; REVERSED CYCLIC LOADING; VISUAL INSPECTION;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETES; DAMAGE DETECTION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRACKS;

EID: 84886257206     PISSN: 00144851     EISSN: 17412765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11340-013-9769-7     Document Type: Article

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