Nondestructive determination of the steel fiber content in concrete slabs with an open-ended coaxial probe

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2511-2521

  Van Damme, Stephan ^a   Franchois, Ann ^a,b   De Zutter, Daniël ^a   Taerwe, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concrete; Effective permittivity; Homogenization; Microwaves; Nondestructive testing; Open ended coaxial probe; Random medium; Rational function model; Steel fibers

Indexed keywords

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FIBERS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; STEEL;

EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; HOMOGENIZATION; OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL PROBE; RATIONAL FUNCTION MODELS; STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE (SFRC); STEEL FIBERS;

CONCRETE SLABS;

EID: 9944252943     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.837332     Document Type: Article

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