کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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295798 | 511577 | 2006 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Periodic assessment of ageing civil structures is important for structural integrity and public safety. Numerous destructive and non-destructive techniques employing different energy sources have been proposed for structural health monitoring. Amongst the non-destructive evaluation techniques proposed for monitoring material strength and contents of concrete structures, techniques employing microwaves offer distinct advantages in that they are non-radioactive and provide good penetration, excellent contrast between steel reinforcement bar and concrete, and insensitivity to ambient temperature. In this paper, the feasibility of a far-field microwave NDE technique for concrete imaging is investigated via numerical simulations and experiments on cement based samples using far-field microwave reflection coefficients.
Journal: NDT & E International - Volume 39, Issue 7, October 2006, Pages 585–593