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ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS TESTING AS A NONDESTRUCTIVE MONITOR OF CONCRETE CRACKING DUE TO REINFORCING BAR CORROSION

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Date Issued:
1982
Summary:
Steel reinforced concrete specimens of loaded and unloaded configuration were placed in contact with seawater in a state of accelerated corrosion. They were simultaneously monitored for acoustic emission and the results were analyzed in an evaluation of the use of acoustic emission as a nondestructive monitor of corrosion induced cracking. It was shown that, in a laboratory environment, counts and amplitude information are sensitive indicators of the levels of cracking within the concrete specimen; and thereby the degree of corrosion damage may be inferred. Analytical models applicable to the representation of acoustic emission amplitude distribution are discussed also.
Title: ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS TESTING AS A NONDESTRUCTIVE MONITOR OF CONCRETE CRACKING DUE TO REINFORCING BAR CORROSION.
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Name(s): YOUNG, JAMES DANIEL.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Dunn, Stanley E., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 151 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Steel reinforced concrete specimens of loaded and unloaded configuration were placed in contact with seawater in a state of accelerated corrosion. They were simultaneously monitored for acoustic emission and the results were analyzed in an evaluation of the use of acoustic emission as a nondestructive monitor of corrosion induced cracking. It was shown that, in a laboratory environment, counts and amplitude information are sensitive indicators of the levels of cracking within the concrete specimen; and thereby the degree of corrosion damage may be inferred. Analytical models applicable to the representation of acoustic emission amplitude distribution are discussed also.
Identifier: 14141 (digitool), FADT14141 (IID), fau:12562 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Subject(s): Reinforced concrete--Cracking
Reinforced concrete--Corrosion
Acoustic emission testing
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