Characterization of pervious concrete focusing on non-destructive testing

Predicting the Permeability of Pervious Concrete (Enhanced Porosity Concrete) from Non-Destructive Electrical Measurements

The effectiveness of a pervious concrete pavement to transport water through it depends on the intrinsic permeability of the system. However, this characteristic is usually defined in terms of the porosity of the material. It has been observed that porosity alone is an inadequate indicator of the permeability of pervious concretes, since the permeability depends on pore sizes, geometry and conn...

Guidebook on non - destructive testing of concrete structures

Synthetic Focusing Aperture Techniques for Non-destructive Testing of Materials

Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique imaging has became a popular tool in the field of non-destructive testing in the past years. The acquisition procedure consists in collecting the data after activating elements one by one. The reconstructed object is then computed by adding the contribution of each channel, selecting the proper time delay values. It is the principle of the well-known delay ...

Artificial neural networks for non destructive testing of concrete structures

In this paper, the determination of defects in concrete structures using an ultrasound technique is discussed. A diagnostic model for concrete pillars by means of Multi Layer Perceptron neural networks is developed to locate and classify the defects. Finite Elements numerical techniques have been used to model a concrete pillar of specified size (i.e., rectangular cross section and 2 meters in ...

Non-destructive Impulse Response S’mash Method for Concrete Pile Testing

Nowadays, in the civil engineering practice, the pile-building is the most universal type of foundation. It is usually associated with bridges, fly-overs and other civil engineering objects, industrial buildings, tall buildings, chimneys, tanks etc [1]. It is essential to control the quality of concrete piles. The most accepted weight-bearing capacity measurement technique is the static probe l...