Wave propagation in reinforced and prestressed concrete
structures with damage
Wave propagation in reinforced and prestressed concrete
structures with damage
Corrosion of the steel reinforcement bars in reinforced concrete is the most common cause of premature failure that must be pre-empted. In this respect, wave based techniques provide a potential detection approach. In this paper, wave propagation is modelled in a steel reinforced concrete beam with and without prestress. A short section of the beam is modelled in ANSYS. This model is then used in the wave finite element (WFE) framework, which assumes spatial periodicity along the waveguide, to model a beam of infinite extent. Corrosion of the reinforcement bars is represented by a local loss of thickness. Numerical case studies are presented to investigate the effects of various configurations and the severity of damage on the dispersion curves of the propagating waves. Scattering matrices are also calculated for the damage site, by coupling damaged and undamaged sections of the waveguide. Wave modes are subsequently identified for which the reflection coefficients are potentially sufficiently large to observe and use for damage identification.
El Masri, Evelyne
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Ferguson, Neil
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Waters, Timothy
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El Masri, Evelyne
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El Masri, Evelyne, Ferguson, Neil and Waters, Timothy
(2016)
Wave propagation in reinforced and prestressed concrete
structures with damage.
ISMA 2016 Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, , Leuven, Belgium.
19 - 21 Sep 2016.
12 pp
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Corrosion of the steel reinforcement bars in reinforced concrete is the most common cause of premature failure that must be pre-empted. In this respect, wave based techniques provide a potential detection approach. In this paper, wave propagation is modelled in a steel reinforced concrete beam with and without prestress. A short section of the beam is modelled in ANSYS. This model is then used in the wave finite element (WFE) framework, which assumes spatial periodicity along the waveguide, to model a beam of infinite extent. Corrosion of the reinforcement bars is represented by a local loss of thickness. Numerical case studies are presented to investigate the effects of various configurations and the severity of damage on the dispersion curves of the propagating waves. Scattering matrices are also calculated for the damage site, by coupling damaged and undamaged sections of the waveguide. Wave modes are subsequently identified for which the reflection coefficients are potentially sufficiently large to observe and use for damage identification.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 19 September 2016
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ISMA 2016 Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, , Leuven, Belgium, 2016-09-19 - 2016-09-21
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Inst. Sound & Vibration Research
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