Crack detection in reinforced concrete beam by use of distributed Brillouin fiber sensor

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunshu Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyi Bao ◽  
Wenhai Li ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Amre Deif ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Fiber Sensor

scholarly journals Crack Detection of Reinforced Concrete Structures Based on BOFDA and FBG Sensors

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinghua Zhang ◽  
Ziming Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Concrete Structures ◽  
Lower Surface ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Structures ◽  
Surface Cracks ◽  
Fbg Sensors

Reinforced concrete structural elements, as an important component of buildings and structures, require inspection for the purposes of crack detection which is an important part of structural health monitoring. Now existing crack detection methods usually use a single technology and can only detect internal or external cracks. In this paper, the authors propose a new sensing system combining BOFDA (Brillouin optical frequency-domain analysis) and FBG (fiber Bragg grating) technology, which are used to detect internal and surface cracks and their development in reinforced concrete structures, and an attempt is made to estimate the width of surface cracks. In these experiments, a special reinforced concrete beam structure was designed by the author for crack detection under load. Four continuous distributed optical fibers are fixed on the steel skeleton, which is located within the reinforced concrete beam. Three FBG sensors are fixed on the lower surface of the beam, near its centre. By analysing the sensor data, it can be found that the BOFDA-distributed fiber can be used to detect internal cracking before surface cracking, and the difference between scans can be used to judge the time of onset of internal cracking, but the relative error in position is about 5%, while the FBG sensor can detect the cracking time of microcracks on the lower surface in near-real-time and can be used to calculate the crack width. Through the experiment, it is found that if the combination of BOFDA and FBG technology is adopted, we can initially use the strain data obtained by multiple groups of BOFDA monitoring to predict the general location of the internal cracks, then to monitor the exact location of the surface cracks by FBG in the medium term, and to estimate the width of the final expansion of the cracks finally.

On-Site Determination of the Polarization Resistance in a Reinforced Concrete Beam

CORROSION ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 761-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Feliu ◽  
J. A. Gonzalez ◽  
C. Andrade ◽  
V. Feliu
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Polarization Resistance ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam

Analysis of reinforced concrete beam with small fibre

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlina Mateckova ◽  
Zuzana Marcalikova ◽  
David Bujdoš ◽  
Marie Kozielova
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Small Fibre

Evaluation of Severely Damaged Reinforced Concrete Beam Repaired with Epoxy Injection using Acoustic Emission Technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 102890
Author(s):  
Soffian Noor Mat Saliah ◽  
Noorsuhada Md Nor ◽  
Noorhazlinda Abd Rahman ◽  
Shahrum Abdullah ◽  
Mohd Subri Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Emission ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Acoustic Emission Technique

scholarly journals Toward Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures Based on Self-Sensing Concrete Nanocomposites: A Validation in a Reinforced-Concrete Beam

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego L. Castañeda-Saldarriaga ◽  
Joham Alvarez-Montoya ◽  
Vladimir Martínez-Tejada ◽  
Julián Sierra-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Direct Current ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Electrical Resistance ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Structural Member ◽  
Rc Beam ◽  
Electric Resistance

AbstractSelf-sensing concrete materials, also known as smart concretes, are emerging as a promising technological development for the construction industry, where novel materials with the capability of providing information about the structural integrity while operating as a structural material are required. Despite progress in the field, there are issues related to the integration of these composites in full-scale structural members that need to be addressed before broad practical implementations. This article reports the manufacturing and multipurpose experimental characterization of a cement-based matrix (CBM) composite with carbon nanotube (CNT) inclusions and its integration inside a representative structural member. Methodologies based on current–voltage (I–V) curves, direct current (DC), and biphasic direct current (BDC) were used to study and characterize the electric resistance of the CNT/CBM composite. Their self-sensing behavior was studied using a compression test, while electric resistance measures were taken. To evaluate the damage detection capability, a CNT/CBM parallelepiped was embedded into a reinforced-concrete beam (RC beam) and tested under three-point bending. Principal finding includes the validation of the material’s piezoresistivity behavior and its suitability to be used as strain sensor. Also, test results showed that manufactured composites exhibit an Ohmic response. The embedded CNT/CBM material exhibited a dominant linear proportionality between electrical resistance values, load magnitude, and strain changes into the RC beam. Finally, a change in the global stiffness (associated with a damage occurrence on the beam) was successfully self-sensed using the manufactured sensor by means of the variation in the electrical resistance. These results demonstrate the potential of CNT/CBM composites to be used in real-world structural health monitoring (SHM) applications for damage detection by identifying changes in stiffness of the monitored structural member.

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