During concrete pavement construction, comprehensive information on strength development is necessary for knowledgeable scheduling decisions. To improve in situ estimation, nondestructive tests can be combined to maximize available and increase collection efficiency. Ultrasonic testing has a higher accuracy estimation early age the external device allows more data easily collected, while maturi...

This is a study of the possibilities of a qualitative evaluation of protective materials with active thermography. It presents a simulation of a periodic excitation of a multilayer composite material. Tests were conducted with lock-in thermography on Kevlar composite consisting of 16 layers of Kevlar fabric reinforced with formaldehyde resin with implanted delamination defects. Lock-in thermogr...

Fibers have been considered an effective material that was used to improve the concrete's weak properties, namely its tensile strength, ductility, and crack resistance. Thus, current study highlights two major objective, former is fibers shapes types on mechanical properties of fresh hardened concrete while latter explores impact fiber contents developments. To achieve these targets six (five t...

A method based on Fisher Information from sensitivity matrix is presented for sensor placement in nondestructive tests used for parameter estimation and structural model updating using sparse and noisy measurements. This method can be used for both static and modal nondestructive tests but in this paper sensor placement for only the static nondestructive data is presented. An error function tha...

Fracture tests on hot-pressed silicon nitride containing several types of inclusions have been conducted. Fracture models pertinent to each inclusion type have been proposed and correlated with the data. The resultant fracture probability relations are one of the key inputs to accept/reject decisions for nondestructive failure prediction.

one of the nondestructive methods for assessing the internal quality of some fruits is the processing and analyzing the sound signals generated by an impact on the fruit. in this regard determining the location and the suitable impact levels for a certain fruit is required. in this study, the selected crimson sweet variety of watermelon was used for the acoustic tests by imposing the impact for...

Acoustic emission tests are highly relevant among nondestructive tests applied in equipment for the petroleum industry. This paper presents methodologies for the classification of acoustic emission patterns obtained in tests to identify propagation of defects in pressurized tubes. This work is a continuation of previous research. However, to estimate the accuracy of the classification and give ...