corrosion of reinforcing steel and other embedded metals is the main cause of severe deterioration in reinforced concrete structures which subsequently imposes adverse effects on ultimate and serviceability limit state performance of the whole structure. in this paper, a new corrosion detection method for reinforced concrete beams, based on wavelet analysis is presented. to evaluate the capabil...

in this paper a new method for nondestructive testing or nondestructive evaluation is proposed for glass-epoxy composite. for this purpose, impact-echo is used to evaluate the properties of composite materials, detecting internal defects and thickness measurement. in the impact-echo method a steel ball impacts on a composite plate and generates stress waves or p-waves which will be transferred ...

Sophisticated methods have often been developed in order to analyze the structure of materials and, in particular, to explain their microstructure or to make clear internal and superficial defects, such as cracks and notches. It is known, in fact, that the properties which determine the choice of a particular material for scientific applications strictly depend on its microstructure. Moreover, ...