A scoping review of non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques in building performance diagnostic inspections

Y El Masri, T Rakha - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding building envelope thermodynamics is an essential foundation of building
sciences, mainly due to the envelope's role as a boundary layer for exterior environments …

Ultrasonic waves for materials evaluation in fatigue, thermal and corrosion damage: A review

V Marcantonio, D Monarca, A Colantoni… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mechanical properties of materials tend to deteriorate over time and thus become
responsible for cracks and malfunctions in mechanical components or civil structures. Non …

Recent trends in steel fibered high-strength concrete

AA Shah, Y Ribakov - Materials & Design, 2011 - Elsevier
Steel fibered high-strength concrete (SFHSC) became in the recent decades a very popular
material in structural engineering. High strength attracts designers and architects as it allows …

Deep long short-term memory (LSTM) networks for ultrasonic-based distributed damage assessment in concrete

I Ranjbar, V Toufigh - Cement and Concrete Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presented a comprehensive study on developing a deep learning approach for
ultrasonic-based distributed damage assessment in concrete. In particular, two architectures …

Unsupervised deep learning framework for ultrasonic-based distributed damage detection in concrete: integration of a deep auto-encoder and Isolation Forest for …

V Toufigh, I Ranjbar - Structural Health Monitoring, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study presented an unsupervised anomaly detection-based framework for distributed
damage detection in concrete using ultrasonic response signals. A deep fully connected …

Study of stress-induced velocity variation in concrete under direct tensile force and monitoring of the damage level by using thermally-compensated Coda Wave …

Y Zhang, O Abraham, F Grondin, A Loukili, V Tournat… - Ultrasonics, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we describe an experimental study of concrete behavior under a uniaxial
tensile load by use of the thermally-compensated Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI) analysis …

Study on the damage mechanism and energy evolution characteristics of water-bearing coal samples under cyclic loading

H Xie, X Li, C Shan, Z Xia, L Yu - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2023 - Springer
In this study, cyclic loading–unloading experiments on coal samples with different moisture
contents were conducted. The damage mechanism was investigated through acoustic …

Monitoring crack propagation in reinforced concrete shear walls by acoustic emission

A Farhidzadeh, E Dehghan-Niri… - Journal of Structural …, 2013 - ascelibrary.org
In the last two decades, several efforts have been made to monitor the cracking behavior in
RC structures. A technique that shows promise is acoustic emission (AE). This paper …

Efficiency and sensitivity of linear and non-linear ultrasonics to identifying micro and macro-scale defects in concrete

AA Shah, Y Ribakov, C Zhang - Materials & Design, 2013 - Elsevier
This study describes a useful contribution to the ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation of both
micro and macro-scale defects or damages induced in concrete under initial and peak level …

Online monitoring of cracking in concrete structures using embedded piezoelectric transducers

C Dumoulin, G Karaiskos, JY Sener… - Smart materials and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Online damage detection is of great interest in the field of concrete structures and, more
generally, within the construction industry. Current economic requirements impose the …