Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method

Concrete often plays a vital role in the construction industry. The usage of concrete ranges typically from buildings, pavements, retaining walls, bridges, and other structures. The concrete’s tensile strength is only 10 % of its compressive strength. Thus, the reinforcement bar is introduced to res...

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Main Author: Aw, Samantha Jia Ying
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2021
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description Concrete often plays a vital role in the construction industry. The usage of concrete ranges typically from buildings, pavements, retaining walls, bridges, and other structures. The concrete’s tensile strength is only 10 % of its compressive strength. Thus, the reinforcement bar is introduced to resolve the low tensile strength characteristics of concrete. The subsurface cracks will form due to the corrosion of steel reinforcement. It will continue to propagate and creating a horizontal crack in the concrete. The formation of subsurface crack is not visible, and it will cause a sudden collapse of a structure. It is essential to detect the concrete’s crack and carry out appropriate action or repair to avoid the sudden collapse. The formation of crack will accelerate water and chemical substance penetration into the concrete and decrease the concrete’s strength. The non-destructive test (NDT) is a method that can carry out to examine the properties of a material without damaging it. Thus, Rayleigh wave-based noncontact method was adopted to study the correlations of Rayleigh wave properties on the concrete subsurface cracks. In this research study, 104 cases were conducted to analyze the concrete subsurface cracks with different diameters, the different depth, and the Rayleigh wave generated varies using different sizes of steel ball diameter.
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spelling utar-40782021-06-11T20:22:07Z Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method Aw, Samantha Jia Ying TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Concrete often plays a vital role in the construction industry. The usage of concrete ranges typically from buildings, pavements, retaining walls, bridges, and other structures. The concrete’s tensile strength is only 10 % of its compressive strength. Thus, the reinforcement bar is introduced to resolve the low tensile strength characteristics of concrete. The subsurface cracks will form due to the corrosion of steel reinforcement. It will continue to propagate and creating a horizontal crack in the concrete. The formation of subsurface crack is not visible, and it will cause a sudden collapse of a structure. It is essential to detect the concrete’s crack and carry out appropriate action or repair to avoid the sudden collapse. The formation of crack will accelerate water and chemical substance penetration into the concrete and decrease the concrete’s strength. The non-destructive test (NDT) is a method that can carry out to examine the properties of a material without damaging it. Thus, Rayleigh wave-based noncontact method was adopted to study the correlations of Rayleigh wave properties on the concrete subsurface cracks. In this research study, 104 cases were conducted to analyze the concrete subsurface cracks with different diameters, the different depth, and the Rayleigh wave generated varies using different sizes of steel ball diameter. 2021 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4078/1/1603579_FYP_Report_%2D_AW_JIA_YING_SAMANTHA.pdf Aw, Samantha Jia Ying (2021) Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4078/
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Aw, Samantha Jia Ying
Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method
title Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method
title_full Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method
title_fullStr Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method
title_short Analysis of Concrete Subsurface Cracks Using Elastic R-Wave Method
title_sort analysis of concrete subsurface cracks using elastic r-wave method
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4078/
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