Contactless Ultrasonic Wavefield Imaging to Visualize Near-Surface Damage in Concrete Elements

Song, Homin; Popovics, John S.

doi:10.3390/app9153005

Title: Contactless Ultrasonic Wavefield Imaging to Visualize Near-Surface Damage in Concrete Elements

Abstract

We present work to detect and visualize near-surface damage in concrete using contactless ultrasonic wavefield imaging technology. A fully contactless ultrasonic scanning system that utilizes a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) ultrasonic microphone array is used to collect ultrasonic surface wave data from a concrete sample. The obtained wavefield data sets are processed with a frequency-wavenumber (f-k) domain wavefield filtering approach to extract non-propagating oscillatory fields set up by near-surface concrete cracking damage. The experimental results demonstrate that near-surface concrete damage can be detected and visualized using the proposed ultrasonic wavefield imaging approach.

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Publication Date:: 2019-07-26

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1545173

Grant/Contract Number:: NE0008266

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Applied Sciences

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Applied Sciences Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 2076-3417

Publisher:: MDPI AG

Country of Publication:: Switzerland

Language:: English

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                    Song, Homin, & Popovics, John S. Contactless Ultrasonic Wavefield Imaging to Visualize Near-Surface Damage in Concrete Elements.  Switzerland.  https://doi.org/10.3390/app9153005

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  title        = {Contactless Ultrasonic Wavefield Imaging to Visualize Near-Surface Damage in Concrete Elements},

  author       = {Song, Homin and Popovics, John S.},

  abstractNote = {We present work to detect and visualize near-surface damage in concrete using contactless ultrasonic wavefield imaging technology. A fully contactless ultrasonic scanning system that utilizes a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) ultrasonic microphone array is used to collect ultrasonic surface wave data from a concrete sample. The obtained wavefield data sets are processed with a frequency-wavenumber (f-k) domain wavefield filtering approach to extract non-propagating oscillatory fields set up by near-surface concrete cracking damage. The experimental results demonstrate that near-surface concrete damage can be detected and visualized using the proposed ultrasonic wavefield imaging approach.},

  doi          = {10.3390/app9153005},

  journal      = {Applied Sciences},

  number       = 15,

  volume       = 9,

  place        = {Switzerland},

  year         = {2019},

  month        = {7}

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