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Acoustic Emission Testing: Basics for Research - Applications in Civil Engineering

By Christian U. Grosse (auth.) , Christian Grosse , Masayasu Ohtsu (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2008
ISBN
3540698957, 9783540698951
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-69972-9
Open Library ID
OL12810233M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23336750 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
406\402
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering;StructuReliabilitySafety and Risk;Structural Mechanics;Acoustics;Bui

Description

Acoustic Emission (AE) techniques have been studied in civil engineering for a long time. The techniques are recently going to be more and more applied to practical applications and to be standardized in the codes. This is because the increase of aging structures and disastrous damages due to recent earthquakes urgently demand for maintenance and retrofit of civil structures in service for example. It results in the need for the development of advanced and effective inspection techniques. Thus, AE techniques draw a great attention to diagnostic applications and in material testing. The book covers all levels from the description of AE basics for AE beginners (level of a student) to sophisticated AE algorithms and applications to real large-scale structures as well as the observation of the cracking process in laboratory specimen to study fracture processes.

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