Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 195, 2018
The 4th International Conference on Rehabilitation and Maintenance in Civil Engineering (ICRMCE 2018)
|
|
---|---|---|
Article Number | 02026 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Structural Engineering | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819502026 | |
Published online | 22 August 2018 |
The study of ultrasonic pulse velocity on plain and reinforced damaged concrete
1
Postgraduate Program of Civil Eng., Mataram University, Jl. Majapahit 62 Mataram, Indonesia
2
Postgraduated student of Civil Eng. Postgrad. Study Program, Mataram University, Indonesia
3
Graduate School Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
* Corresponding author: nkencanawati@unram.ac.id
An ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) test is often applied to determine the quality of concrete structures. It is well known that there are several factors which can influence the reading of ultrasonic velocity in concrete. One of the factors is the presence of steel reinforcement. Therefore, this paper is intended to evaluate the ultrasonic pulse velocity propagation either in plain or reinforced damaged concrete. A study on sound concrete is also provided as a comparison. Three mixes of concrete were provided, with 25 MPa, 35 MPa, and 45 MPa target compressive strengths. The specimens were 200x200x200 mm cube concrete specimens and 100x150x1100 mm reinforced concrete beam specimens. Each specimen was examined for velocity readings in sound and damaged concrete (25% and 50% of maximum load). In all concrete grades of both plain and reinforced concrete, the ultrasonic velocity decreases as the damage level increases. During intact conditions, the velocity of reinforced concrete is around 4.5% higher than that of plain concrete. However, damaged reinforced concrete has a lower velocity than plain damaged concrete. Furthermore, a new equation for predicting ultrasonic pulse velocity in reinforced concrete is proposed.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.