Recent Research in Nondestructive Evaluation of Civil Infrastructures
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 15, Issue 3
Abstract
Assessing the condition of a structure is necessary to determine its safety and reliability. Ideally, structural health monitoring should be similar to medical health monitoring of the body. In medical health monitoring, the life signs such as pulse and blood pressure give an overall indication of the overall health of the body. This is analogous to global structural health monitoring, in which damage to the structure can be identified by measuring changes in the global properties of the structure. Once the body signs show an anomaly, we do a battery of tests to determine the cause of the anomaly. Analogously in structural health monitoring, nondestructive evaluation (NDE) can be used to determine the nature of the damage. NDE methods to determine local damage are also becoming more accepted in practice. This paper describes some of the recent and current National Science Foundation projects in this area of research. Promising areas for NDE are identified.
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 15 • Issue 3 • June 2003
Pages: 298 - 304
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Copyright © 2003 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: May 7, 2002
Accepted: Nov 6, 2002
Published online: May 15, 2003
Published in print: Jun 2003
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