Acoustic emission monitoring of recycled aggregate concrete under bending

A. A. Tsoumani; N.-M. Barkoula; T. E. Matikas

doi:10.1117/12.2085512

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27 March 2015 Acoustic emission monitoring of recycled aggregate concrete under bending

A. A. Tsoumani, N.-M. Barkoula, T. E. Matikas

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Proceedings Volume 9436, Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems Integration 2015; 94360U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2085512
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

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The amount of construction and demolition waste has increased considerably over the last few years, making desirable the reuse of this waste in the concrete industry. In the present study concrete specimens are subjected at the age of 28 days to four-point bending with concurrent monitoring of their acoustic emission (AE) activity. Several concrete mixtures prepared using recycled aggregates at various percentages of the total coarse aggregate and also a reference mix using natural aggregates, were included to investigate their influence of the recycled aggregates on the load bearing capacity, as well as on the fracture mechanisms. The results reveal that for low levels of substitution the influence of using recycled aggregates on the flexural strength is negligible while higher levels of substitution lead into its deterioration. The total AE activity, as well as the AE signals emitted during failure, was related to flexural strength. The results obtained during test processing were found to be in agreement with visual observation.

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A. A. Tsoumani, N.-M. Barkoula, and T. E. Matikas "Acoustic emission monitoring of recycled aggregate concrete under bending", Proc. SPIE 9436, Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems Integration 2015, 94360U (27 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2085512

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