Contact and Noncontact Ultrasonic Nondestructive Test in Reinforced Concrete Beam

Contact-type ultrasonic test is commonly used in construction industry where gel-couplant is applied to the material being tested and the transducers to assure that wave propagation will travel through without any air gaps. However, this method has disadvantages, since surface preparation is conside...

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Main Authors: Jason Maximino C. Ongpeng, Andres Winston C. Oreta, Sohichi Hirose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:Advances in Civil Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5783175