Monitoring of Corrosion-Induced Degradation in Prestressed Concrete Structure Using Embedded Piezoceramic-Based Transducers

• Published in: IEEE sensors journal Vol. 17; no. 18; pp. 5823 - 5830
• Main Authors: Jiang, Tianyong, Kong, Qingzhao, Peng, Zhong, Wang, Lei, Dai, Lizhao, Feng, Qian, Huo, Linsheng, Song, Gangbing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 15.09.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Above ground tanks; Beams (structural); Concrete; Concrete structures; Corrosion; Corrosion products; Corrosion rate; corrosion-induced crack; Degradation; Fracture mechanics; lead zirconate titanate (PZT); Monitoring; Prestressed concrete; Prestressed concrete beam; Sensors; Signal processing; smart aggregate (SA); Steel; Stress; Stress corrosion cracking; Stress propagation; Surface cracks; Tanks; Time domain analysis; Transducers; Warning; Wave propagation; Wavelet analysis; wavelet packet analysis

Corrosion-induced cracking in prestressed concrete elements has been one of the most dominant factors that can cause the deterioration of concrete structures. Since most of the corrosion-induced cracks in their early age are invisible, qualitative and quantitative estimation of the corrosion-induced...