The CRC Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete provides a comprehensive review of the various nondestructive methods for evaluating concrete in the field and in the laboratory. The book describes the operating principles for each method presented and practical information is provided to facilitate performing the tests and interpreting the results. Test methods are divided into two broad categories. The first category includes methods intended primarily for measuring in-place strength or stiffness. These include the surface hardness, penetration resistance, pullout, breakoff, maturity, resonant frequency, pulse velocity, and combined methods. The second category includes methods intended primarily for assessing the condition of existing structures or measuring properties other than strength. These include magnetic/electrical, radioactive/nuclear, radar, stress wave propagation, infrared thermography, and acoustic emission methods. The handbook is intended for concrete technologists, engineers, and students who need the latest information regarding available methods for quality control or in-service investigations of concrete structures.
Civil engineers will value this resource that examines the tools and techniques used to estimate the in-place strength on concrete, permeation properties that relate to potential durability, and the methods used to assess the internal condition of concrete and the corrosion activity of steel reinforcement.
Civil and structural engineering consultants engaged in quality control or investigations of hardened concrete need a comprehensive resource that explains the methods of determining strength and other performance characteristics. Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete, Second Edition answers this demand by providing a thorough analysis of nondestructive testing used to evaluate concrete structures. The Handbook examines the tools and techniques used to estimate the in-place strength of concrete and permeation properties that relate to potential durability, and it also describes the methods used to assess the condition of concrete integrity and steel reinforcement. The authors of each chapter are recognized specialists in the field who have served on technical committees for nondestructive testing. The chapters discuss the basic principles of the methods and offer practical guidance for their use. Extensive mathematical derivations are kept to a minimum; instead, the Handbook refers to numerous original papers for those interested in more detailed information. The Second Edition meets your need to generate reliable estimates of mechanical properties without damaging a structure's integrity.
This book gives information on non destructive techniques for assessment of concrete structures. It synthesizes the best of international knowledge about what techniques can be used for assessing material properties (strength) and structural properties (geometry, defects...). It describes how the techniques can be used so as to answer a series of usual questions, highlighting their capabilities and limits, and providing advices for a better use of techniques. It also focuses on possible combinations of techniques so as to improve the assessment. It is based on many illustrative examples and give in each case references to standards and guidelines.
Over 8,300 pages .... Just a SAMPLE of the CONTENTS: NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION METHODS. Published by the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force on 1 March 2000 - 771 pages and June 2005 - 762 pages; Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures 1,733 pages Designing and Developing Maintainable Products and Systems - Revision A 719 pages Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes 75 pages Nondestructive Testing Acceptance Criteria 88 pages Environmental Stress Screening Process for Electronic Equipment 49 pages Handbook for Reliability Test Methods, Plans, and Environments for Engineering, Development, Qualification, and Production - Revision A 411 pages Human Engineering - Revision F 219 pages Sampling Procedures and Tables for Life and Reliability Testing (Based on Exponential Distribution) 77 pages Test Method Standard: Electronic and Electrical Component Parts 191 pages Reliability Testing for Engineering Development, Qualification and Production - Revision D 47 pages Electroexplosive Subsystem Safety Requirements and Test Methods for Space Systems (150 pages, 8.64 MB) Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment- Notice F 205 pages Reliability Program for Systems and Equipment Development and Production - Revision B 88 pages Electronic Discharge Control Handbook for Protection of Electrical and Electronic Parts, Assemblies and Equipment (Excluding Electrically Initiated Explosive Devices) - Revision B 171 pages Electrical Grounding for Aircraft Safety 290 pages Fuze and Fuze Components, Environmental and Performance Tests for - Revision C 295 pages Requirements for the Control of Electromagnetic Interference Characteristics of Subsystems and Equipment - Revision E 253 pages Maintainability Verification/Demonstration/Evaluation - Revision A 64 pages Failure Rate Sampling Plans and Procedures - Revision C 41 pages Maintainability Prediction 176 pages Definition of Terms for Reliability and Maintainability - Revision C 18 pages Semiconductor Devices 730 pages Reliability Modeling and Prediction - Revision B 85 pages Established Reliability and High Reliability Qualified Products List (QPL) Systems For Electrical, Electronic, and Fiber Optic Parts Specifications - Revision F 17 pages Environmental Test Methods and Engineering Guidelines 416 pages) Test Methods for Electrical Connectors - Revision A 129 pages Environmental Engineering Considerations and Laboratory Tests - Revision F 539 pages System Safety Program Requirements 117 pages Test Method Standard Microcircuits - Revision E 705 pages Test Method Standard Microcircuits - Revision F 708 pages Procedures for Performing a Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis - Revision A 54 pages
Concrete floors should be diagnosed in order to obtain the proper durability. Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, which have numerous advantages and are very effective for in situ testing, are recommended for this purpose. Non-Destructive Diagnostics of Concrete Floors: Methods and Case Studies offers useful NDT methods, test methodologies, and case studies. This book contains classifications of NDT methods, examines their areas of usefulness in floor diagnostics, and explains the complementarity and reliability of NDT methods as well as the need to calibrate research equipment. It presents interesting case studies of concrete floors, such as dowelled floors, floors with a top layer made of stone slabs, industrial floors, industrial floors with a top layer of polyurethane-cement, layered floors, post-tensioned floors, and cement screeds. The authors have drawn on many years of experience in both academia and the practical diagnosis of concrete floors using NDT methods.
Providing a comprehensive overview of the techniques involved in testing concrete in structures, Testing of Concrete in Structures discusses both established techniques and new methods, showing potential for future development, and documenting them with illustrative examples. Topics have been expanded where significant advances have taken place in the field, for example integrity assessment, sub-surface radar, corrosion assessment and localized dynamic response tests. This fourth edition also covers the new trends in equipment and procedures, such as the continuation of general moves to automate test methods and developments in digital technology and the growing importance of performance monitoring, and includes new and updated references to standards. The non-specialist civil engineer involved in assessment, repair or maintenance of concrete structures will find this a thorough update.
This work discusses the variations that occur in the strength of concrete and presents numerical methods useful in interpreting these variations. Individual chapters include the relationship between composition and strength of concrete.
