Artificial Intelligence as an Instrumentation for a Comprehensive Analysis of Concrete Curing by Ultrasonic Method
Edouard G. Nesvijski, Alexandre Lorrenzi, Odilon P. Cavalheiro, and Marco A. Pozzobon UFSM, Centro de Tecnologia, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil
ABSTRACT Ultrasonic method is effectively applied to monitoring of concrete curing. It allows controlling such important parameters as strength, modulae of elasticity and shrinkage of concrete at laboratory and in-situ. But ultrasonic testing of real concrete structures meets some difficultiesconnected with calibration of ultrasonic equipment at laboratory and then application of the calibrated equipment in-situ. This problem often is complicated by the absence of preliminary information about material properties in structures. Until now there is no a satisfactory solution for transfer of calibration results from laboratory to real civil engineering structures. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used as an instrument for facilitation of calibration results transfer. Some new approaches to AI application for practical tasks of comprehensive analysis of concrete curing by ultrasonic method are proposed in this work.Keywords: artificial intelligence, concrete, curing, ultrasonic method.
Publication Source: NDTISS '99 - International Symposium on NDT Contribution to the Infrastructure Safety Systems, Nov 1999 in Tores Brazil.
Publisher: Center of Tecnology, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) - [Homepage]
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