Detecting the Defects in Concrete Components with Impact-Echo Method

Abstract:

With the large-scale application of the prestressed concrete structure, the quality of the concrete component defects and pipeline grouting has increasingly become the focus of attention. The impact-echo scanner uses the nature of wave, which pass though different media at different velocities, to distinguish internal defects of concrete, pipe filling density and so on. In this paper, using the impact-echo method to detect the concrete block with prefabricated defects of shape, location, and size explores the effect of defect properties, parameter settings and detection environment to impact-echo preliminarily and also explores the relationship of pipeline filling status and impact-echo image. Based on this study, the article raised the problem met during this non-destructive testing methods applied to engineering, and accumulated a certain amount of available engineering data. The experiment results show that using the impact-echo method to identify the defects of concrete components and to test the quality of pipeline grouting is a more convenient and effective non-destructive testing method. Especially, with the radar method in the pipeline grouting quality inspection which complement each other to make up for the shortcomings the lightning wave in case of the metal medium total reflection phenomenon, cannot detect metal pipe grouting plumpness.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 577)
• Pages: 1114-1118
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.577.1114
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Jing Liu*, Jun Xie, Xiao Yu He, Yu Shan He, Jia Hui Zhong
• Keywords: Impact-Echo Method, Imperfection, Pipeline Grouting, Prestressed Concrete

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