FraMCoS 9 2016 Berkeley, California, USA

Fatigue Crack Propagation in Plain Concrete Beams by Acoustic Emission Technique

Fatigue crack growth in plain concrete specimens subjected to constant amplitude cyclic loading is studied. Acoustic Emission (AE) technique has been used to monitor the fatigue crack propagation. Three different sizes of geometrically similar beam specimens are prepared and are…

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Abstract

Fatigue crack growth in plain concrete specimens subjected to constant amplitude cyclic loading is studied. Acoustic Emission (AE) technique has been used to monitor the fatigue crack propagation. Three different sizes of geometrically similar beam specimens are prepared and are tested under three point bending (TPB) in a closed loop servo-controlled testing machine. The data such as load, displacement and CMOD from the testing of specimen for fatigue are acquired in a data acquisition systemsand crack growthiscontinuouslymonitoredusingsixAEsensorsmountedonthe specimen. TheCMODcompliancesatdifferentcyclesaremeasuredfromtheload-CMODcurvesand the equivalent fatigue crack lengths are determined using the compliance calibration curve obtained from FE analysis. AE parameters such as events, counts and absolute energy are used to analyze the crack growth.