Ultrasonic Monitoring of Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete
with Top-Bar Defects

Wang, Yikuan

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Open access

Authors

Wang, Yikuan

Date

2021

Supervisor

Abhijit Mukherjee

Navdeep Dhami

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Science and Engineering

School

School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88256

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

Top-bar defects in reinforced concrete are voids that are observed below the reinforcing bars that are at an elevation of more than 300 mm, which reduces the bond strength and accelerates the corrosion process of reinforced concrete. Ultrasonic wave-based non-destructive methods have been developed to (i) detect the top-bar effect in reinforced concrete and (ii) discern and monitor the corrosion process in reinforced concrete with and without the top-bar effects.