Get a Closer Look at Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c26335) has announced the addition of Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures to their offering The safety, maintenance and repair of bridges and buildings depend on effective inspection and monitoring techniques. These methods need to be able to identify problems often hidden within structures before they become serious. This important collection reviews key techniques and their applications to bridges, buildings and other civil structures. The first group of chapters reviews ways of testing corrosion in concrete components. Given their continuing importance and vulnerability to decay, the next series of chapters describes ways of testing wood components within civil structures. A final group of chapters looks at visual and acoustic techniques and their use to assess bridges in particular. 'Inspection and monitoring techniques for bridges and civil structures' will be an invaluable reference for civil engineers involved in safety inspection, maintenance and repair of bridges and civil structures. Key Features: - Reviews key inspection and monitoring techniques and their applications to bridges, building and other civil structures - Edited by a leading authority in the field Topics covered include: - Testing steel corrosion in reinforced concrete reinforced concrete Concrete in which steel is embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces. The reinforcing steel—rods, bars, or mesh—absorbs the tensile, shear, and sometimes the compressive stresses in a concrete - Alkali-silica reaction (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ) testing of corrosion in concrete - Acoustic testing of concrete - Electrical impedance electrical impedance Opposition that a circuit presents to electric current. It includes both resistance and reactance. Resistance arises from collisions of the current-carrying charged particles with the internal structure of the conductor. testing of wood components - Detecting decay in wood components - Testing timber pile length in bridges - Ultrasonic testing In ultrasonic testing, very short ultrasonic pulse-waves with center frequencies ranging from 0.1-15 MHz and occasionally up to 50 MHz are launched into materials to detect internal flaws or to characterize materials. of structural timber components - Digital radioscopy radioscopy /ra·di·os·co·py/ (ra?de-os´kah-pe) fluoroscopy. ra·di·os·co·py n. See fluoroscopy. radioscopy fluoroscopy. analysis of timber structures - Visual inspection techniques for bridges and other transport structures - Acoustic emission testing Acoustic Emission (AE) is a naturally occurring phenomenon whereby external stimuli such as mechanical loading generate sources of elastic waves. AE occurs when a small surface displacement of a material is produced. of bridges - Bridge inspection using virtual reality and photogrammetry photogrammetry: see aerial and satellite photography. - Discontinuity in masonry wall For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c26335 |
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