Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique

Buildings and infrastructures need to be maintained regularly throughout the entire of their operational life. The building structural health monitoring system is produced to prevent the occurring of hazardous incident. However, the health information of these buildings are not being recorded and re...

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Main Author:	Ng., Hui Lin
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	HD Industries Land use Labor
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81761/1/NgHuiLinMFABU2018.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.817612019-09-22T07:26:32Z Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique 2014 Ng., Hui Lin HD Industries. Land use. Labor Buildings and infrastructures need to be maintained regularly throughout the entire of their operational life. The building structural health monitoring system is produced to prevent the occurring of hazardous incident. However, the health information of these buildings are not being recorded and reported by the construction and building industry. Hence, issue of deterioration of building structural concrete in recent years had become an alarming issue that highlighted extensively throughout the world. The building infrastructure management, rehabilitation or maintenance is needed indeed to extend the service lives of these buildings, especially those historical buildings that representing the landmark for a country. As such, assessment of building structural concrete health, especially the concrete cracks are crucial for ensuring the safety and health of the building as cracks are among the earliest symptoms of concrete structure degradation. Therefore, non-destructive geotechnical technique was introduced in this study to determine the physical conditions of the concrete and visual examination was conducted for results verification purposes. In doing this, experiment was conducted by exerting hydraulic load on a reinforced concrete beam to produce cracks in precast concrete beam. Then, the common used non-destructive electromagnetic (EM) device, ground penetrating radar (GPR) with 2 GHz high frequency bi-polar antenna was employed to scan the reinforced concrete beam to detect cracks. After that, visual inspection was conducted for validation of concrete cracks on the beam. The high similarity in the radar profile obtained by GPR and numerical model proved the advantages of utilizing non-destructive technique for inspection of building structural health, where the inner structure of the concrete can be taken into granted as well in the future through refinement of the results of this study. With such new benchmark, it opens up new application for GPR in civil infrastructure maintenance and management 2014 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81761/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81761/1/NgHuiLinMFABU2018.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:92664 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Geoinformation and Real Estate
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spellingShingle	HD Industries Land use Labor Ng., Hui Lin Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique
description	Buildings and infrastructures need to be maintained regularly throughout the entire of their operational life. The building structural health monitoring system is produced to prevent the occurring of hazardous incident. However, the health information of these buildings are not being recorded and reported by the construction and building industry. Hence, issue of deterioration of building structural concrete in recent years had become an alarming issue that highlighted extensively throughout the world. The building infrastructure management, rehabilitation or maintenance is needed indeed to extend the service lives of these buildings, especially those historical buildings that representing the landmark for a country. As such, assessment of building structural concrete health, especially the concrete cracks are crucial for ensuring the safety and health of the building as cracks are among the earliest symptoms of concrete structure degradation. Therefore, non-destructive geotechnical technique was introduced in this study to determine the physical conditions of the concrete and visual examination was conducted for results verification purposes. In doing this, experiment was conducted by exerting hydraulic load on a reinforced concrete beam to produce cracks in precast concrete beam. Then, the common used non-destructive electromagnetic (EM) device, ground penetrating radar (GPR) with 2 GHz high frequency bi-polar antenna was employed to scan the reinforced concrete beam to detect cracks. After that, visual inspection was conducted for validation of concrete cracks on the beam. The high similarity in the radar profile obtained by GPR and numerical model proved the advantages of utilizing non-destructive technique for inspection of building structural health, where the inner structure of the concrete can be taken into granted as well in the future through refinement of the results of this study. With such new benchmark, it opens up new application for GPR in civil infrastructure maintenance and management
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ng., Hui Lin
author_facet	Ng., Hui Lin
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title	Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique
title_short	Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique
title_full	Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique
title_fullStr	Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique
title_full_unstemmed	Building concrete structure assessment using image-based non-destructive technique
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
granting_department	Geoinformation and Real Estate
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81761/1/NgHuiLinMFABU2018.pdf
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