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1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1110 South 67th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68182, USAhbsun@unl.edu, jyzhu@unl.edu.
Abstract:
A nonlinear ultrasonic test is proposed for material damage evaluation using thermal modulation. Temperature change excites and modulates nonlinear behavior of ultrasonic waves in concrete. Coda wave interferometry was used to analyze the relative velocity change of ultrasonic wave with temperature variations. On concrete samples with different levels of thermal damage, experimental results indicate that the samples with a higher damage level demonstrated higher sensitivity to temperature variations. In addition, a slow dynamics nonlinear behavior was observed. When the temperature changed and then remained constant, the wave velocity gradually approached to its equilibrium value.
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