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Application Of Noise Cancelling And Damage Detection Algorithms In Nde Of Concrete Bridge Decks Using Impact Signals, Gang Zhang, Ronald S. Harichandran, Pradeep Ramahulli Sep 2011

Application Of Noise Cancelling And Damage Detection Algorithms In Nde Of Concrete Bridge Decks Using Impact Signals, Gang Zhang, Ronald S. Harichandran, Pradeep Ramahulli

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Delamination is a commonly observed distress in concrete bridge decks. Among all the delamination detection methods, acoustic methods have the advantages of being fast and inexpensive. In traditional acoustic inspection methods, the inspector drags a chain alone or hammers on the bridge deck and detects delamination from the “hollowness” of the sound. The signals are often contaminated by ambient traffic noise and the detection of delamination is highly subjective. This paper describes the performance of an impact-based acoustic NDE method where the traffic noise was filtered by employing a noise cancelling algorithm and where subjectivity was eliminated by introducing feature …


Anaerobic Processes For Waste Treatment And Energy Generation, Melanie L. Sattler Aug 2011

Anaerobic Processes For Waste Treatment And Energy Generation, Melanie L. Sattler

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

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Evaporation From Soils Under Thermal Boundary Conditions: Experimental And Modeling Investigation To Compare Equilibrium- And Nonequilibrium-Based Approaches, Kathleen M. Smits, Abdullah Cihan, Toshihiro Sakaki, Tissa H. Illangasekare May 2011

Evaporation From Soils Under Thermal Boundary Conditions: Experimental And Modeling Investigation To Compare Equilibrium- And Nonequilibrium-Based Approaches, Kathleen M. Smits, Abdullah Cihan, Toshihiro Sakaki, Tissa H. Illangasekare

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

In the shallow subsurface immediately below the land-atmosphere interface, it is widely recognized that the movement of water vapor is closely coupled to thermal processes. However, their mutual interactions are rarely considered in most soil water modeling efforts or in practical applications where it becomes necessary to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of soil moisture. The validation of numerical models that are designed to capture these processes is difficult due to the scarcity of field or laboratory data with accurately known hydraulic and thermal parameters of soils, limiting the testing and refinement of heat and water transfer theories. The …


Health, Transportation, And The Built Environment: Building A Roadmap For Change With Smaller Cities, Cynthia Carlson, Semra Aytur, Kevin Gardner, Shannon Rogers Feb 2011

Health, Transportation, And The Built Environment: Building A Roadmap For Change With Smaller Cities, Cynthia Carlson, Semra Aytur, Kevin Gardner, Shannon Rogers

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Presentation at the 2011 Active Living Research Annual Conference.