Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures reviews key inspection and monitoring techniques and their applications to bridges, buildings, and other civil structures.

Features:

• Reviews key inspection and monitoring techniques and their applications to bridges, building, and other civil structures
• Demonstrates the importance of inspection and monitoring techniques for the safety of bridges, maintenance, and repair of bridges and buildings
• Explores methods for identifying problems often hidden within structures before they become serious

Contents

• Testing Steel Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete
• Alkali-silica Reaction (ASR) Testing of Corrosion in Concrete
• Acoustic Testing of Concrete
• Electrical Impedance Testing of Wood Components
• Detecting Decay in Wood Components
• Testing Timber Pine Length in Bridges
• Ultrasonic Testing of Structural Timber Components
• Digital Radioscopy Analysis of Timber Structures
• Visual Inspection Techniques for Bridges and Other Transport Structures
• Acoustic Emission Testing of Bridges
• Bridge Inspection Using Virtual Reality and Photogrammetry
• Discontinuity in Masonry Wall

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