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http://dx.doi.org/10.14481/jkges.2017.18.2.39

A Study on the Applicability of a Cumulative Rebound Angle for the Assessment of Compressive Strength of Construction Materials Nondestructively  

Son, Moorak (Department of Civil Engineering, Daegu University)
Jang, Byungsik (Department of Civil Engineering, Daegu University)
Kim, Moojun (Department of Civil Engineering, Daegu University)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.18, no.2, 2017 , pp. 39-45 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper is to grasp the applicability of a cumulative rebound angle measured from the rebound action generated after impacting an object for the assessment of compressive strength of construction materials nondestructively and to propose the test results. For this study, an impact device was devised and used for impacting an object by an initial rotating free falling impact and following repetitive impacts from the rebound action which eventually disappears. Five types of construction materials, which are soil cement, cement paste, wood (pine tree), and two types of rock (shale and granite), were tested and both peak rebound angle and cumulative rebound angle were measured for each material by using a high-speed camera. The measured angles were compared with the directly measured compressive strength for each material. The comparison showed that for materials such as cement and rock the cumulative rebound angle, which reflects energy dissipation, rather than the peak rebound angle is more appropriate indicator for assessing the compressive strength of a material, but for a construction material such as wood which has a high toughness the magnitude of rebound is not an indicator to assess the compressive strength of a material.
Keywords
NDT; Compressive strength; Cumulative rebound angle; Energy dissipation; Impact device;
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