Abstract
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs) have been increasingly employed for structural strengthening, and are attached to structures using bonding adhesives. The aim of this work is to characterize defects in the bond between CFRP and concrete (after they are located by pulse infrared thermography), and assign the defects a "numerical value" (ranging from 0 for a complete air-gap to 1 for a fully glued bond). Quantitative characterization is performed by measuring the thermal impedance, and then identifying the thermophysical parameters of the system through fitting the measured impedance to a theoretical model. An inversion procedure is carried out to estimate the unknown parameters, without prior knowledge of sample properties. In particular, it is possible to estimate more accurately both the amount of glue within a defect and the thermal contact resistance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 350-358 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Composites Part B: Engineering |
| Volume | 69 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 Feb |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The writers appreciate the financial support partially by National Research Foundation of Korea Government (NRF-2014R1A2A2A01007883).
Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- B. Debonding
- B. Defects
- D. Non-destructive testing
- D. Thermal analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ceramics and Composites
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering