Abstract
Acoustic emission (AE) technique has recently become an important non-destructive tool to gain insight into the evolution of damage in materials. It is widely used as a laboratory method in material science and civil engineering. However, it has not been applied sufficiently in the field of cultural heritage, mainly due to the great variety of historic materials and limited knowledge about their physical properties. In comparison with other non-destructive techniques AE possesses some very important advantages – it is simple in application and does not require any external stimulation of the object.
In this paper a comparison of AE signals measured for different materials (stone samples, timber joist specimens) and different destructive and non-destructive processes, including mechanical tests, is presented. The proper evaluation of the results obtained in the laboratory can help to distinguish between AE signals related to material damaging and non-damaging processes. The presented work demonstrates the potential of AE as a practical tool to assess the risk of mechanical damage to historic building materials also at different moisture contents or in varying state of decay.
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This research was carried out within the Smart Monitoring of Historic Structures (SMooHS) project, supported financially by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme, Theme 6: Environment. Marcin Strojecki wishes to thank The Foundation for Polish Science for the financial support within the START Programme (2010).
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Strojecki, M., Łukomski, M., Colla, C., Gabrielli, E. (2013). Acoustic Emission as a Non-Destructive Method for Tracing Damage: From Laboratory Testing to Monitoring Historic Structures. In: Güneş, O., Akkaya, Y. (eds) Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Structures. RILEM Bookseries, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0723-8_157
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