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Damage assessment of the in-service brick masonry structure using acoustic emission technique

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Most of the current researches on masonry damage assessment are qualitative rather than quantitative analysis. In this work, two acoustic emission (AE) rate process mathematical models were used to analyze the AE data during the in situ uniaxial compression test. The results showed that there was a linear correlation between AE cumulative events and the damage parameter, and the mathematical model proposed by S. T. Dai was suitable for analyzing the microcrack evolution of brick masonry material. Furthermore, the comparison of the fourth-order polynomial function and the Dai model with respect to the proportional coefficient k further demonstrated the applicability of the Dai model in damage assessment of in-service brick masonry structures.

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The authors are grateful for the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51778587, 51808510), Key Scientific and Technological Research Projects of Henan Province (192102310514), Supported by Foundation for University Young Key Teacher by Henan Province (2017GGJS005), Outstanding Young Talent Research Fund of Zhengzhou University (1421322059) and Science and technology planning project of Transportation in Henan Province (2016Y2-2, 2018J3).

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    Yanqi Wu & Shengli Li

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    Yanqi Wu & Shengli Li

  3. Kunshan Construction Engineering Quality Testing Center, Kunshan, 215337, China

    Sheng Gu & Guanghui Zhao

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Wu, Y., Gu, S., Zhao, G. et al. Damage assessment of the in-service brick masonry structure using acoustic emission technique. Mater Struct 53, 41 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-020-01475-y

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