Non-contact excitation of fundamental resonance frequencies of an asphalt concrete specimen
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Summary, in English
Impact hammer and non-contact speaker excitation were applied to an asphalt concrete, a PVC-U and a concrete specimen to measure the fundamental longitudinal resonance frequency at different strain levels. The impact and the noncontact excitation methods resulted in similar resonance frequencies for the undamaged asphalt concrete and for the PVC-U specimen. However, the two excitation approaches gave different results for the concrete specimen, which was shown to have a nonlinear response to increasing strain levels. A reduction and a following recovery of the resonance frequency of the asphalt concrete were shown after the specimen was exposed to a small amount of damage. However, no fast nonlinear dynamics were observed for the asphalt concrete through the speaker measurements.
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Pages
1401-1408
Publication/Series
AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume
1650
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Topic
- Civil Engineering
Conference name
41st Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
Conference date
2014-07-20 - 2014-07-25
Status
Published