Effect of Thermal Loading on Selected Parameters of Reinforced Concrete Obtained by Acoustic NDT Method

Abstract

The paper presents the results of experiments carried out on test samples made from reinforced concrete. Within this experiment, concrete beams with steel reinforcement in the middle were made. The concrete samples were tested by a non-destructive acoustic Impact-echo method before and after high temperature loading (after cooling to room temperature). We focused on the dominant frequencies shift in the frequency spectra obtained by this method. The aim was to assess the ability of aforementioned acoustic method to detect the thermal damage of steel reinforced concrete.