Sand/cement ratio evaluation on mortar using neural networks and ultrasonic transmission inspection |
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Authors: | Molero M Segura I Izquierdo M A G Fuente J V Anaya J J |
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Institution: | a Departamento de Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones, ETSI Telecomunicación (UPM), Spain b Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Departamento de Señales, Carretera Campo Real km 0, 200, La Poveda, Arganda del Rey 28500, Spain c Instituto Tecnológico de la Construcción (AIDICO), Parc Tecnològic, Paterna 46980, Valencia, Spain |
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Abstract: | The quality and degradation state of building materials can be determined by nondestructive testing (NDT). These materials are composed of a cementitious matrix and particles or fragments of aggregates. Sand/cement ratio (s/c) provides the final material quality; however, the sand content can mask the matrix properties in a nondestructive measurement. Therefore, s/c ratio estimation is needed in nondestructive characterization of cementitious materials. In this study, a methodology to classify the sand content in mortar is presented. The methodology is based on ultrasonic transmission inspection, data reduction, and features extraction by principal components analysis (PCA), and neural network classification. This evaluation is carried out with several mortar samples, which were made while taking into account different cement types and s/c ratios. The estimated s/c ratio is determined by ultrasonic spectral attenuation with three different broadband transducers (0.5, 1, and 2 MHz). Statistical PCA to reduce the dimension of the captured traces has been applied. Feed-forward neural networks (NNs) are trained using principal components (PCs) and their outputs are used to display the estimated s/c ratios in false color images, showing the s/c ratio distribution of the mortar samples. |
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Keywords: | 43 35 Zc 43 60 Lq 43 60 Np |
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