摘要: |
Shear wave velocity measurement of geomaterials using bender element has been used widely in geotechnical engineering during the last decades. The shear wave velocity, or the stiffness of a freshly casted concrete will also change significantly from close to zero to 1300- 2000 mjs. However, monitoring of the lateral pressure, instead of S-wave velocity, was currently adopted as the standard method. The first objective of this proposal is to use bender element as a new monitoring tool to monitor the curing process of a concrete. The second objective of this proposal is to use S-wave velocity as a tool to predict the strength of the early (1 or 3 days) strength of a freshly-casted concrete using correlation between these two quantities. |