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Title |
Evaluation of Debonding Defects in Railway Concrete Slabs Using Shear Wave Tomography
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Authors |
이진욱(Jin-Wook Lee) ; 기성훈(Seong-Hoon Kee) ; 이강석(Kang Seok Lee) |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.11112/jksmi.2022.26.3.11 |
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Keywords |
철도 콘크리트 궤도 슬래브; 층분리; 전단파 토모그래피; 비파괴검사 Railway concrete; Debonding; Shear wave tomography; Non-destructive evaluation |
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Abstract |
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the applicability of the shear wave tomography technology as a non-destructive testing method to evaluate the debonding between the track concrete layer (TCL) and the hydraulically stabilized based course (HSB) of concrete slab tracks for the Korea high-speed railway system. A commercially available multi-channel shear wave measurement device (MIRA) is used to evaluate debonding defects in full-scaled mock-up test specimen that was designed and constructed according to the Rheda 200 system. A part of the mock-up specimen includes two artificial debonding defects with a length and a width of 400mm and thicknesses of 5mm and 10mm, respectively. The tomography images obtained by a MIRA on the surface of the concrete specimens are effective for visualizing the debonding defects in concrete. In this study, a simple image processing method is proposed to suppress the noisy signals reflected from the embedded items (reinforcing steel, precast sleeper, insert, etc.) in TCL, which significantly improves the readability of debonding defects in shear wave tomography images. Results show that debonding maps constructed in this study are effective for visualizing the spatial distribution and the depths of the debondiing defects in the railway concrete slab specimen.
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