The techniques to make assessment of the structural integrity of concrete structures include infrared thermagraphy, GPR using the reflection of the electromagnetic wave, ultrasonic test, seismic methods using the propagation of elastic wave, and etc. ...
The techniques to make assessment of the structural integrity of concrete structures include infrared thermagraphy, GPR using the reflection of the electromagnetic wave, ultrasonic test, seismic methods using the propagation of elastic wave, and etc. These method alone is not enough to evaluate parameters required for the assessment. In this study, a new seismic method was proposed to improve the existing methods and to provide and additional information like stiffness of concrete. The proposed method comes from the improvement of the impact echo test, and is called the modified impact echo method (ModIE). To verify the validity of the proposed method, a large scale model of a tunnel concrete liner was built and the proposed method was applied to the center of the model and also to the corner of the model which has several distinct reflection boundaries.