Acoustic Emission and Related Non-destructive Evaluation Techniques in the Fracture Mechanics of Concrete

Dr. Masayasu Ohtsu is an adjunct professor at the Laboratory on Innovative Techniques for Infrastructures, Kyoto University, Japan and an emeritus professor of the Kumamoto University, Japan. His major research field contains applications of acoustic emission to concrete, nondestructive evaluation of concrete structures and numerical analysis of composite structures.

Damage evaluation in concrete materials by acoustic emission
Acoustic emission wireless monitoring of structures
Identification of the fracture process zone in concrete materials by acoustic emission
Acoustic emission method and electrochemical noise technique for evaluation of rebar corrosion in reinforced concrete
Seismology-based acoustic emission techniques for the monitoring of fracture processes in concrete structures
Acoustic emission monitoring and quantitative evaluation of damage in concrete beams under creep
Laboratory investigations on concrete fracture using acoustic emission techniques
Monitoring of crack propagation in reinforced concrete beams using embedded piezoelectric transducers
NDE method for rebar corrosion degree of RC structures
Estimation of concrete strength by the contrast X-ray method
Low-level acoustic emission in the long-term monitoring of concrete
Artificial neural network analysis of acoustic emission data during longtime corrosion monitoring of posttensioned concrete structures
Acoustic monitoring for the evaluation of concrete structures and materials
Multitechnique damage monitoring: application to concrete beams