The Measurement of Dielectric Constant of the Concrete Using Single-Frequency CW Radar

Author

Hui Xu ; Bangyu Li ; Shaobo Xu ; Hongzhuan Feng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Shenyang Univ. of Technol., Shenyang

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

588

Lastpage

591

Abstract

In this paper, the method for measuring the complex permittivity of concrete has been proposed, and using this method the complex permittivity of concrete is measured. This method for calculating the dielectric constant of concrete is used by measuring the deflection and the loss of electromagnetic wave in concrete block for experiments. The measuring device used is a single frequency radar. Measurement process is divided into three steps: measuring attenuation factor alpha of concrete, measuring the refractive index of concrete and calculating the complex permittivity of concrete. The method is simple and feasible in practice.

Keywords

concrete; nondestructive testing; permittivity; permittivity measurement; radar receivers; refractive index; complex permittivity; concrete; dielectric constant; electromagnetic wave deflection; refractive index; single-frequency CW radar; Attenuation measurement; Concrete; Dielectric constant; Dielectric loss measurement; Dielectric losses; Dielectric measurements; Electromagnetic measurements; Loss measurement; Permittivity measurement; Radar measurements; Single-frequency CW Radar; complex permittivity; concrete;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems, 2008. ICINIS '08. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3391-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3391-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINIS.2008.139

Filename

4683295