UHF antenna design for the estimation of fiber density of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Author

Sanchez, Marta ; Pena, Ivan ; Arrinda, Amaia ; de la Vega, David ; Guerra, David ; Gil, Unai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete arises when steel fibers are included during the mixture process of the conventional concrete, improving some characteristics of the material as the resistance capacity against heavy efforts. Since this feature of the material depends on the quantity and distribution of fibers inside it, an accurate characterization of these parameters is needed. This paper describes an UHF antenna design for carrying out an estimation of the SFRC fiber density. Details of its characteristics as well as the results obtained from its use in a non-destructive measurement system of the SFRC fiber density are given in the following sections.

Keywords

UHF antennas; reinforced concrete; steel; UHF antenna; fiber density estimation; nondestructive measurement system; steel fiber reinforced concrete; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Concrete; Optical fiber networks; Steel; UHF measurements; SFRC fiber density; UHF; antenna; non-destructive method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228638