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Measurement of Water Uptake of Historic Surfaces-State of the Art Review
Zíma, Pavel
In situ testing of material water uptake represents one of very basic and indispensable techniques in the conservation practice aiming different purposes. Water uptake of porous building materials used on historical constructions significantly correlated to some other materials characteristics. Capillary properties of porous materials can be measured by means of Karsten tube and modified tools of methods. A pilot prototype of one of them has been developed and tested in ITAM AS CR for measuring water absorption under low pressure. The device has output connector for linking to a computer and reading the stored data. The device was tested in laboratory as well as in situ for a basic performance. The acquired data were evaluated using software specially writen for this purpose in MatLab.
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Portable Testing Device for In-situ Testing of Building Material
Vavřík, Daniel ; Jandejsek, Ivan
Examination of brittle buildings materials using mechanical tests requires sampling of studied elements and materials (stones, bricks or concrete). In case of existing integral structures the best suitable sampling method is core drilling. It is preferred to test samples in situ in all cases where it is possible to avoid changes of the material properties during transportation and storing. Moreover it is possible to prepare other samples operationally wen some uncertainty occurred if in situ testing is possible. For such a purpose, a portable testing device has been designed and manufactured. This device is primary devoted for so called split test technique which is based on well know testing of Brazilian disk. Analytical equation used for evaluation of the split test is based on several assumptions which have to be verified. For such verification Digital Image Correlation technique was used in our work.
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Investigation of C/PPS Composites Degradation Process Using Acoustic Measurement
Fíla, Tomáš ; Valach, Jaroslav ; Kytýř, Daniel ; Šperl, Martin
The article deals with assessment of fatigue degradation of C/PPS composites using simple acoustic measurement technique. Changes in natural frequency and attenuation decrement were chosen as indicators of fatigue damage accumulation in the studied composite material. New testing device was developed for acoustic measurement. The experimental setup was designed to chime the specimen by repeatable force of stiff striker exciting a specific natural mode of vibration and to record the acoustic response of the specimen to the impact simultaneously. From the power spectral density of the signal the natural frequency was obtained. Using the same signal, the attenuation decrement was estimated from regression of the its envelope.
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