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Wave propagation in damage assessment of ground anchors
PublicationThe inspection possibilities of ground anchors are limited to destructive test such as pull-out test. Guided wave propagation gives an opportunity to develop an inspection system dedicated to determine the condition of inspected element without violation of their integrity. In this paper the experimental study on wave propagation in laboratory models of ground anchors are presented. Experiments were conducted for different bonding...
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Impact force spectrum for damage assessment of earthquake-induced structural pounding
PublicationCelem artykułu jest zastosowanie spektrum siły zderzenia do szacowania zniszczeń powstałych na skutek zderzeń pomiędzy konstrukcjami budowlanymi, do których dochodzi podczas trzęsień ziemi. Wyniki analizy wskazują, iż spektrum takie może być przydatnym narzędziem przy projektowaniu konstrukcji podatnych na zderzenia. Przykłady spektrów odpowiedzi pokazują, iż zapewnienie odpowiedniej przerwy dylatacyjnej lub zgranie parametrów...
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Damage assessment during creep and fatigue of power plant steels using destructive and nondestructive techniques
PublicationOpisano wyniki badń mających na celu ocena uszkodzeń od pełzania i zmęczenia stali energetycznych z wykorzystaniem technik niszczących i nieniszczących
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Oxidative DNA damage: assessment of the role in carcinogenesis, atherosclerosis, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome1 1This article is part of a series of reviews on “Oxidative DNA Damage and Repair.” The full list of papers may be found on the homepage of the journal.
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Quantitative risk assessment of new ship designs in damage conditions
PublicationThe paper is devoted to safety of ships in damage conditions. The novel contribution of the paper is connected with a new Multi-Task ship (MT-ship) design at the preliminary stage of design. There are a few problems at the preliminary stage that should be considered. One problem is connected with if the quantitative risk-based method is a reliable and formal method for safety assessment of such the new design (MT-ship) in damage...
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Assessment of cavitation erosion damage of laser remelted the SUPERSTON alloy
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wpływ obróbki laserowej w warunkach kriogenicznych na mikrostrukturę stopu SUPERSTON po badaniach kawitacyjnych. Badania odporności kawitacyjnej przeprowadzono na stanowisku z wirującą tarczą w IMP PAN Gdańsk. Określono kinetykę ubytku masy próbek podczas testu kawitacyjnego dla stopu odlanego i nadtopionego laserowo.
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Assessment of fatigue damage of organic coatings subjected to cyclic mechanical stress
PublicationTechnika szumu elektrochemicznego od ponad 20 lat stanowi przedmiot intensywnych badań mających na celu jej praktyczne zastosowanie w monitorowaniu korozji. U podstaw omawianej metody leży odpowiednia analiza rejestrowanych symultanicznie przebiegów prądowych i potencjałowych. W zależności od użytej techniki obróbki danych uzyskane mogą być informacje dotyczące ilościowych (szybkość) i jakościowych (rodzaj zaatakowania) cech procesu...
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Assessment of damage causes of a 17 m long wind turbine blade model
PublicationThe subject matter is to verify the stiffness of the steel supporting structure and assess the causes of cracks in the 17 m long wind turbine blade model
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Assessment of damage due to earthquake-induced pounding between the main building and the stairway tower
PublicationRaporty po trzęsieniach ziemi pokazują, iż występujące podczas wstrząsów sejsmicznych zderzenia pomiędzy sąsiednimi konstrukcjami budowlanymi, lub ich częściami, mogą prowadzić do znacznych uszkodzeń lub nawet całkowitego zniszczenia konstrukcji. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest oszacowanie zakresu i intensywności zniszczeń na skutek zderzeń pomiędzy budynkiem głównym szpitala Olive View a wolnostojącą klatką schodową podczas trzęsienia...
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Urinary Measurement of 8-OxodG, 8-OxoGua, and 5HMUra: A Noninvasive Assessment of Oxidative Damage to DNA
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Assessment of technical condition and repair of steel structure elements on the example of fire damage in a warehouse building
PublicationThe paper analyses a case study on the structural assessment of warehouse building partially damaged by fire caused by external source (fire of lorries close to the building). The authors focus on the site investigations and laboratory test results prior to assessing actual condition of the structural elements. Both strengthening concept and repair procedure of a steel column are addressed here. A short literature survey in the...
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Assessment of damage to trees in the Herby Forestry District caused by glazed frosts and snow during severe weather in January 2010
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Comparison of different one-parameter damage laws and local stress-strain approaches in multiaxial fatigue life assessment of notched components
PublicationThis paper aims to compare the predictive capabilities of different one-parameter damage laws and local stress-strain approaches to assess the fatigue lifetime in notched components subjected to proportional bending-torsion loading. The tested fatigue damage parameters are defined using well-known stress-based, strain-based, SWT-based and energy-based relationships. Multiaxial cyclic plasticity at the notch-controlled process zone...
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Comparison of different one-parameter damage laws and local stress-strain approaches in multiaxial fatigue life assessment of notched components
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Ultrasound monitoring for evaluation of damage in reinforced concrete
PublicationThe paper deals with automated monitoring of damage evolution in concrete elements subjected to three-point bending tests. The monitoring is based on the nonlinear interactions of traveling ultrasonic waves with micro-crack zones inside the concrete specimens and surface-breaking cracks. The developed procedure assumes semi-continuous ultrasonic testing during the element full loading cycle and generation of the power spectral...
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Experimental bases for the rail track surface damage detection system
PublicationA diagnosis of rail surface is generally based on the classical method of direct assessment and track geometry measurements. Identification and qualification of inequality and damage on the surface rails is depend on the skills and experience person who conducting inspection. In times of increasing exploitation of railways, infrastructure managers decide to use systems supporting the assessment of technical condition of the railways....
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Spectral Finite Element Method in Condition Monitoring and Damage Detection
PublicationIt is well known that the dynamic behaviour of engineering structures may carry very important and crucial information that can be further used for the assessment of their condition as well as detection of any damage induced. The current interest in monitoring techniques based on the propagation of guided elastic waves requires that numerical techniques used for modelling the phenomena associated must shift into the realm of high...
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Damage Imaging in Lamb Wave-Based Inspection of Adhesive Joints
PublicationAdhesive bonding has become increasingly important in many industries. Non-destructive inspection of adhesive joints is essential for the condition assessment and maintenance of a structure containing such joints. The aim of this paper was the experimental investigation of the damage identification of a single lap adhesive joint of metal plate-like structures. Nine joints with different defects in the form of partial debonding...
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Diagnosis of Damage in a Steel Tank Model by Shaking Table Harmonic Tests
PublicationDiagnosis of damage in civil engineering structures has recently become an important issue in the safety assessment procedure. Among a number of different approaches, a method of measuring the changes in natural frequencies is one of the most effective indicators of global damage. It has been successfully applied to relatively small. structures, however, the tests on large structures are very difficult and the practical application...
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Damage detection in a bolted lap joint using guided waves
PublicationThe paper presents the experimental investigation of guided waves application to the condition assessment of prestressed bolted connections and a concept of new quantitative indicator. The main goal of the research was the analysis of the influence of the contact conditions changes to the characteristics of a propagating disturbance. The experimental tests were carried out for a single bolted lap joint. The excitation and acquisition...
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Diagnosis of Damage in a Steel Tank with Self-Supported Roof through Numerical Analysis
PublicationThe safety of civil engineering structures is one of the most important issues of building industry. That is why the assessment of the damage-involved structural response has recently become of major concern to engineers. Among a number of different approaches to diagnosis of damage, the method of measuring the changes in natural frequencies is considered to be one of the most effective indicators of global damage. From the practical...
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Imaging of Increasing Damage in Steel Plates Using Lamb Waves and Ultrasound Computed Tomography
PublicationThis paper concerns inspection of steel plates, with particular emphasis on the assessment of in-creasing damage. Non-destructive tests were performed on four plates, one of which was un-damaged, while the remaining three had a defects in the form of circular holes with a diameter of 2, 5, and 10 cm. Guided Lamb waves were used in the research, and the image reconstruction was performed using ultrasound computed tomography. The...
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Wave Frequency Effects on Damage Imaging in Adhesive Joints Using Lamb Waves and RMS
PublicationStructural adhesive joints have numerous applications in many fields of industry. The gradual deterioration of adhesive material over time causes a possibility of unexpected failure and the need for non-destructive testing of existing joints. The Lamb wave propagation method is one of the most promising techniques for the damage identification of such connections. The aim of this study was experimental and numerical research on...
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The method of analysis of damage reinforced concrete beams using terrestial laser scanning
PublicationThe authors present an analysis of the possibility to assess deformations and mechanisms of destructing bent reinforced concrete beams using the terrestrial laser scanning. As part of the experiments carried out at the Regional Laboratory of Construction of the Concrete Structures Division of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty at Gdansk University of Technology, the reinforced concrete beams were subjected to destruction...
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Elastic wave propagation for condition assessment of steel bar embedded in mortar
PublicationThis study deals with experimental and numerical investigations of elastic wave propagation in steel bars partially embedded in mortar. The bars with different bonding lengths were tested. Two types of damage were considered: damage of the steel bar and damage of the mortar. Longitudinal waves were excited by a piezoelectric actuator and a vibrometer was used to non-contact measurements of velocity signals. Numerical calculations...
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Modeling of event trees for the rapid scenario development
PublicationThe paper concerns the safety of ships in abnormal/damage conditions. Some conclusions following from the research associated with development of a method for safety assessment of ships in abnormal/damage conditions is presented in the paper. The method called SSAMADC (Ship Safety Assessment Method in Abnormal/Damage Conditions) is a risk-based method and is connected with application of the quantitative risk assessment QRA approach....
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APPLICATION OF QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT TO SHIPS IN EMERGENCY CONDITIONS
PublicationThe paper is devoted to safety of ships in emergency conditions. The currently valid prescriptive method of safety assessment of ships in damage conditions is included in the SOLAS 2009 Part B-2 Ch.II-1 regulations. It is devoted to the design stage and difficult to apply in operation. A possible alternative described in this paper is a method based on assessment of performance of ships and risk assessment. Type of risk evaluation...
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Failure Monitoring and Condition Assessment of Steel-Concrete Adhesive Connection Using Ultrasonic Waves
PublicationAdhesive bonding is increasingly being incorporated into civil engineering applications. Recently, the use of structural adhesives in steel-concrete composite systems is of particular interest. The aim of the study is an experimental investigation of the damage assessment of the connection between steel and concrete during mechanical degradation. Nine specimens consisted of a concrete cube and two adhesively bonded steel plates...
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Damage Control in Warships
PublicationAs a result of dynamic quantitative and qualitative developments in the maritime industry its participants face harder and harder challenges pertaining to safety of ships and navigation. Practice has shown that even very well organised fleets are harassed by emergencies and accidents that can be neither predicted nor absolutely avoided. In order to counter the occuring emergencies and accidents, and to minimize their effects damage...
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Safety assessment of a concrete viaduct damaged by vehicle impact and an evaluation of the repair
PublicationDamage to lower parts of viaducts caused by impact from under-passing high vehicles is relatively frequent. One such incident, in which a viaduct was damaged by the impact from a truck with an improperly assembled hydraulic crane, is considered in this work. The analysis is based on a detailed object damage evaluation, 3D laser scanning, and numerical simulations. The aim of the study is to accurately model the vehicle impact into...
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Development of fragility curves in adjacent steel moment-resisting frames considering pounding effects through improved wavelet-based refined damage-sensitive feature
PublicationFragility curves present useful information related to earthquake-induced probability assessment of steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) and determine the probability of the damage exceedance at different floor levels of MRFs. The review of the literature shows that most of the previous studies dealing with the fragility curves were based on conventional measures, such as spectral acceleration at the first mode period, peak...
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VIBRATION PARAMETERS FOR DAMAGE DETECTION IN STRUCTURES
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to examine how damage indicators are sensitive to changing number of frequencies and mode shapes and also to number and location of measurement points. The influence of measurement errors was also analyzed for all cases. For the analysis, those damage indicators are chosen which use changes in such modal parameters as natural frequencies and mode shapes and also differences between the curvatures of the damaged...
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Damage identification by wavelet analysis
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Damage identification by wavelet analysis
PublicationW pracy omówiono metodę identyfikacji rodzaju nieciagłości w 1 wymiarowych elementach konstrukcji wykorzystującą pomiar propagacji fali sprężystej i jej analizę metodą transformacji falkowej.
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Subdivision and damage stability of ships.
PublicationPierwszy kompleksowy podręcznik na świecie na poziomie akademickim dotyczący niezatapialności statku w ujęciu probabilistycznym, w którym za miarę bezpieczeństwa statku przyjmuje się prawdopodobieństwo przetrwania kolizji przez statek, zwane wskaźnikiem niezatapialności, względnie wskaźnikiem podziału grodziowego statku. Obejmuje zarówno zagadnienia teoretyczne jak i praktyczne, dając projektantom wykładnię stosowania obowiązujących...
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Assessment of fitness for service of Cr-Mo steel tubes in catalytic reforming charge heaters
PublicationIn this paper characteristic features of metal dusting corrosion in high temperature gas mixtures of high carbon activity in catalytic reforming units, including Continuous Catalyst Regeneration (CCR) platformer are presented. Examples of 2.25Cr-1Mo and 9Cr-1Mo steel tubes at advanced stages of metal dusting process after long-term service in charge heaters are used to prove that destructive examinations are necessary to provide...
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A framework for onboard assessment and monitoring of flooding risk due to open watertight doors for passenger ships
PublicationPost-accident safety of ships is governed by damage stability, affected by watertight subdivisions which limit accidental flooding. This is important for passenger ships with watertight doors (WTDs) often fitted in the bulkheads. Awareness of the ship flooding risk due to open WTDs and the conditions under which the associated risk level changes are prerequisites for proactive risk mitigation. Accident risk is often expressed as...
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Diagnostics of thermal processes in antenna systems of broadcast stations
PublicationDiagnostics is an important element associated with the operation of a radio antenna systems, allowing earlier detection of potential damage. Thermography is one of the diagnostic tools, which allows for non-invasive assessment of technical condition. It brings together both financial savings associated with the removal of the damage and the potential effects caused by it. The article presents an example of using a thermal imaging...
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Early models of DNA damage formation
PublicationPrzeanalizowano jedne z pierwszych modeli opisujących uszkodzenia nici DNA. Przeanalizowano uszkodzenia powstające w pojedynczych i podwójnych niciach, pod wpływem czynników fizycznych i chemicznych.
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Isotropic damage in viscoplastic flow conditions
PublicationMechanika zniszczenia jest obecnie jedną z ważniejszych gałęzi mechaniki ciał stałych. Jest cały czas rozwijającą się dziedziną nauki, która znalazła swoje zastosowania w problemach inżynierskich. W artykule zaprezentowano podstawowe informacje na temat lepkoplastyczności i jej zastosowania, koncepcję mechanicznej reprezentacji zniszczenia przez zmienną D, koncepcję naprężeń efektywnych, równania opisujące zniszczenie oraz lepkoplastyczny...
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Hypertension, Brain Damage and Cognitive Decline
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Probing Radiation Damage at the Molecular Level
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Simulation and identification of damage in bar structures.
PublicationPraca zawiera opis i testy 3 procedur badawczych dotyczących lokalizacjizniszczeń w konstrukcjach. Procedury bazują na danych modalnych jakie obiektgeneruje podczas swoich drgań tzn. częstościach własnych i postaciach drgań Badane są zmiany podatności układu, zmiany krzywizn postaci drgań i wrażli-wość częstości na założone zniszczenia. Odpowiednie procedury wiążące się ztymi trzema metodami są przestestowane na przykładzie wspornika...
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Damage repair of the double shell tank
PublicationPłaszcz wewnętrzny stalowego zbiornika dwupłaszczowego o pojemności 10000 m3 został zdeformowany w wyniku błędu popełnionego podczas próby wodnej przy odbiorze zbiornika. W referacie omówiono technologię naprawy silnie zdeformowanego płaszcza zbiornika. Stosowano roztłaczanie hydrauliczne, prostowanie mechaniczne i termiczne oraz wymianę najbardziej uszkodzonych blach.
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Optimal Sensor Placement for Damage Detection
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono dwie konfiguracje czujników PZT do detekcji uszkodzeń w płytach. Omówion zalety i wady obu konfiguracji.
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Probabilistic assessment of SMRFs with infill masonry walls incorporating nonlinear soil-structure interaction
PublicationInfill Masonry Walls (IMWs) are used in the perimeter of a building to separate the inner and outer space. IMWs may affect the lateral behavior of buildings, while they are different from those partition walls that separate two inner spaces. This study focused on the seismic vulnerability assessment of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames (SMRFs) assuming different placement of IMWs incorporating nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI)....
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Seismic damage diagnosis in adjacent steel and RC MRFs considering pounding effects through improved wavelet-based damage-sensitive feature
PublicationThis paper aims to propose complex Morlet (cmorfb-fc) wavelet-based refined damage-sensitive feature (rDSF) as a new and more precise damage indicator to diagnose seismic damages in adjacent steel and Reinforced Concrete (RC) Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) assuming pounding conditions using acceleration responses. The considered structures include 6- and 9-story steel and 4- and 8-story RC benchmark MRFs that are assumed to have...
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Application of RMS for damage detection by guided elastic waves
PublicationThis paper presents certain results of an experimental study related with a damage detection in structural elements based on deviations in guided elastic wave propagation patterns.
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On implementation of fibrous connective tissues’ damage in Abaqus software
PublicationConnective fibrous tissues, such as tendons and ligaments, in humans and animals exhibit hyperelastic behaviour. The constitution of the material of these tissues is anisotropic due to the presence of the collagen fibres, where one family of fibres is the typical case. Traumatic events and/or aging may sometimes lead to the damage of the tissue. The study of motion of affected joints or limbs is usually not permitted in vivo. This...
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Seismic damage diagnosis in adjacent steel and RC MRFs considering pounding effects through improved wavelet-based damage-sensitive feature
PublicationThis paper aims to propose complex Morlet (cmorfb-fc) wavelet-based refined damage-sensitive feature (rDSF) as a new and more precise damage indicator to diagnose seismic damages in adjacent steel and Reinforced Concrete (RC) Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) assuming pounding conditions using acceleration responses. The considered structures include 6- and 9-story steel and 4- and 8-story RC benchmark...