Health Index Evaluation on Acoustic Emission Signal for Concrete Structure by Intensity Analysis Method

Concrete structures have been facing several types of damage mechanisms during their lifetime. Mostly, the types are commonly defects in concretes structures are crack formations. Therefore, evaluation methods such as acoustic emission (AE) are required for assessing the deterioration on concrete structures. This paper gives a brief on the evaluations of the acoustic emission signal strength to the health monitoring of reinforced concrete structure beam. Small scale size beam have been used for this investigation and the AE signal processing are the main principal data in this work for assessing by using the statistical quantitative technique, which is known as intensity analysis (IA).This type of technique is able to quantify and evaluate the damage severity on concrete structures. Eventually, by using the AE signal strength data, the results indicates are greater instruments in determining the damage mechanism level on concretes structure.