TY - JOUR A1 - Powierza, Bartosz A1 - Stelzner, Ludwig A1 - Oesch, Tyler A1 - Gollwitzer, Christian A1 - Weise, Frank A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Water migration in one-side heated concrete: 4D in-situ CT monitoring of the moisture-clog-effect N2 - Explosive spalling due to fire exposure in concrete structures can lead severe damage and, in the worst case, to premature component failure. For this reason, an in situ investigation of water Migration in concrete due to surface heating was undertaken. During these experiments, a miniaturized concrete specimen within a confining and insulating double-hull was subjected to surface heating during simultaneous X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning. Through the use of subtraction-based Image analysis techniques, it was possible to observe and quantify not only drying within areas of the concrete matrix close to the heated surface, but also the migration of moisture to both pore and matrix regions deeper within the specimen. It was also discovered that the correction of CT images for specimen deformation using DVC and variable detector performance using calibrated image filters significantly improved the quality of the results. This clearly demonstrates the potential of X-ray CT for evaluation of other rapid-density-change phenomena in concrete and other building materials. T2 - 8th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT 2018) CY - Wels, Austria DA - 06.02.2018 KW - In-Situ X-ray CT KW - Digital Volume Correlation KW - Heated concrete KW - Water migration KW - Fire PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-018-0552-7 SN - 1573-4862 SN - 0195-9298 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 15, 1 EP - 11 PB - Springer US CY - New York / Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-47147 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oesch, Tyler A1 - Weise, Frank A1 - Meinel, Dietmar A1 - Gollwitzer, Christian T1 - Quantitative in-situ analysis of water transport in concrete completed using X-ray computed tomography N2 - This paper describes a novel methodology for quantitative in-situ moisture measurement without tracking agents using X-ray computed tomography (XCT). The high levels of grey-scale precision required for the measurement of moisture without tracking agents resulted in the need for an additional image calibration procedure to correct for water-related X-ray scattering and for equipment-variability related artefacts arising during in-situ testing. This calibration procedure was developed on the basis of existing principles of XCT image cor-rection. Resulting images of moisture distribution exhibit a high level of agreement with expected material behaviour. This research demonstrated that XCT can be successfully used to measure both moisture-front movement over time and changes in 3D moisture distribution within samples. This approach to moisture measurement lays the groundwork for the planned future investigation of the interaction between cracking induced by varying chemical and mechanical processes and water transport in concrete. KW - X-ray computed tomography (XCT) KW - In-situ testing KW - Water transport KW - Quantitative moisture measurement KW - Concrete PY - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-474395 SN - 1573-1634 VL - 127 IS - 2 SP - 371 EP - 389 PB - Springer Netherlands AN - OPUS4-47439 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -