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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 102
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
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Paper 179

Application of an Artificial Neural Network to the Evaluation of Pull-Off Adhesion of Concrete Layers

L. Sadowski and J. Hola

Institute of Building Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
L. Sadowski, J. Hola, "Application of an Artificial Neural Network to the Evaluation of Pull-Off Adhesion of Concrete Layers", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 179, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.102.179
Keywords: floors, concrete layers, interlayer bond, pull-off adhesion, non-destructive methods, artificial neural networks.

Summary
The durability of floors is determined by the pull-off adhesion of the top concrete layer to the base concrete layer. Therefore when both making and repairing floors it is vital to properly prepare the interlayer bonding surface. The measure of the inter-layer bond is the value of pull-off adhesion which in building practice is experimentally determined using the semi-nondestructive pull-off method. In this paper it is proposed to assess the pull-off adhesion by means of artificial neural networks on the basis of several parameters determined using two nondestructive test methods: the optical laser triangulation method and the acoustic impulse response method, made independent of top layer thickness.

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