“…While guided wave propagation-based techniques have been applied for many years in steel, aluminum and composite structures (e.g., Jurek et al, 2007;Rucka 2010;Żak et al, 2012), currently there is a considerable and growing interest in the use of guided waves for the evaluation of reinforced concrete structures (e.g. Chróscielewski et al, 2012;Rucka and Wilde, 2013) or rock bolt structures (e.g., Beard and Lowe, 2003;Wang et al, 2009;Zou et al, 2010;Rucka, 2013;Rucka and Zima, 2014). The methods based on propagation of ultrasonic waves are also used to assess the degree of corrosion of steel encased in concrete (Ervin et al, 2009, Lu et al, 2013 or detection of locations where delamination occurred at the border of concrete-steel (Na et al, 2003).…”