The Testing Scheme for Steel Corrosion in the Reinforced Concrete via Near Field Effect of Meter-Band Wave

Abstract

Abstract-This paper presents a testing scheme for the steel corrosion in reinforced concrete based on near-field effect of meter wave. The physical mechanism of the near-field method was introduced, and the structure of the measurement device was presented in detail. The electromagnetic field near the steel bar buried in the concrete structure was simulated by the finite difference time domain method. The simulated data show that the mean radiation power decreases monotonously with the increase of the corroded depth of the steel bar, and the corroded area is promising to be imaged directly due to the localization of near field. The results indicate that the near-field technique can act as a new nondestructive testing technique to detect and even image the corrosion area buried in concrete in engineering structure.

Detection of biological abnormalities using a near-field microwave microscope

“…Near-field microwave microscopy is widely used in non-destructive evaluation and characterization of materials, e.g. dielectric and metal structures [1–5], biological samples [6–8], and critical parts of buildings and constructions [9, 10]. The advantages of microwave reflectometry include low-power, real-time, and non-contact operation with high-sensitivity and high-resolution imaging of the target [11–14].…”