Giuseppe Lacidogna

TL;DR: In this article, the acoustic emission technique is applied to identify defects and damage in reinforced concrete structures and masonry buildings and a particular methodology has been put forward for crack propagation monitoring and damage assessment, in structural elements under service conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a statistical interpretation for the variation of the b-value during the evolution of damage, based on a treatment originally proposed by Carpinteri A. The proposed model captures the transition from the condition of criticality, in which α = 3, to that of imminent failure, characterized by α = 2, in terms of damage localisation.

TL;DR: The proposed method with two stages to select proper variables, simplify parameter settings, and predict HPCCS shows a strong generalization capacity, and the prediction performance of the model is better when the input variables are expressed as absolute mass.

TL;DR: In this paper, an improved approach based on the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) is proposed to provide more reliable onset time determination of acoustic emission (AE) signals.

TL;DR: A non-destructive method based on the acoustic emission (AE) technique has proved to be highly effective to assess and measure the damage phenomena taking place inside a structure subjected to mechani- cal loading as discussed by the authors.