Fundamental Health Monitoring

Abstract

Infrastructure of a country, whether developed or developing consists many old as well as new structures like bridges, roads, tunnels, high rise buildings, water tanks, power plants, etc. and huge cost is invested to keep them in working condition without any failure. In all above mentioned structures concrete is generally most commonly used construction material. Concrete is very susceptible to a variety of environmental degradation factors like freezing and thawing, chemical, acid rains, sulfate attack, temperature etc, which tends to limit the service life of the structures. This degrading nature of concrete has brought about the need to develop the test methods to measure the in-situ materials properties for quality assurance and evaluation of the existing structure at different interval of times.