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Developments in air-coupled testing hardware in impact-echo (IE) tests have enabled new levels of scanning tests for concrete bridge decks. A tooth gear IE system has been developed using tooth gears as impactors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Since the tooth gear moves and generates impacts itself, this system collects a large amount of test data across the field continuously. The contact duration of two different tooth gears is evaluated and the contact mechanism is compared to a conventional steel ball impactor by a high-speed camera. The data measurements were carried out on concrete slabs, where artificial delaminations were embedded at different depths. Based on our IE experiments, reducing the pitch or increasing the number of teeth was required to decrease the contact duration and generate the thickness mode frequency from deep delaminations. Rapidly obtained time domain data were transferred to the frequency-time domain using spectrograms to identify the dominant frequency band of the signal set. The results show that the developed system enabled us to acquire high-quality data during air-coupled IE tests and spectrogram analysis provided meaningful frequency information and verified its repeatability.

Application of Tooth Gear Impact-Echo System for Repeated and Rapid Data Acquisition