Use of a Piezoelectric Bender Element for the Determination of Initial and Final Setting Times of Metakaolin Geopolymer Pastes, with Applications to Laterite Soils [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 This study proposes the use of a non-destructive testing technique, based on piezoelectric bender element tests, to determine the initial and final setting times of metakaolin geopolymer pastes. (1) Background: Metakaolin geopolymer is a new eco-friendly
Janjit Iamchaturapatr +2 more
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Effect of Wave Attenuation on Shear Wave Velocity Determination Using Bender Element Tests [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Wave attenuation is a widespread physical phenomenon in most acoustic tests, but there is a scarcity of quantitative investigations into the influence of wave attenuation on the determination of shear wave travel time in bender element tests.
Yanbin Gao +3 more
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Machine learning-based pattern recognition of Bender element signals for predicting sand particle-size [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study explores the potential of integrating bender element signals with a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the particle size distribution of relatively uniform sand.
Yong-Hoon Byun +4 more
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Analysis of Bender Element signals during triaxial testing
Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2015 This paper presents and discusses three different wave propagation methods used to evaluate the shear wave velocities, Vs , computed from Bender Element (BE) analyses during triaxial testing.
David Guillermo Zapata-Medina +2 more
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Optimizing modified triaxial testing for small strain zone using local displacement transducers and bender element for cement-treated soft soil [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The settlement behavior is a common problem on the railway structure that can be optimized by applying cement-treated soil as ground restoration. However, the application of a high cement mixing content needs a proper estimation that can be achieved by ...
Akmal Putera Muhammad +3 more
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Soils and Foundations, 2021 Bender elements have been used as a non-destructive soil investigation technique by many researchers and have proven to be effective in predicting the shear strength of various soils.
Colin Hunter +2 more
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Design of a Broadband Cavity Baffle Bender Transducer
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 As low-frequency and broadband acoustic emission capability is beneficial to the detection range and acoustic communication speed of small scale autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), this type of transducer is required, especially in cases of complex ...
Zhiwei Zhao +6 more
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Finite element analysis of double resonance bender disk low frequency transducer [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 A bender disk transducer can generate low-frequency sound in a small size and light weight. But traditional bender disk transducer only works at single frequency by using first order bending mode and emits moderate levels of power. In this work, a double
Lu Wei, Lan Yu, Zhou Tianfang
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Experimental study on small-strain shear modulus of calcareous sand
Yantu gongcheng xuebao, 2022 The small-strain shear modulus is an important parameter indicating soil stiffness in geotechnical engineering. In this study, the multidirectional bender element technique is used to investigate the small-strain shear modulus of calcareous sand from ...
SHI Jin-quan 1, 2, 3, XIAO Yang 1, 2, 3, LIU Han-long 1, 2, 3, Wim Haegeman 4
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Shear modulus of hydrate bearing calcareous sand-fines mixture [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 This article presents a laboratory study on the maximum shear modulus of a THF hydrate bearing calcareous sand (CS)–fines mixture. The maximum shear modulus was inferred from the shear wave velocity measured from the bender elements installed in a ...
Ji Litong +3 more
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