Complex fracture on thin-wall textile reinforced cement (TRC) shells monitored by acoustic emission Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Novelly-designed thin-wall TRC shells are tested simulating service loads. The study tracks the main damage modes (cracking/interfacial delamination) using the Acoustic emission (AE) wave parameter trends and based on it, a novel multi-sensing and multi-input (experiments/simulations) methodology is built. It is shown that stronger shell curvature influences the stress field and the damage mode towards shear, something monitored by early AE ...