Alexis Courtois

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Do you know any international study or review on available operational experiences gained on vibrating wire strain gages?

The use of vibrating strain gages is rather common to monitor the deformation of large dams, nuclear containments, bridges, tunnels and so on. These gages are embedded in concrete structure and...

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Is fiber optics sensors a promising tool for concrete structures monitoring ?

This question is put just to launch a kind of opinion poll over scientist or engineers. In fact, even people who are non-specialists in the sensing systems or in SHM but who are likely to use...

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For concrete ageing, how can we address water effects: with water content or with relative humidity?

Constitutive laws addressing concrete durability and phenomena such as shrinkage, creep, AGR and so on very often consider water influence through the introduction of a parameter related with...

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What would be the more appropriate process to speed up the drying of concrete sample?

I would like to calibrate a method to measure water content into concrete structure with TDR technique. My purpose is to monitor the weight of a 16cmx32cm concrete cylinder when drying. Because my...

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