Image created by stack imaging spectral amplitudes based on the impact-echo (SIBIE) method is largely one-dimensional because a single frequency domain spectrum for wave reflected below a single point of impact is used to create the image. The method has limitations for representing defects in a cross section of a concrete structural element using two-dimensional coordinates. This study focused on defect detection and visualization in a concrete structural element using multiple impacts and accumulated SIBIE. An impactor was used to induce energy at multiple points at positioned at prescribed intervals along the structural element. A modified SIBIE method was applied to the collected data of each point and the modified SIBIE images were accumulated to generate one image (an accumulated SIBIE image). As a result, the defect positions could be represented in the cross section of the structural element using a two-dimensional coordinate system.

• Lee, Sanghun(Member, Tohoku Gakuin University, Dept. of Civil and Environ. Eng., Associate Professor) | 이상훈
• Endo, Takao(Tohoku Gakuin University, Dept. of Civil and Environ. Eng., Professor) | 엔도타카오
• Kagaya, Makoto(Akita University, Dept. of Civil Eng., Professor) | 카가야마코토
• Sugawara, Takashi(Hachinohe National College of Technology, Professor) | 스가와라타케시