Acoustic Emission (AE) for Monitoring Stress and Ageing in Materials, Including Either Manmade or Natural Structures, and Assessing Paroxysmal Phases Precursors

Abstract

The present paper deals with records of acoustic emission (AE) typically inside a manmade structure – such as a machinery, a building, a bridge, a pipeline, a dam, a rail or road embankment. But AE monitoring can also be carried out in the field, for monitoring crustal stress, volcanic precursors, land slide hazards, etc.