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The corrosion damage of rebars is a leading cause of structural failure in reinforced concrete structures. Timely detection and evaluation of corrosion damage are crucial for ensuring structural safety. The self-magnetic flux leakage (SMFL) technology is often used due to its unique advantages in detecting corrosion damage of rebars. However, challenges persist in theoretically characterizing corrosion damage and exploring influencing factors. Therefore, the magnetic dipole theory model coupled with multiple-shaped defects is proposed and the influence of corrosion expansion force on the detection of corrosion damage is analyzed. The results show that the standard deviation of the magnetic field intensity induced by corrosion varied by up to 833%, while that induced by corrosion expansion force did not exceed 10%. So the changes in the SMFL field induced by corrosion damage play the dominant role and the influence of corrosion expansion force can be ignored. In addition, corrosion damage experiments on reinforced concrete based on the SMFL technology were conducted. The results indicate that the SFML curves of rebars change monotonically with the increasing corrosion degree. Significant variations in the curves correspond well with the locations of severe corrosion on the rebars. There is a positive relationship between the proposed magnetic parameters and the corrosion degree of the rebars. Furthermore, a corrosion damage evaluation model considering multiple parameters is developed to predict the corrosion degree of rebars. The prediction results demonstrate high accuracy, with an average absolute error of only 8.33%, which is within 10%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accurate measurement of the stress in steel structures is crucial for structural health monitoring. To achieve this goal, a novel technique, the laser ultrasonic technique, was used in absolute stress measurement in this study. The feasibility of this technique has been verified through theoretical analysis and finite element (FE) analysis. A stress measurement experiment in steel specimens was conducted and the relationship between ultrasonic relative wave velocity and stress was explored. The results revealed that there is a similar linear correlation between the ultrasonic relative wave velocity and absolute stress. The stress can be obtained based on ultrasonic relative wave velocity. According to the stress measurement results, it was found that the absolute error between the measured stress and theoretical stress was largest when the stress level was low, and that the measured error of stress gradually decreased with increases in the applied stress. The relative error between the measured stress and the theoretical stress was within 10% when the stress was higher than 100 MPa. This further verifies the reliability of the laser ultrasonic technique under high-stress conditions. Additionally, the impact of temperature and surface roughness on stress measurement was analyzed. The stress error in stress measurement increased similarly linearly with the increase in temperature and increased non-linearly with the increase in roughness. The corresponding compensation methods were proposed to effectively improve the accuracy of measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]