Concrete structure deterioration determination method, device and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12163946-B2
Application number	US-202017913150-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2020
Priority date	Mar 26, 2020
Publication date	Dec 10, 2024
Grant date	Dec 10, 2024

Abstract

An assessment device ( 1 ) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit ( 10 ) that determines a first period corresponding to a shortest period until deterioration of a concrete structure due to an aging-induced deterioration cause appears and a second period shorter than the first period and corresponding to a longest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to a material-induced deterioration cause appears and an assessment unit ( 20 ) that assesses that a deterioration causing material is used in a concrete structure having, in a checking result indicating a period elapsed from construction of the concrete structure and the presence or absence of deterioration in the concrete structure, the deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the second period and is shorter than the first period.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for assessing a presence of a deterioration causing material used in a concrete structure and causing deterioration therein, the method comprising:
determining a first period corresponding to a shortest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to an aging-induced deterioration cause appears and a second period shorter than the first period and corresponding to a longest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to a material-induced deterioration cause appears; and
assessing that the deterioration causing material is used in a concrete structure having, in a checking result indicating a period elapsed from construction of the concrete structure and presence of deterioration in the concrete structure, the deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the second period and is shorter than the first period.

2. The computer implemented method according to claim 1 , wherein,
the assessing further comprises assessing the deterioration causing material is not used in both of a concrete structure having no deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the first period and a concrete structure having no deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the second period and is shorter than the first period.

3. The assessment method according to claim 1 , wherein,
the determining further comprises:
for each of a plurality of the aging-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears;
determining the shortest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual aging-induced deterioration causes as the first period;
for each of a plurality of the material-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears is predicted; and
determining the longest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual material-caused deterioration causes as the second period.

4. An assessment device for assessing the presence or absence of a deterioration causing material used in a concrete structure and causing deterioration therein, the device comprising a processor configured to execute a method comprising:
determining a first period corresponding to a shortest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to an aging-induced deterioration cause appears and a second period shorter than the first period and corresponding to a longest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to a material-induced deterioration cause appears; and
assessing that the deterioration causing material is used in a concrete structure having, in a checking result indicating a period elapsed from construction of the concrete structure and presence of deterioration in the concrete structure, the deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the second period and is shorter than the first period.

5. A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing computer-executable program instructions that when executed by a processor cause a computer to execute a method comprising:
determining a first period corresponding to a shortest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to an aging-induced deterioration cause appears and a second period shorter than the first period and corresponding to a longest period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to a material-induced deterioration cause appears; and
assessing that the deterioration causing material is used in a concrete structure having, in a checking result indicating a period elapsed from construction of the concrete structure and presence of deterioration in the concrete structure, the deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the second period and is shorter than the first period.

6. The computer implemented method according to claim 1 , wherein the deterioration includes a crack.

7. The computer implemented method according to claim 1 , wherein the deterioration causing material used in the concrete structure is represented by a ratio of sea sand in use.

8. The computer implemented method according to claim 2 , wherein, the determining further comprises:
for each of a plurality of the aging-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears;
determining the shortest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual aging-induced deterioration causes as the first period;
for each of a plurality of the material-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears is predicted; and
determining the longest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual material-caused deterioration causes as the second period.

9. The assessment device according to claim 4 , wherein
wherein, the assessing further comprises assessing the deterioration causing material is not used in both of a concrete structure having no deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the first period and a concrete structure having no deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the second period and is shorter than the first period.

10. The assessment device according to claim 4 , wherein the determining further comprises:
for each of a plurality of the aging-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears;
determining the shortest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual aging-induced deterioration causes as the first period;
for each of a plurality of the material-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears is predicted; and
determining the longest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual material-caused deterioration causes as the second period.

11. The assessment device according to claim 4 , wherein the deterioration includes a crack.

12. The assessment device according to claim 4 , wherein the deterioration causing material used in the concrete structure is represented by a ratio of sea sand in use.

13. The assessment device according to claim 9 , wherein the determining further comprises:
for each of a plurality of the aging-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears;
determining the shortest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual aging-induced deterioration causes as the first period;
for each of a plurality of the material-induced deterioration causes, predicting a period until deterioration of the concrete structure due to the deterioration cause appears is predicted; and
determining the longest one of the periods predicted for the plurality of individual material-caused deterioration causes as the second period.

14. The computer-readable non-transitory recording medium according to claim 5 , wherein, the assessing further comprises assessing the deterioration causing material is not used in both of a concrete structure having no deterioration and the period elapsed from the construction which is not shorter than the first period and a c

Assignees

• Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Inventors

• Kasahara Hisatoshi
• Takeuchi Yosuke
• Okamura Yosuke
• Tamamatsu Junichiro

Classifications

• G01M99/00

  Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G01N17/00

  Investigating resistance of materials to the weather, to corrosion, or to light · CPC title

• G01N33/383 Primary

  Concrete or cement · CPC title