Reflection characteristics of two parallel reinforced concrete slabs

Author

Parsa, Armin ; Caloz, Christophe

Author_Institution

Poly-Grames Res. Center, Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montreal, QC

fYear

2009

fDate

23-27 March 2009

Firstpage

2296

Lastpage

2299

Abstract

The reflection characteristics of two parallel reinforced concrete slabs are investigated. The reinforced concrete is modeled by an array of metallic circular rods embedded inside a lossy dielectric material using a two dimensional method of moments and multilayer Green´s functions (MoM-MGFs). The reinforcement metallic rods inside the concrete slabs are assumed to be electrically thick. They are modeled by an array of thin wires subject to the ldquosame surface areardquo rule of thumb. The results are compared with those of a single slab and the effect of multiple reflections between the slabs is discussed.

Keywords

Green´s function methods; dielectric materials; method of moments; reinforced concrete; rods (structures); slabs; lossy dielectric material; metallic circular rods; method of moments; multilayer Green´s functions; reflection characteristics; two parallel reinforced concrete slabs; Concrete; Dielectric losses; Dielectric materials; Green´s function methods; Moment methods; Nonhomogeneous media; Reflection; Slabs; Thumb; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4753-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-00-024573-2

Type

conf

Filename

5068075