Όνομα Συνεδρίου:8th International Conference of the Slovenian Society for Non-Destructive Testing
Non–destructive testing methods constitute a fast growing field of study that concerns various
materials. In addition to the up today bibliography a novel technique is presented here. It deals
with the use of Dielectric Spectroscopy (DS) or Impedance Spectroscopy (IS) techniques for the
verification of mechanical damages introduced in geomaterial structures. The main merit is that
these techniques do not influence the materials structure or properties, thus it can be tested with
several other methods. In this work damages are introduced in a geomaterial by uniaxial stress
application while temperature is constant. Specifically, the damage caused to marble samples
and its influence on the dielectric loss angle were measured and examined with respect to the
externally applied uniaxial stress. Results indicate that when the applied stress is capable of
leading to microcrack generation then tanδ values increase while for high values of stress, a loss
peak is evident in the studied frequency range.