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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2012, Article ID 693082, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/693082 Research Article Development of a Nondestructive Impulse Device and Damage Model for Unreinforced Concrete Shane D. Boone, Paul J. Barr, James A. Bay, and Marvin W. Halling Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, 4110 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84332-4110, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Paul J. Barr, paul.barr@ Received 4 November 2011; Accepted 15 January 2012 Academic Editor: Shenfang Yuan Copyright © 2012 Shane D. Boone et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Unconstrained compression waves were measured using a newly developed, nondestructive, short impulse excitation device de- veloped for long-term structural health monitoring. The measurements, using this innovative device, were used to determine the variation in the first longitudinal modal frequency as a function of loading magnitude and loading cycles to failure of various con- crete mixes. Longitudinal frequency and cumulative energy variations were found to be a function of concrete compressive strength. These results imply that higher-strength concrete more easily absorbs energy and restricts the growth of microcracks. Based on the results, a new damage model is proposed that was shown to correlate with measured values to within 7%. This pro- posed model was found to have a closer correlation than Miner’s hypothesis and damage index models from other reviewed re- search. 1. Introduction