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With numerical and experimental analysis of concrete beams immersed in water, an active monitoring system, based on a cement-based piezoelectric intelligent module array (CPIMA), was developed to locate and quantify the underwater cracks. Time reversal (TR) of the stress wave field is accomplished to focus on the crack area through the concrete beam specimen by the system. First, a piezoelectric actuator is applied to emit the initial propagating wave, which can be reflected, attenuated, and diffracted by the crack, transmitted through water filled in the crack, as well as diffracted by the coarse aggregates. To extract the damage waveforms associated with the crack and analyze the robust time-reversal invariance under the high-order multiple scattering effect, a pair of homogeneous and heterogeneous forward finite element (FE) models is established. Then, the damage waveforms are time-reversed and re-propagated in the inverse numerical model, where an optimal refocusing is achieved on the crack that behaves as an acoustic source. Finally, the damage area is obtained in the form of the stacked energy distribution of each time step. The focus results are represented by cloud images and compared with root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) values. Numerical simulation and experiments show that this method can identify and quantify underwater cracks effectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20247318","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,21]],"date-time":"2020-12-21T01:01:08Z","timestamp":1608512468000},"page":"7318","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Time Reverse Modeling of Damage Detection in Underwater Concrete Beams Using Piezoelectric Intelligent Modules"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2672-2808","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiachen","family":"Liang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4573-4430","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chenfei","family":"Shao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3080-3854","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianming","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8169-4355","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bangbin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2300","DOI":"10.1007\/s11431-012-4907-5","article-title":"Comprehensive evaluation methods for dam service status","volume":"55","author":"Wu","year":"2012","journal-title":"Sci. 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