Ground Penetrating Radar (also known as Ground Radar, GPR, Impulse Radar Ground Probing Radar, Sub-surface Radar and Surface Penetrating Radar) was originally developed for mapping geological features. It really is now increasingly used being an NDT survey technique in Civil Engineering and will be offering a distinctive non-invasive and non-destructive opportinity for the characterisation of the subsurface and subsurface features.
Ground Penetrating Radar surveys can be used on a wide variety of materials, most commonly soil, concrete, masonry and asphalt.
Ground Penetrating Radar Applications
The list following of Ground Penetrating Surveys provided by Sandberg demonstrates a few of the more prevalent GPR applications for the construction industry:
Construction detail surveys: A Ground Penetrating Radar survey can determine the overall construction arrangement, including changes in material type, location of structural steelwork and layer thickness.
Concrete mapping surveys: Ground Penetrating Radar can be used to inspect concrete floors, walls, decks, slabs, tunnels, balconies, warehouses and garages. GPR Surveys Gloucester could locate and map rebar, tendons and conduits at an increased resolution and at greater depths than almost every other survey methods.
Chimney flue location surveys: Ground Penetrating Radar supplies a quick and non-intrusive approach to locating and mapping chimney flues. The results can either be marked-up on-site or CAD drawings.
Floor slab surveys: An instant method of determining general slab construction detail, including reinforcement distribution and slab thickness. Ground Penetrating Radar can also detect voids below slabs and map their extent, thereby identifying potential problems in heavily trafficked slabs, such as warehouses before failure occurs.
Embedded steel location: surveys to find embedded steel in masonry. Particularly suitable for the characterisation of historical and listed buildings as a result of survey being non-intrusive.
Roads, runways and pavement surveys: GPR can determine pavement thickness (asphalt and concrete), detect voids within the road pavement, identify de-bonding between layers and determine layer thickness.
Buried object location: Ground Penetrating Radar survey must locate underground storage tanks (UST), grave location, forensic investigations and a wide variety of other buried objects.
Utility surveys: Ground Penetrating Radar may be the only non-destructive technology that may identify non-metallic and metallic subsurface utilities. It really is suitable for the location of services including water, sewer, gas, electric, telephone and fibre optic.
Hazardous waste: Having successfully located buried pipes, drums and underground storage tanks, Ground Penetrating Radar can, beneath the right conditions, be utilized to identify the extent of any leakage and contamination.
Foundation investigation surveys: Ground Penetrating Radar is really a useful tool for the positioning, investigation and determination of the extent of footings and foundations.