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NDT assessment of rigid pavement damages with ground penetrating radar: laboratory and field tests

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAVEMENT ENGINEERING
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 900-915

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10298436.2020.1778692

Keywords

GPR; ground penetrating radar; rigid pavements; road damages; computational models; NDT; pavement assessment; laboratory tests

Funding

  1. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) of the Spanish Government
  2. European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of the European Union (UE) [CGL2011-23621, CGL2015-65913-P]

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This article introduces the ability of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to assess cracks in rigid pavements, with laboratory and field tests conducted. The results show that GPR can accurately evaluate cracks of different sizes and materials.
Cracks in rigid pavements are a frequent and critical problem, which needs to be assessed to avoid deterioration and provide comfort and security. Control of damage requires the evaluation of cracks width and depth. Several laboratory tests were used in order to determine the ability of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in the evaluation of damage under different controlled conditions. Those tests were focused in the analysis of different crack dimensions, changing the material inside the fractures and the orientation of the antenna with respect the crack axis. Results showed that the crack width increases hyperbolae amplitude, being the thinnest crack detected with a 2.3 GHz antenna, 2 mm thick. GPR B-scans were compared to images from computational models. Additionally, a field survey provided images according to the lab tests.

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