Quality assurance of tunnel lining construction using ground-penetrating radar and convolution neural networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghao Zhang ◽  
Hui Qin ◽  
Zhengzheng Wang ◽  
Junwei Huang
Author(s):  
Imad L. Al-Qadi ◽  
Samer Lahouar ◽  
Amara Loulizi

The successful application of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) as a quality assurance–quality control tool to measure the layer thicknesses of newly built pavement systems is described. A study was conducted on a newly built test section of Route 288 located near Richmond, Virginia. The test section is a three-lane, 370-m-long flexible pavement system composed of a granular base layer and three different hot-mix asphalt (HMA) lifts. GPR surveys were conducted on each lift of the HMA layers after they were constructed. To estimate the layer thicknesses, GPR data were analyzed by using simplified equations in the time domain. The accuracies of the GPR system results were checked by comparing the thicknesses predicted with the GPR to the thicknesses measured directly from a large number of cores taken from the different HMA lifts. This comparison revealed a mean thickness error of 2.9% for HMA layers ranging in thickness from 100 mm (4 in.) to 250 mm (10 in.). This error is similar to the one obtained from the direct measurement of core thickness.


2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 5381-5385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Shun Pan ◽  
Lei Yang ◽  
Yuan Bao Leng ◽  
Zhi Quan Lv

Based on the ground penetrating radar's work mechanism, this article briefly introduces the working principle and the data processing method of ground penetrating radar detecting the tunnel lining. In view of the lining quality detection's characteristics, it summarizes a series of atlas reflection characteristic of the examination target such as the lining thickness, the backfill quality, the steel bar reinforcement situation, the adjacent formation structural feature and so on, and analyses and comments on them with project examples. The research believes that under appropriate working condition, as an important means to guarantee the construction security and maintain the tunnel health, ground penetrating radar technology can examine the lining quality fast and effectively, and meet the needs of the tunnel lining quality detection with suitable equipment, working method and data processing plan.


2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (10) ◽  
pp. 1129-1139
Author(s):  
Bryan Wilson ◽  
Arvind Devadas ◽  
Robert Lytton ◽  
Stephen Sebesta

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 955-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Szymczyk ◽  
Sylwia Tomecka-Suchoń ◽  
Magdalena Szymczyk

Abstract In this article a new neural network based method for automatic classification of ground penetrating radar (GPR) traces is proposed. The presented approach is based on a new representation of GPR signals by polynomials approximation. The coefficients of the polynomial (the feature vector) are neural network inputs for automatic classification of a special kind of geologic structure—a sinkhole. The analysis and results show that the classifier can effectively distinguish sinkholes from other geologic structures.


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