3d Ground Penetrating Radar for Non-Invasive Large-Scale Tank Investigation

Author(s):  
L. Guireli Netto ◽  
V.L. Galli ◽  
P. Del Gaudio Orlando
Author(s):  
Hamed Faghihi Kashani ◽  
Carlton L. Ho ◽  
Charles P. Oden ◽  
Stanley S. Smith

In recent years there has been an increase in the knowledge of, and need for, non-invasive monitoring of ballast in order to identify the problematic sections of track and decrease the maintenance cost. Various technologies such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) are becoming accepted for investigating the condition of ballast. However since these techniques were not originally developed for engineering applications, their applicability in ballast evaluations can be sometimes uncertain. Continued empirical studies and condition specific calibrations are needed to demonstrate repeatable and quantifiable results. In this study large-scale track models with trapezoidal section area were constructed at the University of Massachusetts to investigate the effects of breakdown fouling, and the effects of changing geotechnical properties on GPR traces. This paper presents the design and construction of large scale track models, and methods used for GPR data collection. GPR data are presented in this paper that demonstrate sensitivity to the track model properties and variables. In particular, the experiments are being used to evaluate changes in GPR data with changing geotechnical properties of the ballast such as density, water content, grain size distribution (GSD), and fouling percentage.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Krainyukov ◽  
Igor Lyaksa

Abstract The paper is devoted to using ground penetrating radar (GPR) for the detection of tree roots in an urban area, since GPR allow detect the hidden objects in non invasive way. It is necessary exactly to know the growth direction, thickness and depth of the roots of the tree to confidently assert about the tree root influence on the technical condition of engineering objects and structures: of the buildings, of pavements, of roadway, of engineering communications and etc. The aim of the given research was experimentally to evaluation the possibilities of detection of tree roots in an urban area with the use of GPR on frequency 400 MHz and of algorithms of secondary processing of GPR signals. Results of interpretation of radar profile and evacuation of soil around tree show the possibility of detection of the tree roots and the determination of their parameters using one or two radar concentric profiles.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Welc ◽  
Radosław Mieszkowski ◽  
Sebastian Kowalczyk ◽  
Jerzy Trzciński

Abstract This paper presents the preliminary results of ground penetrating radar sounding applied at the desert archaeological site in Saqqara (Egypt). The survey was carried out in 2012 within a project realized by Institute of Archaeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw. One of the key aims of the research was testing the application of ground penetrating radar to non-invasive surveys of desert archaeological sites. Radargrams obtained for area of so called the Dry Moat channel surrounding the Step Pyramid complex have shown the geological structure of its filling. It comprises among others debris-sand conglomerate of diluval origin characterized by a significant content of the clay fraction and clay minerals. Such lithological content strongly attenuate the propagation of EM waves, restricting the depth range of the GPR survey. The conducted geophysical prospection west to the Step Pyramid in Saqqara has confirmed the high applicability of the GPR method in non-invasive studies of vast architectural structures, such as the monumental ditch surrounding the Step Pyramid known as the Dry Moat. It should summarised that high horizontal resolution obtained during GPR survey is a result of local geological structure of the searched area, i.e. strong lithological contrast of the sediments filling the Dry Moat, which, depending on their mineralogical composition


2003 ◽  
Vol 281 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bevan ◽  
Anthony L. Endres ◽  
David L. Rudolph ◽  
Gary Parkin

2019 ◽  
Vol 436 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 623-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinbo Liu ◽  
Xihong Cui ◽  
Li Guo ◽  
Jin Chen ◽  
Wentao Li ◽  
...  

Sedimentology ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 839-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN S. BRIDGE ◽  
JAN ALEXANDER ◽  
RICHARD E. LL. COLLIER ◽  
ROB. L. GAWTHORPE ◽  
JACK JARVIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.13) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Daniliev S.M ◽  
Danilieva N.A

The urgency of the issue being studied is determined by widespread large-scale implementation of ground penetrating radar (GPR) method within the study practice of technical state of various engineering-geological sites over a long operational period. Such buildings and structures as dams, architectural landmarks, residential and industrial buildings, temples and churches, roadways and takeoff runways may be referred to main engineering and geological sites which have been studied via ground penetrating radar method. Cracks of different length, orientation and opening, as well as cavities of various localization, being distinguished by filling material, are the main types of irregularities in the above-mentioned sites, which were being formed in the process of prolonged or improper operation. However, due to vastness of the irregularities being studied and the impossibility to include all the types of possible defects into this article, we have settled on the cavities which are the most commonly encountered in the course of practice only. This article considers the approach to analysis of the electromagnetic wave field frequency characteristics being applied during conducting ground penetrating radar studies of irregularities in the structure of engineering-geological sites on the basis of the results of electromagnetic wave fields mathematical simulation, and of the results obtained in experimental studies at real engineering-geological sites as well. There has been proposed a method based of inverse Fourier transformation for studying spectrum shift in georadargrams. The georadargram is a set of registered signals, which is obtained during even movement of the georadar along the survey line. Due to that, this article is aimed at attraction of analysis of wave electromagnetic field attributes in addition to standard methods of ground penetrating radar (GPR) data processing and interpretation, which allows to extend significantly prospect capabilities of GPR method by obtaining extra data on heterogeneous zones parameters at engineering and geological sites, and, thus, proceed from qualitative notions on technical condition of studied object to quantitative ones.  


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