Field Demonstration of GPR and UAV technologies for Evaluation of Missouri River Bridge

Asphalt overlay is increasingly applied on many Nebraska bridges. The asphalt overlay prevents visual inspection and many nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods. Ground Penetrating RADAR (GPR) is currently the only proven NDE method that can be used to evaluate a concrete bridge deck with asphalt overlays (ASTM 2015). GPR can penetrate though the asphalt layer and the amplitudes of GPR reflection signals from reinforcing bars are used to evaluate the deck condition. In a previous Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) project (M-065), the PI’s team developed a complete procedure of GPR data analysis for bridge deck evaluation, which has been used to evaluate bridge decks with various types of overlays (bare, concrete overlay, asphalt overlay).

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $25,517.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Nebraska Department of Transportation

  1500 Nebraska 2
  Lincoln, NE  United States  68502
• Project Managers:

  Halsey, Lieska

• Principal Investigators:

  Zhu, Jinying

  Sim, Chungwook

• Start Date: 20200701
• Expected Completion Date: 20210531
• Actual Completion Date: 20210501

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge decks; Condition surveys; Data analysis; Drones; Evaluation and assessment; Field tests; Ground penetrating radar; Overlays (Pavements)
• Geographic Terms: Nebraska
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01736120
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Nebraska Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 13 2020 12:23PM