TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Grohmann, Maria A1 - Ertel, Jens-Peter T1 - Using geophysical methods in quality assurance and inspection of foundations T2 - Proceedings of ICEG 2017 N2 - Modern geophysical methods might be either directly applied to concrete structures or integrated into existing testing schemes to assist in quality assurance and inspections. This paper gives an overview on some ideas and developments from the author’s work: • Vibrator technologies to improve pile integrity testing. • Ideas from vertical seismic profiling used in multichannel pile inspection • Cross- and downhole seismics to check the diameter of jet grouting columns • Improving the parallel seismic methods for precise length measurement of piles and foundation walls • Seismic migration methods to improve ultrasonic imaging of foundation slabs • Seismological tools to monitor subtle changes in concrete constructions The authors strongly believe that the cooperation between geophysics and civil engineering, which is obviously becoming stronger and stronger, will lead to a large number of innovative approaches. T2 - ICEG 2017 CY - Al Ain, United Arab Emirates DA - 09.10.2017 KW - Foundations KW - NDT KW - Geophysics PY - 2017 SP - Paper EG02, 1 EP - 5 PB - UAE University CY - Al Ain, United Arab Emirates AN - OPUS4-42552 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -