TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Levee inspection - geophysics between science, standards, reliability and budgets N2 - Numerous case histories show evidence that geophysical methods are valuable tools for levee inspection and monitoring. National and international standards and recommendations recommend the use of geophysics for a variety of tasks. However, in some cases reported have been flaws missed or false indications given. Due to the larger variety in type, size and construction of levees and the even larger variety of potential tasks and targets the success of geophysical surveys still pretty much depends on the available budget and the experience and capabilities of the clients and contractors involved. It is strongly recommended that all relevant parties agree on the detailed objectives of the survey, required accuracy and reliability of the results and any follow up measures. For the most common tasks more research and practical work using techniques as POD (probability of detection), which are well established in other fields of non-destructive testing, would be of benefit. T2 - SAGEEP 2016 CY - Denver, CO, USA DA - 20.03.2016 KW - Levee KW - Geophysics KW - Inspection PY - 2016 SP - paper levees 07, 1 EP - 4 AN - OPUS4-35705 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Progress in using geophysical methods for foundation quality assurance and inspection N2 - Modern geophysical methods might be either directly applied to foundations or integrated into existing testing schemes to assist in quality assurance and inspections. This paper gives an overview on available ideas and some more detailed examples from the author `s work including: - 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 author strongly believes that the cooperation between geophysics and civil engineering, which is obviously becoming stronger and stronger, will lead to a large number of innovative approaches for investigations tasks currently still unresolved. A lot of challenges and chances for science and technology are right here. T2 - SAGEEP 2016 CY - Denver, CO, USA DA - 20.03.2016 KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Piles, foundations KW - Slabs KW - Parallel seismic KW - Vibrator KW - Integrity PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-35706 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Innovative seismic and resistivity tools for determining the diameter of jet grouting columns N2 - Jet grouting is used for soil improvement, foundation support and groundwater low control all over the world. It is well accepted and subject of standardization in many countries. However, some issues with the method remain. As the grout columns are produced in the subsurface without visual control in an often inhomogeneous soil, the prediction of the column’s diameter is still a challenge. All methods applied so far have their limitations. The approach presented in this study is twofold. At Colorado School of Mines a resistivity probe has been developed, which is pushed into the fresh grout directly after production. ERT sections are measured and inverted. Given some background information is available, the diameter of the columns can be evaluated. At BAM the focus has been on post-production investigations using seismic borehole methods. After hardening of the concrete seismic waves are sent through the column downhole (sensors placed in a casing in the column’s axis, source on top) and crosshole (source and sensor in boreholes on opposite sides of the column). We have developed a scheme to evaluate the diameter of the column based on travel time measurements without calibration. As this method is eventually more time and cost intensive we assume its application mainly for test columns. These are casted and dug out for visual inspection to determine appropriate grouting parameters. Our method would replace the often very cost intensive visual inspection. Both approaches have been tested at three test columns produced at BAM’s test site at Horstwalde, Germany and on an actual constructions site. Both methods have been in good agreement with the diameters predicted by the jet grouting contractors, which were confirmed in one case by mechanical measurements. T2 - SAGEEP 2016 CY - Denver, CO, USA DA - 20.03.2016 KW - Jet grouting KW - Diameter KW - Quality assurance KW - Seismic PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-35708 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - NDT-CE 2015: International symposium non-nestructive testing in civil engineering N2 - The legend continued: The International Symposium NonDestructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDT-CE) had returned to Berlin. The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) and the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) hosted this prestigious event in the industrial landmark building Peter-Behrens-Halle and the Test Site Technical Safety (TTS) in Horstwalde in September 2015. Almost 300 participants from more than 35 countries gathered to present recent research, exchange knowledge and to lest the newest equipment in NDT-CE. This symposium, held regularly in various locations all over the world, was organized for the third time in Berlin and is by far the largest of its kind. KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Civil engineering KW - Conference PY - 2015 SN - 0934-6554 IS - 3 SP - 53 EP - 54 PB - Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft CY - Münster AN - OPUS4-35097 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Advances in ultrasonic testing and monitoring of concrete structures N2 - Recent years have seen extended use of ultrasonic techniques for concrete infrastructure assessement. They are applied for quality assurance and condition assessement at bridges, power plants, dams and other important objects. However, there are still a couple of significant limitations. They include, but are not limited to depth of penetration, imaging complex structures or early stage detections of distributed damage. The talk will give information on recent research in this area. Specifically, the application of the unique deep penetration system LAUS is shown. Ultrasonic monitoring using embedded transducers to check for subtle and sudden changes in the material is introduced as well. Comments on initiatives for validation, standardization and certification will be given. T2 - 341e Conférence CERES CY - Online meeting DA - 26.10.2020 KW - Concrete KW - Ultrasound KW - Imaging KW - Monitoring PY - 2020 AN - OPUS4-51463 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - NDE4.0 in civil engineering - obstacles and opportunities N2 - Civil engineering industry is one of the most important industry sectors in the world-wide economy. It contributes significantly to the gross economic product and general employment. Even more important, it provides many of the basic needs of the society (e. g. housing, infrastructure, protection from natural hazards). The concept of “Industry 4.0” or “Smart Production” has not yet made significant progress in the civil engineering industry. The design, build and operate processes are still widely dominated by the exchange of printed documents and drawings. Most objects (buildings and other constructions) are unique, and a large part of the production still requires a large amount of manual labor. As-built documentation and quality assurance are often neglected. Civil engineering is among the industries sectors with the lowest level of digitalization and the lowest gain in productivity. However, this is going to change. In the past decade, several drivers have challenged the ways clients, contractors, and authorities currently operate. These drivers include but are not limited to an increasing demand for serialization and automatization, the mandatory introduction of “Building Information Modeling” (BIM) in public procurement, the availability of construction equipment with sensors and digital interfaces or emerging automated construction technologies such as 3D-printing. NDE (referred to as NDT-CE in this sector), after a rapid technological development in the last two decades, plays an increasing role in quality assurance, condition assessment and monitoring of structures. However, with very few exceptions, applications are mostly non-standardized and performed only at selected sites. To change this, the NDT-CE community including manufacturers, service providers, clients and the scientific community must work consistently on open data formats, interfaces to BIM, standardization and validated ways for a quantitative use of the results in the assessment of constructions. T2 - International Virtual Conference on NDE 4.0 CY - Online Meeting DA - 14.04.2021 KW - NDT KW - BIM KW - SHM KW - NDE 4.0 PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-52623 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - PREDIS The pre-disposal management of radioactive waste N2 - This presentation summarizes the opbjectives and the progress of the EURATOM project PREDIS (pre-disposal management of radioactive waste) and its workpackage 7 in particular. Focus is on the development of wireless sensors for monitoring radioactive waste packages, measuring radiation, temperature, pressure and humidity. T2 - DigiDecom 2022 CY - Halden, Norway DA - 18.10.2022 KW - Radioactive waste KW - Monitoring KW - Wireless KW - RFID PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56321 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Imani, A. A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Nondestructive Evaluation of Bridges without Structural Plans for Load Rating Purposes N2 - According to the NBI database, more than 21,000 in-service U.S. bridges lack sufficient structural documentation necessary for analytical load rating. Among these are a significant proportion of older prestressed concrete bridges. Given the lack of documentation on the reinforcing layout, such structures cannot be load rated analytically and are often subject to engineering judgement as the basis for rating. Otherwise, the typical approach for load rating such bridges is to conduct costly proof load testing and destructive probing together with making conservative assumptions. Therefore, any improvement to current practices will benefit DOTs and taxpayers alike. Accurately reconstructed 3D images of the girders to reflect the internal reinforcement could mitigate the need for costly, if not impractical, destructive testing and proof load testing, and help reduce dependency on conservative assumptions. This study examines a comprehensive NDE approach using ultrasonic tomography and GPR to aid in gathering structural information for load rating purposes. Different types of AASHTO and hollow core girders were tested. T2 - NDT-CE 2022 CY - Zurich, Switzerland DA - 16.08.2022 KW - Ultrasound KW - Radar KW - Bridges KW - Load rating PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56356 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Galindo Guerreros, Julio Cesar A1 - Mackens, S. A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Fechner, T. ED - Manzanal, D. ED - Sfriso, A. O. T1 - Numerical simulations of crosshole and downhole seismic measurements as quality control tool for jet grout columns N2 - Sealing and strengthening of the subsoil by injection is a major issue in the field of geotechnical engineering. This involves also jet grouting, which allows creating columns of grouted soil by eroding and mixing the in-situ soil with a thin cement suspension. A general difficulty of this method is to predict the column diameter and its material strength. Here, we present two-dimensional finite-difference numerical simulation results of a promising non-destructive quality assurance testing tool to evaluate the diameter of jet grout columns. This approach incorporates crosshole and downhole seismic measurements. Preliminary tests showed that this tool is applicable under real site conditions. T2 - 15th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering CY - Buenos Aires, Argentina DA - 15.11.2015 KW - Jet grout KW - Diameter KW - Seismic KW - Crosshole KW - Downhole KW - FD KW - Quality control tool PY - 2015 SN - 978-1-61499-603-3 SN - 978-1-61499-602-6 DO - https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-603-3-985 SP - Part 1, 985 EP - 992 PB - IOS Press AN - OPUS4-37706 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Coda wave interferometry used for monitoring of concrete constructions N2 - Ultrasonic transmission measurements on concrete; embedded transducers; coda wave interferometry to check for subtle chnages in velocity as indicator for various loads or deterioration. T2 - 76. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft CY - Münster, Germany DA - 14.03.2016 KW - Ultrasound KW - Transmission KW - Coda wave interferometry KW - Concrete KW - Load PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37721 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Ertel, Jens-Peter A1 - Sochor, M. A1 - Unseld, H. T1 - Nachbestimmung von Pfahllängen am Beispiel von Masten N2 - Im Rahmen der Lebensdauerverlängerung oder der Umnutzung von Bauwerken (z. B. Brücken, Bürogebäude oder Maste) müssen diese zum Teil neu bewertet werden. Dafür ist eine Nachrechnung für statische und dynamische Lastfälle erforderlich. Dies betrifft zum einen die Struktur selbst, die gegebenenfalls verstärkt werden muss. Aber auch die Gründung (oft Pfähle verschiedenster Typen) muss neu beurteilt werden. Nach mehreren Jahrzehnten sind jedoch für einige Bauwerke keine zuverlässigen Bestandsunterlagen verfügbar. Eine vollständige Freilegung der Pfähle verbietet sich aus Kostengründen sowie Verlust an Widerstand gegen Zug. Lediglich der Pfahlanschluss kann visuell begutachtet werden, um Pfahlzahl, -typ und Durchmesser zu bestimmen. Für die Bestimmung der Pfahllänge müssen zerstörungsfreie Verfahren eingesetzt werden. In einer Machbarkeitsstudie wurden von den Autoren teils im Blindversuch drei Verfahren evaluiert: die klassische Pfahlintegritätsprüfung nach der Hammerschlagmethode, eine mehrkanalige Variante hierzu und das Parallel-Seismik-Verfahren. Die ersten beiden Methoden lieferten an den untersuchten Pfählen nur in Einzelfällen verwertbare Ergebnisse. Die Parallel-Seismik-Methode lieferte auch im Blindversuch an Fundamenten, bei denen die Pfahllänge dem Eigentümer bekannt war, Ergebnisse mit einer Abweichung von max. 0,5 m. Diese Toleranz lässt sich bei der Standfestigkeitsbeurteilung berücksichtigen. Die Mehrkosten des Verfahrens (anders als bei den anderen Verfahren wird ein verrohrtes Bohrloch im Boden nahe dem Pfahl benötigt) halten sich in Grenzen, wenn man es in die geotechnische Untersuchung integriert. Daher wurde es inzwischen auch in der Praxis eingesetzt. Auch liegen die Gesamtkosten für die Untersuchung deutlich unter denen für eventuell notwendigen Ersatz – oder Verstärkungsmaßnahmen, die notwendig werden, wenn keine Daten zur Pfahllänge verfügbar sind. Der Vortrag erläutert die Ergebnisse der Machbarkeitsstudie, zeigt erste Praxisfälle und weist auf Möglichkeiten hin, das Parallel-Seismik Verfahren in Zukunft noch genauer und effizienter einzusetzen. T2 - 34. Baugrundtagung CY - Bielefeld, Germany DA - 15.09.2016 KW - Mast KW - Pfahl KW - Länge KW - Parallel-Seismik KW - Integritätsprüfung PY - 2016 SN - 9783946039013 SP - 31 EP - 36 PB - DGGT CY - Essen AN - OPUS4-37648 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - State-of-the-art of Ultrasonic Monitoring of Concrete N2 - Ultrasonic methods are well established in various aspects of concrete testing. They are used for imaging the interior geometry of constructions, estimation of concrete strength or monitoring lab investigations. However, so far the detection of distributed damages, especially in an early stage, has been almost impossible. The arrival of new technologies as deep penetration ultrasonic echo devices, new imaging techniques, embedded transducers for permanent monitoring and sensitive data processing techniques adopted from seismology have opened new fields of work. Recent research has been focused to detect changes in concrete elements induced by stress, temperature, moisture or chemical attacks. KW - Ultrasound KW - Concrete KW - Monitoring KW - Imaging PY - 2016 IS - 10 SP - 15 EP - 18 AN - OPUS4-38728 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - State-of-the-art ultrasonic monitoring of concrete N2 - Ultrasonic methods are well established in various aspects of concrete testing. They are used for imaging the interior geometry of constructions, estimation of concrete strength or monitoring lab investigations. However, so far the detection of distributed damages, especially in an early stage, has been almost impossible. The arrival of new technologies as embedded transducers and sensitive data processing techniques adopted from seismology has opened new field of work. Recent research has been focused to detect changes in concrete elements induced by stress, temperature, moisture or chemical attacks by permanent monitoring. Techniques as Coda Wave Interferometry can resolve changes in ultrasonic velocity in the order of 1*10-5. In addition, many researchers believe that the investigation of nonlinear effects can be used to characterize damages. The presentation will give a wrap up of ultrasonic techniques currently used in practice. This will include echo based methods as multi-channel/multi-offset imaging of structural elements using commercial and prototype devices. Imaging methods as SAFT and RTM will be shortly discussed. The focus will be on the emerging techniques used for monitoring. New types of sensors will be presented as well as the devices used in laboratory and field applications. Insight will be given on the various influence factors on ultrasonic signals and various ways of feature extraction and data processing. The results of lab experiments will be shown to demonstrate the detection of various kind of damages from mechanical load, ASR, corrosion to fatigue. The experiences with or first installations in real constructions (bridges, tunnel) will also be presented. T2 - CBIR Research Seminar, University of Technology Sydney CY - Sydney, Australia DA - 05.12.2016 KW - Ultrasound KW - Concrete KW - Monitoring KW - Imaging PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38730 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Progress in non-destructive testing and monitoring of concrete N2 - The presentation will give an overview on non-destructive testing techniques being developed at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany (BAM). This includes ultrasonic methods, ground penetration radar, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), infrared thermography, pile testing, sensor technology and building scanner. A focus of the talk will be ultrasonic methods, which are well established in various aspects of concrete testing. They are used for imaging the interior geometry of constructions, estimation of concrete strength or monitoring lab investigations. However, so far the detection of distributed damages, especially in an early stage, has been almost impossible. The arrival of new technologies as embedded transducers and sensitive data processing techniques adopted from seismology has opened new field of work. Recent research has been focused to detect changes in concrete elements induced by stress, temperature, moisture or chemical attacks by permanent monitoring. Techniques as Coda Wave Interferometry can resolve changes in ultrasonic velocity in the order of 1*10-5. In addition, many researchers believe that the investigation of nonlinear effects can be used to characterize damages. The presentation will give a wrap up of ultrasonic techniques currently used in practice. This will include echo based methods as multi-channel/multi-offset imaging of structural elements using commercial and prototype devices. Imaging methods as SAFT and RTM will be shortly discussed. The focus will be on the emerging techniques used for monitoring. New types of sensors will be presented as well as the devices used in laboratory and field applications. Insight will be given on the various influence factors on ultrasonic signals and various ways of feature extraction and data processing. The results of lab experiments will be shown to demonstrate the detection of various kind of damages from mechanical load, ASR, corrosion to fatigue. The experiences with our first installations in real constructions (bridges, tunnel) will also be presented. T2 - CIE Research Seminar, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales CY - Sydney, Australia DA - 15.12.2016 KW - Ultrasound KW - Concrete KW - Monitoring KW - Imaging PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38732 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Coelho Lima, Isabela A1 - Grohmann, Maria A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Alternative imaging conditions for reverse-time migration N2 - Poster on the evaluation of several imaging conditions for reverse time migration, applied to ultrasonic echo data, tested with synthetic (simulated) dat and real data from a polyamide model. T2 - Jahrestagung der Deutschen geophysikalischen Gesellschaft CY - Leoben, Austria DA - 12.2.2018 KW - Ultrasound KW - Reverse time migration KW - Imaging condition KW - Concrete KW - Polyamide PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44583 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Concepts from seismic interferometry transferred to sonic and ultrasonic concrete inspection and monitoring N2 - Seismic interferometry (SI) deals either with the sensible detection of changes in the subsurface or with the reconstruction of virtual signals between two receivers by crosscorrelation of signals from diffuse sources. These concepts can be applied in NDT in civil engineering for various purposes, e. g. to detect changes in bridges. Here it is demonstrated using data from a reference structure on our test site. Practical applications can be expected in the very near future. T2 - European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (ECNDT) CY - Gothenburg, Sweden DA - 11.6.2018 KW - Ultrasound KW - Monitoring KW - Concrete KW - Interferometry KW - Coda PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46844 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Codawelleninterferometrie zur Detektion von Spannungszuständen in Betonbauteilen N2 - Informationen zu in Betonbauteilen stattfindenden Umlagerungsprozessen sowie Druckspannungsverteilungen können mit konventioneller Messtechnik bislang nicht zweifelsfrei beantwortet werden. Ultraschallmessungen mit eingebetteten Sensoren könnten hier eine sinnvolle Ergänzung zur konventionellen Messtechnik sein. Durch Einsatz der Codawelleninterferometrie (CWI) sind hiermit schon sehr kleine Änderungen im Material detektierbar. Um diese neue Methodik zu evaluieren, wurde das Forschungsprojekt „Querkrafttragfähigkeit von Spannbetonbrücken – Erfassung von Spannungszuständen in den Spannbetonversuchsträgern mit Ultraschallsensoren“ durch die Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) initiiert. In diesem Projekt wurden durch die Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM) Ultraschall-Transducer in mehrere Spannbetonträger des Instituts für Massivbau der RWTH Aachen eingebettet, die anschließend bis zum Bruch belastet wurden. Der Belastungsversuch an einem der Spannbetondurchlaufträger zeigte das große Potential dieser Methodik. Die im Netzwerk erfassten Änderungen der Ultraschallwellengeschwindigkeit geben die Spannungsverhältnisse im Längsschnitt des Trägers schon bei sehr niedrigen Belastungen qualitativ richtig wieder und zeigen bei hohen Belastungen eine gute Korrelation zum Rissbild. Dabei weisen räumliche Anomalien und Änderungen in der Charakteristik der Geschwindigkeitsänderungen oft schon auf Rissbildung hin, wenn diese noch nicht an der Oberfläche sichtbar ist. Dies zeigt das Potential im Hinblick auf eine Frühwarnung. Hierfür und ebenso in Bezug auf eine Quantifizierung der Effekte ist aber noch Entwicklungsarbeit notwendig. Ein Vorteil der Methodik ist, dass die Transducer nicht direkt am Ort der Änderung platziert werden müssen und einen relativ großen Bereich um die Transducer herum erfassen. T2 - DGZfP Jahrestagung CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 07.05.2018 KW - Ultraschall KW - Monitoring KW - Codawelleninterferometrie KW - Brückenträger PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44863 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Coelho Lima, Isabela A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Alternative imaging conditions for reverse time migration N2 - Ultrasound echo is a widely used NDT technique for determining the internal geometry of structures. Reverse-time migration (RTM) has been recently introduced to NDT applications, as an imaging method for ultrasound data, to overcome some of the limitations (e.g. imaging steeply dipping reflector) experienced by the Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (SAFT), the most commonly used imaging algorithm for these measurements. The standard implementation of RTM also experiences some drawbacks caused by its imaging condition, which is based on the zero-lag of the cross-correlation between source and receiver wavefields and generates high-amplitude low-frequency artifacts. Three alternative imaging conditions, developed for seismic data applications, were tested for their ability to provide better images than the standard cross-correlation: illumination compensation, deconvolution and wavefield decomposition. A polyamide specimen was chosen for the simulation of a synthetic experiment and for real data acquisition. The migrations of both synthetic and real data were performed with the software Madagascar. The illumination imaging condition was able to reduce the low-frequency noise and had a good performance in terms of computing time. The deconvolution improved the resolution in the synthetic tests, but did not showed such benefit for the real experiments. Finally, as for the wavefield decomposition, although it presented some advantages in terms of attenuating the low-frequency noise and some unwanted reflections, it was not able to image the internal structure of the polyamide as well as the cross-correlation did. Suggestions on how to improve the cost-effectiveness of the implementation of the deconvolution and wavefield decomposition were presented, as well as possible investigations that could be carried out in the future, in order to obtain better results with those two imaging conditions. T2 - DGZfP Jahrestagung 2018 CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 07.05.2018 KW - Ultrasound KW - Reverse time migration KW - Imaging condition KW - Concrete PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-44873 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Ertel, J.-P. T1 - Foundations N2 - Overview on NDT methods for foundations as a preparation for the practical training T2 - NDT&E Advanced Training Workshop CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 27.06.2018 KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Foundations KW - Pile KW - Integrity PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45362 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Geophysical methods in quality assurance and inspection of foundations 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 AN - OPUS4-42551 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - The LAUS: First applications of a new system for ultrasonic imaging of very concrete structures N2 - The LAUS (Large Aperture Ultrasonic System) has been developed to image very thick concrete structures, which are not accessible for commercial systems. The device and the corresponding software is the result of joint research of BAM, an ultrasonic instrument manufacturer and University of Kassel, Germany. It consists of 12 separate arrays of 32 point-contact shear wave transducers each, which can be deployed in flexible configurations. Each array is combined with battery and transmitter, receiver and wireless communication electronics. Three case histories are presented. First the system was deployed on a 5-m thick heavily reinforced foundation slab. The reflection of the slab’s bottom was imaged clearly. In addition, a multiple reflection was registered, thus giving hope that even thicker elements might be imaged by the instrument. Second, the LAUS was used to investigate a massive bridge girder where a heavy rainstorm during concreting had led to imperfections that were visible after removing the formwork was removed. The LAUS could image tendon ducts in 1.8m depth and the backwall closely behind them. Some limited areas showed blurred reflections and were checked by drill holes; these areas were affected by diffuse damage which could be repaired by injections. Third, a large retaining wall was checked for thickness. Meanwhile, the LAUS has been used in underground waste deposits (nuclear and other) for quality assurance of sealing plugs. A confirmed penetration depth of about 7 m has been reached. T2 - ASNT SMT/NDT-CE 2018 CY - New Brunswick, NJ, USA DA - 27.8.2018 KW - LAUS KW - Ultrasound KW - Imaging KW - Concrete PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45828 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst T1 - Geophysical Methods for Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering T2 - AGU Fall Meeting CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 2013-12-09 PY - 2013 AN - OPUS4-29843 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -