TY - CONF A1 - Kind, Thomas T1 - GPR Testing of concrete structures N2 - The basics of ground penetrating radar and its NDT application in civil engineering were shown. T2 - NDT&E Advanced Training Workshop CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 27.06.2018 KW - GPR KW - Concret KW - NDT PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46297 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Entwicklung eines innovativen Bodenradars zur Ortung von Objekten im Baugrund N2 - Das Projektziel war die Vermeidung von Schäden bei Erdarbeiten und Ausschachtungen durch Entwicklung eines innovativen Bodenradarsystems mit wesentlicher Verbesserung des räumlichen Auflösungsvermögens bei der zerstörungsfreien Ortung von folgenden Objekten im Untergrund: Gasleitungen, Frisch- und Abwasserleitungen, Leitungen zur Elektrizitäts- und Kommunikationsversorgung aus verschiedenen Materialien und umgeben mit unterschiedlichen Böden mit variierendem Feuchtegehalt. Darüber hinaus ging es um die Reduzierung der Kosten und Erhöhung der Akzeptanz des Verfahrens durch eine schnelle Echtzeit-Interpretation der Messdaten. T2 - Fachtagung Bauwerksdiagnose - Praktische Anwendungen Zerstörungsfreier Prüfungen CY - Leipzig, Germany DA - 25.10.2001 KW - räumliches Auflösungsvermögen KW - zerstörungsfreie Ortung KW - Echtzeit-Interpretation PY - 2001 AN - OPUS4-36559 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Railway Ballast Fouling Inspection by Monitoring the GPR Propagation Velocity with a Multi-Offset Antenna Array T2 - 11th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, the Ohio State University N2 - In this paper, a new method for the investigation of the degradation of ballast railway track beds is proposed. An array of antennas is used for simultaneous acquisition of reflected radar impulses, which have been transmitted from different sending positions. This array setup allows an automated CMP-measurement, which enables a direct calibration of the ballast thickness. These multiple offset measurements using the array setup are well suited for fast railway inspections. The method offers the possibility to visualize the state of degradation of the ballast in a velocity spectrum. T2 - 11th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, the Ohio State University CY - Columbus, Ohio, USA DA - 19.06.2006 KW - Radar KW - Non-destructive testing KW - Railroad PY - 2006 SP - 1 EP - 4 CY - Columbus, Ohio AN - OPUS4-39825 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Wöstmann, Jens A1 - Feistkorn, Sascha A1 - Trela, Christiane ED - Meßinger, Jens T1 - Radar in der Baupraxis: Lokalisierung von zweilagig vorgespannter Bewehrung in Beton JF - Mitteilungen / Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft - Sonderband N2 - Die Ermittlung der genauen Bewehrungslage ist von großem Interesse bei der Instandsetzung und Ertüchtigung von Stahlbetonbauwerken. Denn nur wenn die Lage der für die Standsicherheit wichtigen Bewehrung bekannt ist, können Kernbohrungen oder Sägearbeiten schadensfrei durchgeführt werden. Das Bodenradar als zerstörungsfreie Methode ist wegen des einfachen Verfahrens der Antenne entlang einer Messspur für eine solche Aufgabenstellung sehr gut geeignet. Die Anwendung kann aber eingeschränkt werden, wenn die gesuchte Bewehrung zu tief liegt oder durch eine davor liegende Bewehrung abgeschattet wird. Bei der Ortung mehrlagiger Bewehrung ist es wichtig, einen mehrstufigen und effizienten Messplan zu erstellen, der den Aufwand auf einem vertretbaren Maß beschränkt und die Möglichkeit bietet, beim Erreichen der Verfahrensgrenzen rechtzeitig die Untersuchung abzubrechen. Am Beispiel einer Stahlbetonbrücke, die nachträglich mit externen Spanngliedern versehen wurde, wird das Vorgehen beim Orten von mehrlagiger Bewehrung gezeigt. T2 - Georadar - Erfahrungen und Perspektiven CY - Freiberg, Germany DA - 24.09.2009 KW - Radar KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Stahlbeton PY - 2010 SN - 0947-1944 VL - I SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - Dt. Geophysikalische Ges. CY - Potsdam AN - OPUS4-39827 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lai Wai-Lok, Wallace A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert T1 - A study of concrete hydration and dielectric relaxation mechanism using ground penetrating radar and short-time fourier transform JF - EURASIP journal on advances in signal processing N2 - Ground penetrating radar (GPR) was used to characterize the frequency-dependent dielectric relaxation phenomena in ordinary Portland cement (OPC) hydration in concrete changing from fresh to hardened state. The study was experimented by measuring the changes of GPR A-scan waveforms over a period of 90 days, and processed the waveforms with short-time Fourier transform (STFT) in joint time-frequency analysis (JTFA) domain rather than a conventional time or frequency domain alone. The signals of the direct wave traveled at the concrete surface and the reflected wave from an embedded steel bar were transformed with STFT, in which the changes of peak frequency over ages were tracked. The peak frequencies were found to increase with ages and the patterns were found to match closely with primarily the well-known OPC hydration process and secondarily, the evaporation effect. The close match is contributed to the simultaneous effects converting free to bound water over time, on both conventional OPC hydration and dielectric relaxation mechanisms. KW - Soil water content KW - Wet soil KW - Microwave KW - Moisture KW - GPR KW - Dispersion PY - 2010 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-239723 DO - https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/317216 SN - 1687-6172 IS - Article ID 317216 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Hindawi Publ. CY - New York, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-23972 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Niederleithinger, Ernst A1 - Gardner, S. A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Kaiser, R. A1 - Grunwald, Marcel A1 - Yang, G. A1 - Redmer, Bernhard A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Mielentz, Frank A1 - Effner, Ute A1 - Köpp, Christian A1 - Clarkson, A. A1 - Thompson, F. A1 - Ryan, M. A1 - Mahon, D. T1 - Muon Tomography of the Interior of a Reinforced Concrete Block: First Experimental Proof of Concept JF - Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation N2 - Quality assurance and condition assessment of concrete structures is an important topic world-wide due to the aging infrastructure and increasing traffic demands. Common topics include, but are not limited to, localisation of rebar or tendon ducts, geometrical irregularities, cracks, voids, honeycombing or other flaws. Non-destructive techniques such as ultrasound or radar have found regular, successful practical application but sometimes suffer from limited resolution and accuracy, imaging artefacts or restrictions in detecting certain features. Until the 1980s X-ray transmission was used in case of special demands and showed a much better resolution than other NDT techniques. However, due to safety concerns and cost issues, this method is almost never used anymore. Muon tomography has received much attention recently. Novel detectors for cosmic muons and tomographic imaging algorithms have opened up new fields of application, such as the investigation of freight containers. Muon imaging also has the potential to fill some of the gaps currently existing in concrete NDT. As a first step towards practical use and as a proof of concept we used an existing system to image the interior of a reference reinforced 600 kg concrete block. Even with a yet not optimized setup for this kind of investigation, the muon imaging results are at least of similar quality compared to ultrasonic and radar imaging, potentially even better. The data acquisition takes more time and signals contain more noise, but the images allowed to detect the same important features that are visible in conventional high energy X-ray tomography. In our experiment, we have shown that muon imaging has potential for concrete inspection. The next steps include the development of mobile detectors and optimising acquisition and imaging parameters. KW - Concrete KW - Muon KW - Radar KW - Ultrasound KW - X-ray PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-529974 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-021-00797-3 VL - 40 IS - 3 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Springer Nature AN - OPUS4-52997 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Sharma, Govind A1 - Kind, Thomas T1 - Distinction of tendon ducts and rebars by GPR reflection signal patterns T2 - Proceedings - 2018 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar N2 - We investigated the possibility of surrounding waves along with perimeter of large diameter tendon ducts during ground penetrating radar (GPR) testing of concrete structures. The surrounding waves influence the primary reflection from tendon duct and alter the phase as well as amplitude of signal depending on the diameter of the tendon duct. This phenomenon was studied in detail by conducting several simulations using a commercial software Reflexw®. Finite Difference Time Domain method was adopted to analyze reflection patterns from objects of various diameters located at different depths in concrete media. The proposed methodology will be useful in qualitative assessment of size of metallic objects greater than a diameter of 6 cm. In general, the identification of large diameter tendon ducts in a civil structure is carried out by prior knowledge of the civil plan and its diagonal appearance to smaller diameter object mesh. The proposed methodology will enhance the confidence in identification of the larger diameter tendon ducts even if the civil plan is not known accurately. T2 - 17th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar CY - Rapperswil, Switzerland DA - 18.06.2018 KW - Ground penetrating radar KW - Rebar KW - Concrete PY - 2018 SN - 978-1-5386-5776-8 SP - 232 EP - 235 AN - OPUS4-46247 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Trela, C. A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Günther, Martin T1 - Ground penetrating radar in reflection vs transmission mode for void detection in concrete structures T2 - NDT-CE 2015 - International symposium non-destructive testing in civil engineering (Proceedings) N2 - The concreting of prefabricated concrete structures can lead to insufficient bonding or even to remaining cavities. Honeycombs (aggregate clusters without cement) represent potential weakening of the structure and need to be detected non-destructively. In our study we tested the capability of ground penetrating radar (GPR)techniques for this purpose. We applied GPR in reflection mode and zero-offset profiling (ZOP) Transmission mode on a precast concrete twin wall with built-in honeycombs. GPR measurements were performed as twochannel measurement with ground coupled antennas with centre frequencies of 1.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz mounted to an automated scanner system. Our findings show that ZOP transmission measurements are a more efficient method to detect voids in reinforced concrete structures compared to reflection mode measurements. This holds for both the effort needed for the measurement and the evaluation as well as the validity of the data. Honeycombs (basically representing voids) are usually characterized by strongly reduced amplitudes and earlier arrivals of the transmitted wave. T2 - NDT-CE 2015 - International symposium non-destructive testing in civil engineering CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 15.09.2015 KW - Ground penetrating radar KW - Reflection KW - Transmission KW - Reinforced concrete KW - Prefabricated wall KW - Void detection PY - 2015 SN - 1435-4934 SP - 324 EP - 344 PB - Technische Universität Berlin / Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung CY - Berlin, Germany AN - OPUS4-40006 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weise, Frank A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Stelzner, Ludwig A1 - Wieland, M. T1 - Dunkelfärbung der Betonfahrbahndecke im AKR-Kontext - Ursachenanalyse mit innovativer Prüftechnik T1 - Dark Dyeing of the Concrete Pavement in the AKR Context: Root Cause Analysis with innovative Testing Technology JF - Beton- und Stahlbetonbau N2 - Die AKR-Schadensevolution von Betonfahrbahndecken ist in der Anfangsphase durch eine Dunkelfärbung der Oberfläche im Fugenbereich gekennzeichnet. Es wird vermutet, dass eine erhöhte Durchfeuchtung der Betonrandzone ursächlich für diese Erscheinung ist. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde exemplarisch eine Fahrbahnplatte eines repräsentativen Bundesautobahnabschnitts systematisch mit verschiedenartiger zerstörungsfreier Prüftechnik vor Ort untersucht. Die Ergebnisse der zunächst erfolgten großflächigen Durchmusterung mit Radar zeigen, dass in den Bereichen mit einer Dunkelfärbung der Betonfahrbahndecke erhöhte Laufzeiten der Radarimpulse zwischen der Oberfläche und der Rückseite der Betonfahrbahndecke auftreten, was auf eine erhöhte integrale Durchfeuchtung der Betonfahrbahndecke schließen lässt. Vertiefend durchgeführte NMR-Feuchtemessungen in der Betonrandzone zeigen eine gute Korrelation zwischen erhöhtem Feuchtegehalt und der dunkel gefärbten Fahrbahnoberfläche. Die Ergebnisse beider zerstörungsfreien Prüfmethoden lassen den Schluss zu, dass die Betonfahrbahndecke in der Nähe des Fugenkreuzes eine höhere Durchfeuchtung als im Bereich der Querscheinfuge aufweist. Die geringste Durchfeuchtung besitzt die Betonfahrbahndecke in der Plattenmitte. Die mit den zerstörungsfreien Prüfverfahren ermittelten Befunde stimmen prinzipiell gut mit den punktuell mittels Darr-Wäge-Verfahren an Bohrmehlproben gewonnenen Ergebnissen überein. N2 - Darkening of the surface within alkali-silica reaction context - Root cause analysis with non-destructive measurement methods The damage evolution in concrete pavements due to alkali-silica reaction is characterized in the initial phase by a darkening of the surface along joint regions. It is generally assumed that an increased moisture content of the concrete boundary zone is responsible for this visual appearance. Against this background, a concrete pavement slab of a representative German motorway section was systematically investigated in-situ using different non-destructive measurement methods. The results of the high-resolution, planar radar showed an increased time of flight of the radar pulse between the pavement surface and the base of the concrete slab in the darkened areas. This indicated that the overall moisture content is increased near joints in the slab. Additional NMR moisture measurements in the concrete boundary zone confirmed the correlation between increased moisture content and the dark-colored surface of the concrete pavement. The results of both non-destructive measurement methods indicated that the moisture content near the intersection of two joints was higher than the moisture content near the area around the transverse joint. The lowest moisture content was measured in the center of the concrete pavement slab. The results obtained with the two non-destructive testing methods were in overall good agreement with moisture measurements of boring dust analyzed using the gravimetric method. KW - Betonfahrbahndecke KW - Alkali-Kieselsäure-Reaktion KW - Feuchtemessung KW - Radar KW - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance KW - ZfP PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/best.201800020 SN - 0005-9900 SN - 1437-1006 VL - 113 IS - 9 SP - 647 EP - 655 PB - Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-46173 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wiggenhauser, Herbert A1 - Kind, Thomas A1 - Mielentz, Frank A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Völker, Christoph A1 - Wilsch, Gerd T1 - Non-destructive testing in civil engineering at BAM N2 - Research and Development in Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering at BAM has de-veloped over more than two decades. Highlights of present research are ultrasound phase array probes, ground penetrating radar applications for the assessment of existing structures and Laser Induced Breakdown Spec-troscopy (LIBS) to determine which chemical elements on the surface of a specimen are. RFID sensor devel-opments for wireless moisture monitoring and data fusion for the combined analysis of sensor data are fast developing areas. In addition, a selection of application cases is briefly described. T2 - Vortrag über die Aktivitäten des Fachbereichs 8.2 in der zerstörungsfreien Prüfung im Bauwesen. KW - Ultrasonic testing KW - RFID-sensors KW - Data fusion KW - Ground penetrating radar KW - LIBS PY - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 10 CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-44132 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -