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Complex resistivity (CR) behavior of building material - first results of field scale measurements
(2008)
Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) as a non-destructive (NDT)-method can be applied to obtain detailed information about the inner structure and condition of bridges without damaging the structure.
In this paper the capabilities and limitations of the application of the fast inspection technique GPR will be demonstrated.
In addition to GPR investigations, geoelectrical measurements, coring and petrophysical investigations have been carried out.
The investigated railway bridge in Olesnica is a typical European masonry arch bridge (age, construction and span length).
It shows typical damage to the masonry arches such as increasing salt concentration, destruction, material losses and longitudinal cracks.
Radar measurements were carried out with two main objectives: (1) Identification of basic geometric dimensions of the bridge and identification of construction details; (2) Evaluation of the condition of the masonry, such as mechanical damage (e.g. cracks) or variation of the moisture content.
Radar antennas of different frequencies (having different penetration depths) have been used to estimate the thickness of the walls.
Because of the high attenuation in the inner masonry structure the measurements have not produced satisfying results, but the radar measurements have been successfully applied to investigate the moisture distribution in the masonry.
These results have been verified by coring and through geoelectrical measurements.
Cracks were studied at two testing areas at one wing wall of the bridge using an automatic 2D radar scanning system.
The radar data were processed using advanced data processing tools like FT-SAFT reconstruction and data fusion.
The processing sequence allowed the creation of high-resolution depth sections (C-Scans).
Moisture ingress is one of the major deteriorating factors for building materials. Today, the only approved way to assess such damage is the gravimetric Darr method, which is essentially destructive. Substantial progress has been made using the geophysical complex-resistivity method, which can be applied non-destructively and provides spatial information along two-dimensional sections, rather than punctual along one borehole. Considerable advantages of complex resistivity are its sensitivity to textural properties, as well as the pore-fluid chemistry of wet, porous media. In a comprehensive laboratory study, and later in field scale experiments, it could be shown that complex resistivity may even be able to distinguish between salt content and saturation degree in a single measurement. A comparison with complementary nondestructive testing techniques points to the benefit and further research to be explored in multimethodical approaches.
Building stones are porous media and they can deteriorate through moisture ingress and secondary damage such as crystallization of soluble salts. Not only is this due to the increasing number of flood events in the past years but also structural damages of houses from activity such as leakage or rising moisture (groundwater) are the main causes. The potential benefit of several nondestructive testing methods to assess water damage in building stone has been studied in a field-scale experiment. Three testing walls made of fired clay brick, sandstone, and spongilite were flooded and their drying behavior monitored using infrared thermography, complex resistivity, ground penetrating radar, and ultrasonics. The results were compared to the average moisture content determined by gravimetric weighing of the specimens. Qualitatively, the results of the different nondestructive testing methods matched well. But in terms of quantitative data, some scatter was observed and the results should be viewed with care. Collecting time-consuming calibration data would help to overcome this problem, but especially when dealing with historic building structures, this is not always possible in practice.
We have compared the performance of the typical Darr and CM moisture testing techniques, which are destructive with several non-destructive testing techniques on two types of floor screeds. In case of cement based screeds these destructive tests failed to deliver reliable results. Moreover, our measurements indicate significantly different drying and moisture transport behavior for the investigated cement based and calcium-sulphate based screeds. Whereas we have strong with depth decreasing moisture gradients in the CT material, we observe in the penetrated volumes of our ndt methods basically no clear moisture gradient in the CA samples. The findings with ndt methods could be supported by moisture gradient studies with nuclear magnetic resonance measurements.
Eight different screed types are tested including two different sample heights of 35 and 70 mm. The moisture of the four cement based and four sulphate based screeds are monitored during hydration and evaporation. All samples are stored in a climatic chamber at 23◦ C and 50 % relative humidity. Embedded sensors like temperature arrays, humidity sensor arrays, and multi-ring electrodes are embedded in the samples to yield a detailed moisture evolution with high depth resolution. Furthermore, nuclear magnetic resonance is used to quantify the water content at different depths. This multi-sensor approach allows a comprehensive monitoring of the moisture and its gradient in the different screed samples. This yields a deeper insight into the hydration, moisture convection, and diffusion processes.
This paper studies the spatial and temporal spectral absorption of reflector signals of a 1.5 GHz ground penetrating radar (GPR) during a drying process of a brickwall from initial wet to later dry state. The non-stationary GPR signals were processed with short time-Fourier transform (STFT) and wavelet transform (WT) in a novel spatial-timefrequency (STF) domain. Spatial distribution of peak frequency at the direct wave (DW) across the antenna and a backwall reflection was studied to characterize the mechanism of spectral absorption of GPR wave. Results from WT were shown to be more preferred to those from STFT because the WT offers multiple resolutions to cope with both low and high frequency components in GPR wavelets but STFT does not. In addition to the traditional GPR signal interpretation in time-domain and our previous works on time–frequency domain, the analysis method operated in the STF domain provides another possibility of material characterization by GPR in large and field scale.
Moisture ingress is one of major damaging factors for masonry buildings. As the complex resistivity (CR) is sensitive to textural properties as well as to the pore fluid chemistry of wet porous media, its non-destructive application can provide helpful information for conservators. In a comprehensive laboratory study it has been shown that CR might even be able to distinguish between salt content and saturation degree in only one measurement. The combined use of electrical and electromagnetic measurement techniques in two field-scale flooding experiments has shown some unexpected differences. Possible reasons are discussed and it is shown that bringing together the information of both methods leads to a clearer picture.
Die Bestimmung der Belegreife von Estrichen erfolgt im Bauwesen meist unter Verwendung von zerstörenden Verfahren, die Probenentnahmen erfordern und nur punktuelle Daten liefern. Bei anhydritgebundenen Estrichen gelten 0,5 M% und bei zementgebundenen ca. 3,5 M% und höher als belegreifer Feuchtegehalt. Die Belegreife wird als Feuchtegehalt in Masseprozent (M%) bezogen auf die Trockenmasse des Baustoffes angegeben. Zur zerstörungsfreien Feuchtemessung existieren verschiedene einfach zu bedienende Handgeräte, die u. a. auf elektrischen, elektromagnetischen und kapazitiven Methoden beruhen. In dieser Arbeit wurden ein kapazitives (Kugelsonde), ein elektromagnetisches (Mikrowellensensoren) und ein elektrisches Messverfahren (Vierelektroden-Sonde) untersucht. Mit Ausnahme der Vierelektroden-Sonde weisen die Handgeräte keine ausreichende Sensitivität in Bereichen niedriger Feuchtegehalte unterhalb von 1 M% auf und scheinen somit nicht für anhydritgebundene Estriche geeignet zu sein. Für zementgebundene Estriche lassen sich hingegen mit allen getesteten Geräten Änderungen in dem Bereich der Belegreife erfassen. In dieser Arbeit wird zusätzlich die Wasserabgabe in g/m²/Tag als Bezugsgröße herangezogen. Die Wasserabgabe stellt ein geeigneteres Maß für die Schadensträchtigkeit dar und ermöglicht direkte Vergleiche unabhängig von der verwendeten Estrichart. Für alle getesteten Estriche konnte eine Wasserabgabe von ca. 8-10 g/m²/Tag als Belegreifegrenzwert bestimmt werden.
Die Ermittlung der Belegreife von Fußbodenestrichen ist im Bauwesen von hoher Bedeutung,
da es bei dem Verlegen von Parkett oder anderen Bodenbelägen auf Estrichen zu erheblichen
feuchtigkeitsbedingten Schäden kommen kann, wenn diese noch nicht hinreichend
getrocknet sind. Für die Messung des Feuchtegehalts wird üblicherweise auf zerstörende
Methoden wie das Darr- und CM-Verfahren zurückgegriffen, die Probennahmen erfordern
und nur punktuelle Informationen liefern.
Ziel dieser Forschungsstudie ist die Untersuchung der Eignung und Anwendbarkeit des
Georadars und der Kernspinresonanz (NMR) zur zerstörungsfreien und flächendeckenden
Feuchtemessung von Estrichen. Dazu wurden Messungen mit beiden Verfahren an einer
Gruppe zementgebundener (CT) und einer Gruppe anhydritgebundener (CA) Estriche
während ihres Austrocknungsprozesses bei einem Konstant-Klima durchgeführt. Bei dem
Radarverfahren werden Amplitude und Laufzeit elektromagnetischer Reflexionen, die durch den Wassergehalt beeinflusst werden, gemessen. Die Radarmessungen erfolgten auf jeder
Probe entlang von zwei senkrechten Profilen mit einer 2GHz-Antenne. Die Kernspinresonanz
steht aufgrund ihrer Abhängigkeit zur magnetischen Kernresonanz der 1H-Wasserstoffatomen
in Relation mit dem Wassergehalt in dem Messvolumen der zu untersuchenden
Probe. Die Untersuchungen erfolgten mit dem NMR MOUSE System in Aufsatztechnik.
Dabei liegt die Eindringtiefe bei 24,8 mm.
Bei den Untersuchungen lässt sich für CT-Estriche ein starker vertikaler Feuchtegradient
feststellen. Die CA-Estriche weisen hingegen nur einen schwachen Feuchtegradienten bis
nahezu konstante Amplituden über die gesamte Tiefe auf. Nach Erreichen einer Amplitude
von ca. 5-8 lässt sich keine weitere Amplitudenveränderung registrieren bzw. sind ab diesen
Zeitpunkt die Änderungen im Wassergehalt zu gering, um von der NMR aufgelöst zu werden.
In den Ergebnissen des Radarverfahrens lässt sich ebenfalls ein von dem Feuchtegehalt
abhängiges Verhalten der Messparameter beobachten. Mit zunehmender Trocknung kann
man eine Abnahme der Laufzeit zwischen direkter und an der Rückwand reflektierter Welle
messen. Die Amplituden beider Wellen hingegen nehmen während des Austrocknungsprozesses
zu. Im Gegensatz zur NMR erhält man keine tiefenbezogenen Informationen.
Es lassen sich aber Rückschlüsse auf den Feuchtegehalt im Gesamtvolumen ziehen.