Author : Abdulrazzaq T. Ziboon, Nisreen S. Mohammed and Annam G. Hamad

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has gained increasing popularity in quality control surveys of several structures in the field of civil engineering due to its greatest advantages as non-destructive testing in comparison to the other traditional methods as well as costs are low and surveys can be performed quickly and data collection can be 2D or 3D displayed. In this paper GPR is applied to six concrete slabs. Radar measurements were performed using a 1000 MHz RAMAC GPR CU-II. Two concrete slabs weren’t reinforced, two have simple reinforcement, and the last two have artificial gaps in their reinforcement. Experiments resulted that some features can be inspected in the radargram image.

Keywords: Ground Penetrating Radar, Non-Destructive Testing Method of Concrete, Concrete Features, Microwave, Concrete, Imaging

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.6 (Nov/Dec 2017)