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Seismic joint analysis for non-destructive testing of asphalt and concrete slabs

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Summary, in English

A seismic approach is used to estimate the thickness and elastic stiffness constants of asphalt or concrete slabs. The overall concept of the approach utilizes the robustness of the multichannel seismic method. A multichannel-equivalent data set is compiled from multiple time series recorded from multiple hammer impacts at progressively different offsets from a fixed receiver. This multichannel simulation with one receiver (MSOR) replaces the true multichannel recording in a cost-effective and convenient manner. A recorded data set is first processed to evaluate the shear wave velocity through a wave field transformation, normally used in the multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method, followed by a Lambwave inversion. Then, the same data set is used to evaluate compression wave velocity from a combined processing of the first-arrival picking and a linear regression. Finally, the amplitude spectra of the time series are used to evaluate the thickness by following the concepts utilized in the Impact Echo (IE) method. Due to the powerful signal extraction capabilities ensured by the multichannel processing schemes used, the entire procedure for all three evaluations can be fully automated and results can be obtained directly in the field. A field data set is used to demonstrate the proposed approach.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

991-1000

Publication/Series

Geotechnical Special Publication

Issue

130-142

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Topic

  • Geotechnical Engineering

Keywords

  • Impact Echo (IE) method
  • Non-destructive testing (NDT)
  • Multichannel simulation with one receiver (MSOR)
  • Seismic joint analysis

Conference name

Geo-Frontiers 2005

Conference date

2005-01-24 - 2005-01-26

Conference place

Austin, TX, United States

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0895-0563