Abstract
AbstractAs of 2013, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimated that one-third of the total bridge deck area in the United States was structurally deficient. Providing for the effective management and repair of these decks requires transportation agencies to have access to the best available information about structural conditions. Bridge deck inspection has long relied on sounding techniques, such as tapping and chain drag, which can be time intensive and may not provide enough information for accurate repair estimating. Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques may provide faster and more accurate data collection, but their value needs to be proven to transportation agencies and bridge owners. This paper describes a case study considering the two NDE techniques available for inspecting bridge decks with asphalt overlay: ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and infrared (IR) thermography. NDE scanning results and as-built repair data for four bridge decks were made available to the research team. Comp...
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