Abstract
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) for nondestructive testing is applied to civil infrastructure such as bridges and roadways. Conventional methods of processing and analyzing GPR data for civil infrastructure are often qualitative, using relative reflection amplitude from subsurface boundaries or reinforcing steel (rebars) as an indicator of health. A Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation of GPR is used to generate a bridge deck response of a heterogeneous model of a healthy bridge deck. The result is a healthy deck background that can be removed from measured data to bring anomalies to attention. For the purpose of this article, the measured data is also simulated. In lieu of modeling the identified rebars as perfect electrical conductors (PECs), they are modeled as hard point source excitations to allow for examination of the effect that the scattered waves from the rebar can have on an anomaly. This is an important consideration for application of many inversion methods.
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