Partial differential equation-based GPR signature discrimination for automatic detection of bridge deck delamination

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

11-3-2008

Abstract

Accurate assessment of the quality of concrete bridge decks and identification of corrosion induced delamination leads to economic management of bridge decks. It has been demonstrated that ground penetrating radar (GPR) can be successfully used for such purposes. The growing demand on GPR has brought into the challenge of developing automatic processes necessary to produce a final accurate interpretation. However, there have been few publications targeting at automatic detection of bridge deck delamination from GPR data. This paper proposes a novel method using partial differential equations (PDEs) to detect rebar (or steel-bar) mat signatures of concrete bridges from GPR data so that the delamination within the bridge deck can be effectively located. The proposed algorithm was tested on both synthetic and real GPR data and the experimental results have demonstrated its accuracy and reliability, even for diminished contrast and low signal-to-noise ratio. ©2008 IEEE.

Identifier

54949121821 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781424420230]

Publication Title

4th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Case 2008

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2008.4626543

First Page

431

Last Page

435

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