Evaluation of airport pavements using NDT approaches

Avdelidis, NP; Moropoulou, A

dc.contributor.author	Avdelidis, NP	en
dc.contributor.author	Moropoulou, A	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:51:05Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:51:05Z
dc.date.issued	2007	en
dc.identifier.issn	0277786X	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/35354
dc.subject	Airports	en
dc.subject	Defects	en
dc.subject	Ground penetrating radar	en
dc.subject	Pavements	en
dc.subject	Thermography	en
dc.subject.other	Corrosion	en
dc.subject.other	Defects	en
dc.subject.other	Deterioration	en
dc.subject.other	Failure analysis	en
dc.subject.other	Ground penetrating radar systems	en
dc.subject.other	Pavements	en
dc.subject.other	Thermography (imaging)	en
dc.subject.other	In situ tests	en
dc.subject.other	Materials engineering	en
dc.subject.other	Transportation engineering	en
dc.subject.other	Airports	en
dc.title	Evaluation of airport pavements using NDT approaches	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1117/12.719210	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.719210	en
heal.identifier.secondary	65410K	en
heal.publicationDate	2007	en
heal.abstract	Corrosion of airport pavements is a major problem involved with materials engineering and transportation engineering. Airport pavements frequently start to deteriorate slowly primarily, gradually progressing to failure. Such failure can be expensive in terms of both money and lives, but can also be prevented. For that reason, intelligent techniques should be suggested, with the intention of examining the condition of such engineering structures. IR thermography and ground penetrating radar are two NDT (non-destructive testing) techniques that have the ability to inspect effectively substantial areas, such as airport pavements. In this work, two different airport pavements located at the International Airport of Athens, in Greece, were investigated by the use of the above two mentioned techniques. Successful detection of cracks, voids and other imperfections appearing either from the aging of the materials or due to poor workmanship was attained. Furthermore, this paper describes the problem of deteriorated airport pavements, shows the process and the apparatus used for the in situ tests, and finally presents results obtained from the investigations.	en
heal.journalName	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1117/12.719210	en
dc.identifier.volume	6541	en