What is NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE)?

IDENTIFY VULNERABILITIES, REDUCE RISKS, AND IMPROVE YOUR ASSET MANAGEMENT PROCESSES.

Our structural nondestructive evaluation (NDE) division is equipped with a wide range of specialized and innovative technologies for evaluating the in-situ condition of a structure and materials.

What We Measure

on Structural Elements With NDE

CONCRETE

Condition and Integrity Assessment – Voids, Delamination, Spalling           
Concrete thickness and dimension measurement     
Steel reinforcement mapping 
Steel reinforcement integrity evaluation    
Steel reinforcement corrosion assessment     
Chloride content measurement 
Concrete core sampling –  CORING
Construction QA/QC 

STEEL

Steel thickness measurement   
Steel weld inspection            
Steel mechanical property measurement  –  Hardness and Fatigue Testing, Fatigue Crack Inspection

TIMBER

Timber integrity assessment       VISUAL
Timber pile length and size measurement      

GEOPHYSICAL

Unknown Foundation dimension measurement     
Soil stiffness profiling   
Utility Location  

How We Measure

Structural Elements With NDE

Concrete
+ Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
+ Infrared Thermography (IRT)
+ Impact Echo (IE)
+ Deck Acoustic Response (SounDAR) – Automated IE for concrete surfaces
+ Ultrasonic Tomography with MIRA
+ Half-Cell Potential Testing (HCP)
+ Impulse Response (IR)
+ Electrical Resistivity (ER)
+ Rapid Chloride Testing (RCT)
And much more...
Steel
+ Ultrasonic Testing (UT)
+ Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT)
+ Full Matrix Capture / Total Focus Method (FMC/TFM)
+ Magnetic Particle (MT)
+ Dye Penetrant (PT)
+ Hardness and Fatigue Testing
+ Radiography (RT)
+ Fatigue Crack Inspection
Timber
+ Visual/Vibration
+ Microboring
+ Sonic Echo-Impulse Response (SEIR)
+ Ultraseismic Testing (US)
+ Parallel Seismic Testing (PS)
+ Integrity Testing
Geophysical
+ Mapping of Unknown Foundations
+ Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves (SASW)
+ Crosshole Sonic Logging (CSL)
+ Parallel Seismic Survey (PS)
+ Low-Frequency GPR

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Innovative Solutions

Deck Acoustic Response (DAR) System

Identify delaminations and other defects in bridge decks and other concrete structures with automated acoustic testing. Refined models built on considerable validation data power the high-speed analytics behind the defect mappings that SounDAR produces, ensuring accurate repair estimates and fast turnaround in reporting.

Multi-technology Approach to bridge deck NDE

Aerial imaging, vehicle-based NDE scanning, and traditional testing methods are strategically combined to deliver quantitative information for improved asset management.

Structural and Subsurface Spillway Inspection Services

MITIGATING RISK AND MAINTAINING PUBLIC SAFETY BY PROVIDING DAM SPILLWAY OWNERS WITH A FULL ASSESSMENT OF THEIR STRUCTURE

Fusing multiple structural nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques and deploying efficient data collections methods, spillway owners can receive a detailed and complete mapping of both the integrity of the spillway structure itself and the geophysical conditions below the spillway.

Where It Applies

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BRIDGE DECK EVALUATION

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HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES

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CONSTRUCTION

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BUILDINGS

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PAVEMENT

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