BE Aerospace – GPR Project, Winston-Salem, NC

When an aerospace design and testing company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina needed to redesign their testing sled, they wanted to do so without damaging any reinforcing in their concrete. The reasoning for this is because that concrete is indirectly absorbing the force of a plane crash several times a day, every day. In order to strongly secure the redesigned components without damaging any reinforcing, they contracted Ground Penetrating Radar Systems out of Charlotte, North Carolina. On site GPRS was able to identify and label all of the rebar quickly and accurately mapping the location and the depth of the reinforcing steel directly onto the surface. Furthermore, because there is no radiation hazard associated with GPR, the facility did not have to remove other people from working in the area.

Mitch is performing a GPR concrete scan in the area adjacent to the test sled.

Mitch Ross runs GPRS operations in the Mid-Atlantic Region. He is based in Charlotte, NC and he can be reached at (704)501-7089 or by email at mitch.ross@gp-radar.com. Concrete scanning for the purposes of identifying the location of rebar and post-tensioning is the most frequent service performed by the GPR technicians at GPRS.

Mitch Ross will plot the location of the reinforcing steel directly onto the concrete surface using the structure scan GPR system from GSSI. This is the SIR-3000 system with a 1.6 GHz antenna, used for concrete analysis and imaging.