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.