A Plan for Developing High-Speed, Nondestructive Testing Procedures for Both Design Evaluation and Construction Inspection

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R06-RW: A Plan for Developing High-Speed, Nondestructive Testing Procedures for Both Design Evaluation and Construction Inspection examines existing and emerging nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies and their current state of implementation to satisfy the NDE needs for highway renewal.

The report also explores a research plan for the development of NDE technologies to address the most pertinent needs for bridges, pavements, tunnels, soils, and retaining walls through the life of the facility.

Report S2-R06-RW is only available in electronic format.

SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06, which oversaw production of Report S2-R06-RW, spawned seven follow-up projects to the report.  Reports on the seven follow-up projects that are currently available include the following:

• SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06A, which has released SHRP 2 Report S2-R06A-RR-1: Nondestructive Testing to Identify Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration that identifies nondestructive testing technologies for detecting and characterizing common forms of deterioration in concrete bridge decks.

• SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06B, which has released SHRP 2 Report S2-R06B-RR-1: Evaluating Applications of Field Spectroscopy Devices to Fingerprint Commonly Used Construction Materials that documents evaluation results of practical, portable spectroscopic equipment for in-situ analysis of a wide range of commonly used construction materials.

• SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06C, which has released SHRP 2 Report S2-R06C-RR-1: Using Infrared and High-Speed Ground-Penetrating Radar for Uniformity Measurements on New HMA Layers that explores infrared imaging and ground-penetrating radar technologies as nondestructive techniques to assess hot mix asphalt (HMA) density and degree of segregation.

• SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06D, which has released SHRP 2 Report S2-R06D-RR-1: Nondestructive Testing to Identify Delaminations between HMA Layers that catalog existing continuous deflection measuring technologies, assesses the capabilities of select devices; includes case studies that illustrate the application of the technology for supporting various pavement management decision-making processes; and highlights potential future research needs in the area of continuous pavement deflection measuring technologies.

• SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06E, which has released SHRP 2 Report S2-R06E-RR-1: Real-Time Smoothness Measurements on Portland Cement Concrete Pavements During Construction that explores real-time smoothness measuring technologies for concrete paving.

• SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06F, which has released SHRP 2 Report S2-R06F-RW-1: Assessment of Continuous Pavement Deflection Measuring Technologies that documents the results of an evaluation of practical portable spectroscopic equipment for in-situ analysis of a wide range of commonly used construction materials.