GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR MEASURING PAVEMENT LAYER THICKNESS

This paper describes a new tool that highway agencies and contractors now have for estimating the remaining service life of pavements and selecting the appropriate maintenance and rehabilitation activities. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system can collect pavement layer thickness data quickly, unobtrusively, and inexpensively. Using GPR, pavement management engineers can survey subsurface conditions at a small fraction of the cost of conventional core sampling and gather data for network level pavement management.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/asstmgmt/gprbroc.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14089
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 4 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ground penetrating radar; Pavement maintenance; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Rehabilitation (Maintenance); Service life
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00799283
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HIF-00-015
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 28 2000 12:00AM