Bridge Deck Surveys

Overview

Macleod Simmonds is now offering Bridge Deck Surveys. Our unparalleled experience and expertise in the use of towed and hand-pushed HDAGPR (High Density Array Ground Probing Radar) solutions has been proving to be very useful when applied to highway structures, such as bridges. 

How Bridge Deck Surveys Work

Our Bridge Deck Surveys utilise the industry leading Kontur Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology, used in conjunction with the incredibly powerful processing and reporting solution, Examiner. With this technology, we can now provide our clients with more useful information and more accuracy than was previously possible.  

This Bridge Deck Assessment service is applied from the surface of the bridge deck, in live traffic. Additionally, it can be combined with a Structural GPR survey to provide a far more detailed insight into the entire (accessible) structure.  

Benefits of Bridge Deck Surveys

• Safe, accurate and reliable data collection in live traffic.

• Entire bridge decks scanned without compromising traffic flows.  

• Understanding of asphalt material layer thicknesses across the width and length of the deck.  

• Detection, positioning, depth and highlighting of reinforcing and post tension cables.  

• Detection, positioning and highlighting of anomalies such as delamination, voids, construction material changes and inconsistencies.  

• Location of amplitude variations due to moisture concentrations.

• Position and concentration of subsurface cracking