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Titel |
COST Action TU1208 “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar”: ongoing research activities and third-year results |
VerfasserIn |
Lara Pajewski, Andrea Benedetto, Andreas Loizos, Fabio Tosti |
Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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Sprache |
en
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Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
Datensatznummer |
250137297
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Publikation (Nr.) |
EGU/EGU2016-18517.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
This work aims at disseminating the ongoing research activities and third-year results of the
COST (European COoperation in Science and Technology) Action TU1208 “Civil
Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar.” About 350 experts are participating
to the Action, from 28 COST Countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta,
Macedonia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom), and from Albania,
Armenia, Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Jordan, Israel, Philippines, Russia,
Rwanda, Ukraine, and United States of America. In September 2014, TU1208 has been
recognised among the running Actions as “COST Success Story” (“The Cities of
Tomorrow: The Challenges of Horizon 2020,” September 17-19, 2014, Torino,
IT - A COST strategic workshop on the development and needs of the European
cities).
The principal goal of the COST Action TU1208 is to exchange and increase scientific-technical
knowledge and experience of GPR techniques in civil engineering, whilst simultaneously
promoting throughout Europe the effective use of this safe and non-destructive technique in
the monitoring of infrastructures and structures.
Moreover, the Action is oriented to the following specific objectives and expected
deliverables: (i) coordinating European scientists to highlight problems, merits and limits of
current GPR systems; (ii) developing innovative protocols and guidelines, which will
be published in a handbook and constitute a basis for European standards, for an
effective GPR application in civil- engineering tasks; safety, economic and financial
criteria will be integrated within the protocols; (iii) integrating competences for the
improvement and merging of electromagnetic scattering techniques and of data-
processing techniques; this will lead to a novel freeware tool for the localization
of buried objects, shape-reconstruction and estimation of geophysical parameters
useful for civil engineering needs; (iv) networking for the design, realization and
optimization of innovative GPR equipment; (v) comparing GPR with different NDT
techniques, such as ultrasonic, radiographic, liquid-penetrant, magnetic-particle,
acoustic-emission and eddy-current testing; (vi) comparing GPR technology and
methodology used in civil engineering with those used in other fields; (vii) promotion of
a more widespread, advanced and efficient use of GPR in civil engineering; and
(viii) organization of a high-level modular training program for GPR European
users.
Four Working Groups (WGs) carry out the research activities. WG 1 focuses on the design of
innovative GPR equipment, on the building of prototypes and on the testing and optimisation
of new systems. WG 2 focuses on the GPR surveying of pavement, bridges, tunnels and
buildings, as well as on the sensing of underground utilities and voids. WG 3 deals with the
development of electromagnetic forward and inverse scattering methods, for the
characterization of GPR scenarios, as well as with data-processing algorithms for the
elaboration of the data collected during GPR surveys. WG 4 works on the use of
GPR in fields different from the civil engineering, as well as on the integration
of GPR with other non-destructive testing techniques. Each WG includes several
Projects.
COST Action TU1208 is active through a range of networking tools: meetings, workshops,
conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions, dissemination activities. For
more information on COST Action TU1208, please visit www.GPRadar.eu and
www.cost.eu.
Acknowledgement
The Authors wish to thank COST, for funding the COST Action TU1208 “Civil engineering
applications of Ground Penetrating Radar." |
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