Concrete Inspection with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

Baker Testing offers Ground Penetrating Radar inspection services as an alternate to radiography of concrete. With our GSSI Structure Scan II system, we can accurately detect and locate rebar, conduit, cables, and voids in concrete and other non-conductive materials.

To map large areas or to locate target free regions for coring, Ground Penetrating Radar is a valuable inspection system that operates with access to a single surface allowing slabs on grade to be analyzed as well as roof, floor, or wall structures.

When passed across inspection areas, the GPR antenna emits radio pulses that are reflected by embedded structures. From a series of scans, target depth and spacing can be accurately determined and laid out directly on the surface for trouble free coring, cutting and structural analysis.

In areas where complex or crowded target patterns exist, scanned data may be downloaded into a laptop which generates plan view images with 1" depth slices up to 12" deep. In most cases, embedded structures can be located and marked out directly from the SIR 2000 system screen to depths of up to 2'.