Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar

Andrea Benedetto is Associate Professor of Roads, Railways and Airports at the Department of Engineering of Roma Tre University, Italy.

Design of Advanced GPR Equipment for Civil Engineering Applications.- Antennas for GPR Systems.- Innovative inspection procedures for effective GPR surveying of critical transport infrastructures.- Inspection Procedures for Effective GPR Surveying of Buildings.- Inspection Procedures for Effective GPR Sensing and Mapping of Underground.- Effective GPR Inspection Procedures for Construction Materials and Structures.- Determination, by Using GPR, of the Volumetric Water Content in Structures, Substructures, Foundations and Soil.- Methods for the electromagnetic forward scattering by buried objects.- Development of intrinsic models for describing near-field antenna effects, including antenna-medium coupling, for improved radar data processing using full-wave inversion.- GPR imaging via qualitative and quantitative approaches.- GPR Data Processing Techniques.- Applications of GPR for Humanitarian Assistance and Security.- Applications of GPR in association with other non-destructive testing methods in surveying of transport infrastructures.- Advanced electric and electromagnetic methods for the characterization of soil.- Applications of radar systems in Planetary Sciences: an overview.