Thermal Integrity Profiling of Concrete Foundations

When: Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Who should attend:
Geotechnical, structural and construction engineers; contractors, researchers and students interested in or having the need for a full integrity analysis of drilled deep foundations, including evaluation of the concrete cover outside the reinforcing cage.

You will have the opportunity to learn from Mr. George Piscsalko without having to leave your desk.

George Piscsalko is the Vice President and Chief Electrical Engineer for Pile Dynamics, Inc.

He is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Ohio, Michigan, and New Jersey. He has an experience of 29 years in designing test equipment for the deep foundation industry. He has been involved in the design and development of foundation test equipment including the Pile Driving Analyzer® (PDA) system, Pile Integrity Tester (PIT), Cross Hole Analyzer (CHA), and Thermal Integrity Profiler (TIP) for drilled shafts and ACIP piles as well as the Pile Installation Recorder (PIR) for ACIP piles. He holds US Patents for the design of the Remote Pile Driving Analyzer and the Thermal Wire®cable system.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the webinar attendees will be able to:

• Describe the basic principles of integrity evaluation using thermal measurements
• Collect data by various methods
• Evaluate eccentricity of cage alignment in the shaft
• Evaluate the measurements for local defects (in cross section or concrete quality)
• Describe the conversion process of temperature to effective shaft radius
• Recommended time window for testing after casting concrete
• Compare and contrast the advantages of thermal measurements, conventional Crosshole Sonic Logging (CSL), Low Strain Integrity Testing,and Gamma-Gamma testing of drilled shafts and ACIP/CFA piles.

Syllabus:

• Motivation for integrity testing
• Advantages and limitations of CSL, Low Strain Integrity Testing, Gamma-Gamma and Thermal testing
• Principles of thermal measurements
• Interpretation of test data
• Test procedures
• Comparisons of Thermal and CSL/Gamma-Gamma results
• Examples / Case studies’

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