PUBLICATIONS

The following articles and publications provide additional information:

Two part series of articles in Public Roads Magazine:
Studying the Reliability of Bridge Inspection
(November/December 2000)
Reliability of Visual Bridge Inspection
(March/April 2001)

Bridge Study Analyzes Accuracy of Visual Inspections
from Focus, January 2001

Detection and Sizing of Cracks in Structural Steel Using the Eddy Current Method
FHWA-RD-00-018, November 2000

Developing NDE Technologies for Infrastructure Assessment
by Glenn Washer
This Public Roads article provides a comprehensive overview of NDE technologies for the inspection and evaluation of highway infrastructure.

Highway Bridge Inspection: State-of-Practice Survey
FHWA-RD-01-033, April 2001

Phenomenology Study of HERMES Ground Penetrating Radar Technology for Detection and Identification of Common Bridge Deck Features
FHWA-RD-01-090, June 2001

Reliability of Visual Inspection for Highway Bridges
Volume I: Final Report (FHWA-RD-01-020, June 2001)
Volume II: Appendices (FHWA-RD-1-021, June 2001)
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Techbrief: Reliability of Visual Inspection for Highway Bridges Volume I: Final Report and Volume II: Appendices(FHWA-RD-01-020 and -021)

Azevedo, S.A, Mast, J.R., Nelson, S.D., Rosenbury, E.T., Jones, H.E., McEwan, T.E., Mullenhoff, D.J., Hugenberger, R.E., Stever, R.D., Warhus, J.P. and Weitung, M.G., "HERMES: A high-speed radar imaging system for inspection of bridge decks," in Nondestructive Evaluation of Bridges and Highways, Steve B. Chase, Editor, Proc. SPIE 2946, 195-204, 1996.

Chase, S.B. and Washer, G., "Nondestructive evaluation for bridge management in the next century," Public Roads, Bob Bryant, Editor, 61(1), 16-25, Federal Highway Administration, Washington D.C., July/August, 1997.

Davidson, N.C. and Chase, S.B., "Radar tomography of bridge decks," in Structural Materials Technology III: An NDT Conference, Ronald D. Medlock, David C. Laffrey, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3400, 250-256,1998.

Davidson, N.C. and Chase, S.B., "Radar systems for tomographic bridge deck inspection," in Proceedings of Seventh Conference on Ground-Penetrating Radar, Lawrence, Kansas, May 27-30, 1998.

Johansson, E.M. and Mast, J.E., "Three-dimensional ground penetrating radar imaging using synthetic aperture time-domain focusing, in Advanced Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Detectors," Satish S. Udpa, Hsiu C. Han, Editors, Proc. SPIE 2275, 205-214, 1994.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Laser Engineering Division, "Micropower Impulse Radar (MIR) Technology Overview." Web site: http://www-lasers.llnl.gov/lasers/idp/mir/overview.html, 1995.

Mast, J., "Microwave pulse-echo radar imaging for the nondestructive evaluation of civil structures," PhD Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993.

Mast, J. E. and Johansson, E. M., "Three-dimensional ground-penetrating radar imaging using multi-frequency diffraction tomography," in Advanced Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Detectors, Satish S. Udpa, Hsiu C. Han, Editors, Proc. SPIE 2275, 196-203, 1994.

Washer, G.A., "Developments for the Non-Destructive Evaluation of Highway Bridges in the United States," Proc. of Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering, NDT-CE '97, Liverpool, UK, April 8-11, 543-552, 1997.

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