Existing Structures Assessment
Course Code: EM57
Course Objective
- Understand more about NDT equipment through handson experience.
- Diagnose problems and assess strengths and weaknesses of structural materials.
- Plan and conduct a condition survey for concrete, masonry, wood and metal structures.
- Develop a condition survey inspection checklist.
- Evaluate test data statistically.
- Learn how to effectively interpret and use destructive and nondestructive test results.
- Who Should attend:
- Design a materials evaluation program for your structural condition assessment projects.
- Select the best destructive and nondestructive testing techniques for your projects.
- Identify the limitations of various nondestructive testing techniques.
Target Audience
- Engineers
- Architects
- Designers
- Contractors
- Developers
- Inspectors
Course Outline
- Conducting a Condition Survey
- Planning the Evaluation
- Statistical Procedures
- Destructive and Nondestructive Testing for
- Concrete and Masonry
- Pros and Cons of Nondestructive Testing
- Establishing Strength and Quality of In-Place
- Concrete and Masonry
- Hands-on NDT Workshop
- Evaluating Cracks in Concrete and Masonry
- Analyzing Wet Masonry Walls
- Evaluating Corrosion
- Interpreting and Using Destructive and
- Nondestructive Test Results
- Conducting Condition Surveys of Wood and
- Metal Structures
- In-Place Evaluation of Wood-Based Materials and Metals
- Planning the Evaluation
- Inspection Procedures
- Destructive and Nondestructive Testing of Wood-Based Materials and Metals
- Establishing In-Place Strengths for Wood and Metals
- Understanding the Limitations of Nondestructive Testing
- Hands-on NDT Workshop
- Investigating Defects and Damage
- Evaluating Wood and Steel Connections
- Case Studies
- Interpretation and Use of NDT Results
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