Ground penetrating radar is a very useful device for locating buried systems, like underground utilities. It can help to create a map of things that lie below concrete slabs and is used to assist construction, maintenance and repair.

1. Ground Penetrating Radar Can
Help To Locate Underground
Utilities below Concrete Slabs

2. Ground penetrating radar is a very useful
device for locating buried systems, like
underground utilities. It can help to create a
map of things that lie below concrete slabs
and is used to assist construction,
maintenance and repair.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

3. Earlier systems for locating
underground piping used
metal detectors, but this
required the pipes to be
made of metal. With the use
of pipes made of PVC or
HDPE gaining a lot of
prominence, metal detectors
were not found to be useful,
and hence the greater use
of ground penetrating radar.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

4. This enables all the obstacles to any activity
to be known in advance, and assists in
planning of operations, so that time is rarely
wasted, and the digging to reach the location
limited to very precise locations.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

5. The equipment that helps
ground penetrating radar
transmits sound waves of
very high frequency, which
can penetrate ground to
several feet below and
concrete of some
thicknesses. These sound
waves then bounce back
to the receiver that is part
of this equipment.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

6. This gives information of
the depth to which the
sound waves have
reached, and the density
of the materials that are
hidden from view. The
equipment is calibrated
so that is can create a
detailed map of the
utilities which are hidden.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

7. There is virtually no limit to the utility of this
form of radar equipment, and besides
detecting pipelines and other utilities running
below ground or concrete slabs, it has been of
great help to archaeologists who can identify
the existence of objects below ground.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

8. Geologists use it to identify the various
types of soils below ground. Engineers use
it to penetrate concrete slab to judge the
rebar within the concrete and find it very
useful as a form of nondestructive testing,
when the structural capability of buildings is
in doubt.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/

9. Ground penetrating radar
equipment is expensive and
sophisticated and requires
the technicians using it to
be very well trained. Ensure
that any company that you
hire for this work has the
right technology, trained
staff and the experience in
carrying out the type of
work you want them to do.
More info on:
http://concretescanning.atlg.com.au/brisbane/