Road pavement density measurements using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): Simulation analysis

Author

Abdullah, RSA Raja ; Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd ; Roslee, Mardeni

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Syst., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Putra

fYear

2007

fDate

4-6 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes a simulation of ground penetrating radar (GPR) nondestructive method at frequency range of 1.7-2.6 GHz to predict density for various road pavement samples. The method used is very simple, fast, contactless and accurate way to determine the density of road pavement. In this work we used frequency range between 1.7-2.6 GHz due to the high penetration in road pavement. The MATLAB software is used to analyze the simulation data and also for the graphs comparisons. An instantaneous method for measuring the density of road pavement was developed by using microwave transmission/reflection technique and free space method at the chosen frequency. The GPR Mixture Model was used to predict the correlation between the attenuation to the parameters related such as effective permittivity, density and thickness.

Keywords

density measurement; ground penetrating radar; roads; GPR Mixture Model; MATLAB software; chosen frequency; free space method; frequency 1.7 GHz to 2.6 GHz; frequency range; graphs comparisons; ground penetrating radar; high penetration; instantaneous method; microwave transmission/reflection technique; nondestructive method; road pavement density measurements; simulation analysis; Analytical models; Data analysis; Density measurement; Frequency; Ground penetrating radar; MATLAB; Microwave measurements; Permittivity measurement; Predictive models; Roads; GPR Mixture Model; Ground Penetrating Radar; Road Pavement Density;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics, 2007. APACE 2007. Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1434-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1435-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APACE.2007.4603913

Filename

4603913