REPEATABLE AND COMPARABLE INSPECITON OF CONCRETE JOINTS

摘要

A joint inspection system is described herein that develops and implements a practical, rapid imaging system to detect the presence of contaminants or moisture on the adhesion surfaces of a joint and to identify the presence of micro-fractures, fractures, or anomalies that will affect the integrity of the concrete adjacent to the joint faces (elements that could develop into post-construction spalling). The system utilizes existing technologies to provide an accurate, comprehensive, permanent, reviewable, comparable, location-identifiable imagery of the joint channel and the pavement surfaces immediately adjacent to the channel. The system facilitates the gathering of information (imagery) completely unavailable by current state-of-the-art inspection procedures.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method to inspect a concrete joint, the method comprising:
identifying a location and job where an operator has deployed a joint inspection system to perform an inspection of a concrete joint; detecting one or more ambient conditions relevant to the joint inspection for association with data collected during the joint inspection; recording the identified location and ambient conditions for association with all of the data collected during the joint inspection; while moving along the length of a pavement joint:
capturing moisture sensor data that identifies moisture information within the joint;capturing fracture sensor data that identifies micro-fractures within or on the surface of the joint; andstoring the collected sensor data and recorded location and conditions for subsequent use by one or more analyzers of the data, wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor.