Electrical Resistivity and Induced Polarization Imaging for Unknown Bridge Foundations

AbstractScour is the removal of soil around bridge supports due to water flow during floods. One of the major problems with scour is in the case of unknown bridge foundations. Bridges with unknown foundations are listed in the National Bridge Inventory as having insufficient data for scour evaluation, particularly regarding foundation depth. Knowing the foundation depth is a critical component of scour risk assessment. Multiple nondestructive testing methods are currently used to determine the depth of unknown bridge foundations; however, many methods are hindered by the type of substructure. An advantage of using near-surface geophysical methods, specifically electrical resistivity (ER) and induced polarization (IP) imaging, is that the inversion processes yield subsurface images, thereby allowing the depth and, to a lesser extent, the foundation type to be seen. Unlike a majority of existing testing methods, ER and IP imaging do not physically use the structure so they are applicable to simple and compl...

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