Progress in monitoring the debonding within pavement structures during accelerated pavement testing on the fatigue carousel

Abstract

The paper gives an overview of the ongoing experiment to survey debonding areas within pavement structure during accelerated pavement testing on the Ifsttar’s fatigue carrousel. Several defects have been embedded during the construction phase and have been probed by different NDT techniques. Among them, the paper focuses on radar NDT&E techniques which have been used to detect and locate the artificial defects at the early stage of the experiment and then to perform the survey at different loading cycles. Besides, the test-site has been used to test different GPR materials, including the 3D GPR technology. The experiment has also motivated some related studies in the field of GPR data modelling and data processing, which are summarized in the paper. The experiment is expected to be pursued beyond 300 loading kcycles to reach larger pavement degradations.