The GPR Technology on the Seisimic Damageability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Building

Use of Georadar methodologies and techniques has a big relevance in scientific environment, due to its potential in various fields of application. The aim of this paper is to show operational methodologies as obtained result of developing an application of radar techniques for: - Civil Engineering applications, with special regard to determining the internal morphology, the lack of homogeneity, defectiveness, and the location of the steel reinforcements within concrete; - Preventive characterization of soils and contextual mapping of subsoil, with a particular reference to structural safety. The test area is in southern part of Reggio Calabria, Italy. The system (RIS/S system) is composed of an acquisition apparatus and an computation system , seems to give good planimetric and 3D results in terms of objetct localization and positioning.