The Environmental and Industrial Geophysics Group of The Geological
Society Meeting: Geophysics in Pavement Engineering and Mobile
Geophysics - 14th October, The Geological Society, Burlington House,
Piccadilly, London.
Registration: Geol Soc. Members free. £18 for non-members and £8 for
students, No pre-registration is required.
For further details contact: Chris Leech via e-mail at
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Meeting Program
09:30-10:30 Registration and Coffee
Keynote Speaker
10:30 GPR for Investigation of Road Structure – Results of Recent
Evaluations - Dr A. P. Annan, Sensors & Software Inc.
11:00 Experiences of surveying 2000 miles of roads using GPR
S Brightwell, Aperio Ltd.
11:25 Sub-pavement electrical imaging with the towed-array capacitive
resistivity technique - Dr Oliver Kuras, BGS.
11:50 Geophysics for sub pavement investigation - Dr Joe Lenham,
Reynolds Geoscience Ltd.
12:15 Experiences in putting together a multi –sensor platform for
rapid, moving survey of large paved and non-paved areas - Dr Ian Hill &
T Grossey, University of Leicester.
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch and E.I.G.G. AGM
14:00 Minimum delamination width for GPR - V Utsi, Utsi Electronics.
14:25 Current research on location of steel reinforcement in concrete
using GPR and Neural networks - Prof. J Bungey, Liverpool University.
14:50 Influence of Antenna Orientation on Radar testing of pre tensioned
concrete beams - Professor M C Forde - U of Edinburgh.
15:15 TBA: Dr A Ruffell & B Kulessa, Queens University of Belfast.
15:40-16:00 Tea
16:00 – 16:25 NDT of Concrete Pavements, an overview of applicable
techniques - T Goodier, BRE Watford.
16:25 – 16:50 Application of EM and geomechanical geophysics to
structure evaluation - Dr N Cassidy, Keele University.
16:50 – 17:15 The Application of Horn Antennas for High Speed Pavement
Surveys and the Processing of Horn Antenna Pavement Data - N Bell,
Allied Associates Geophysical Ltd.
17:15 discussion
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