NON-DESTRUCTIVE PAVEMENT LAYER THICKNESS MEASUREMENT USING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION WITH GPR.pdfVIP

Vo1．31No．6 JOURNALOFELECTRONICS(CHINA) December2014 NON．DESTRUCTIVE I VEMENT LAYER THICKNESSM EASUREM ENT USING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION W ITH GPR LiQiang ChenJie LiuXiaojun FangGuangyou (KeyLaboratoryofElectromagneticRadiationandSensingTechnology，InstituteofElectronics ChineseAcademy Sciences，Beijing100190，China) (UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences，Beijing100049，China) Abstract GroundPenetratingRadar(GPR)isaneffectiveNon-DestructiveTesting(NDT)technique forhighwaypavementsurveys，which isableto acquirecontinuouspavementdata comparedwith traditionalcoredrillingmethod．In thisstudy，weproposedan accurateand efficientmethod to es— timatethethicknessofeachpavementlayerusinganair—coupledGPR system ．Forthiswork，themain difflcultiesareestimatingeachpavementlayer’stimedelayanddielectricconstant．、~ firstgivethe basicsignalmodelforpavementevaluation，andthenpresentanIntrinsicModeFunctions(IMFs) productdetectortodetermineeachpavementlayer’stimedelay．Thismethod isbasedon Empirical ModeDecomposition(EMD)，whichisanadaptivesignaldecompositionprocedureandprovedtobe suitableofrsuppressingnoises in GPR signa1．The dielectric constantwasdetermined bymetal reflectionmeasurement．Thelaboratoryandhighwayexperimentsillustratethattheproposedthickness estimationmethodyieldsreasonableresult，thusmeetstherequirementsofpracticalhighwaypavem ent surveywithmassiveGPR data． Keywords GroundPenetratingRadar(GPR)；Pavementthickness；Non-DestructiveTesting(NDT) Dielectricconstant；EmpiricalModeDecomposition(EMD) CLC index TN957 DOI 10．1007／s11767—014—4026—5 I．Introduction videslimited pavementthicknessinofrmation on Pavementlayerthicknessmeasurementisoneof the discontinuous test po