APPLICATION OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING IN EVALUATING REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN BUILDINGS

Abstract

Of recent a large number of existing reinforced concrete buildings have required reconstruction, renovation andimprovement. This tendency poses a number of problems that have to be solved, the main one being to determine theactual strength condition of the structural components/elements of the building. It includes determination of the qualityof materials used, specification of the types and description of apparent faults and damages and extent of wear of thebuilding. To undertake this evaluation, non €“ destructive testing methods are used. In this paper, applications of non €“destructive testing methods to determine the strength state of reinforced concrete columns with corbels and to establishtheir structural strength so as to determine the capacity of a mobile crane to be installed is outlined.