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PUBLICATIONS
The following technical reports, articles, and publications provide additional information about the R&D work at the Federal highway Administration (FHWA) Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Center:
FHWA NDE Center’s Technical Reports
Laboratory and Field Testing of Automated Ultrasonic Testing (AUT) Systems for Steel Highway Bridges, FHWA HRT-04-124, April 2005
Guidelines for Ultrasonic Inspection of Hanger Pins, FHWA-HRT-04-042, July 2004
Reliability of Visual Inspection for Highway Bridges
Volume I: Final Report (FHWA-RD-01-020, June 2001)
Volume II: Appendices (FHWA-RD-1-021, June 2001)
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Techbrief: Reliability of Visual Inspection for Highway Bridges Volume I: Final Report and Volume II: Appendices (FHWA-RD-01-020 and-021)Phenomenology Study of HERMES Ground Penetrating Radar Technology for Detection and Identification of Common Bridge Deck Features, FHWA-RD-01-090, June 2001
Highway Bridge Inspection: State-of-Practice Survey, FHWA-RD-01-033, April 2001
Detection and Sizing of Cracks in Structural Steel Using the Eddy Current Method
FHWA-RD-00-018, November 2000
Other Technical Reports
Defects in Drilled Shaft Foundations – Identification, Imaging, and Characterization, FHWA-CFL/TD-05-002, March 2005
Application of Geophysical Methods to Highway Related Problems - Final Report and Web Manual, FHWA-IF-04-021, August 2004
Magazine Articles
FHWA Launches Steel Bridge Testing Program
from Focus (September 2007)Reliability of Visual Bridge Inspection
from Public Roads (March/April 2001)Bridge Study Analyzes Accuracy of Visual Inspections
from Focus (January 2001)Studying the Reliability of Bridge Inspection
from Public Roads (November/December 2000)Developing NDE Technologies for Infrastructure Assessment
from Public Roads (January/February 2000)Nondestructive Evaluation for Bridge Management in the Next Century
fromPublic Roads (July/August 1997)
Conference and Journal Publications
Jalinoos F., “Improving Inspectability and Measurability of Bridges for Periodic Structural Health Monitoring,” World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, Chongqing and Nanjing, China, May 22-27, 2007.
Jalinoos F., Rezai, A., Moore, M., “Nondestructive Detection and Evaluation of Cracking in Steel Bridges,” American Society of Nondestructive Testing Research Symposium, Orlando, Florida, 2006.
Jalinoos F., Haramy K.Y., “Temperature Monitoring of Drilled Shaft Foundations Using Wireline Logging,” 7th Structural Material Testing Conference, Saint Louis, MO, 2006.
Fuchs, P.A., Jalinoos F., “Laser System Measurements on the FHWA Curved Girder Bridge,”, 7th Structural Material Testing Conference, Saint Louis, MO, 2006.
Prader J., Grimmelsman, K., Jalinoos, F., Ghasemi, H., Burrows, S., Taylor J., Liss, F., Moon, F., Aktan, E., “Load Testing and Rating of Undocumented Reinforced Concrete Bridges,” 7th Structural Material Testing Conference, Saint Louis, MO, 2006.
Jalinoos F., Gibson A, Diehl, J., Hadfield P., Gordon G., “Determination of Unknown Length of Sheet Piles Using Three Geophysical Logging Methods,” Geophysics Conference, Saint Louis, MO, 2006
Samtani, N. C., Jalinoos, F., Poland, D., “Integrity Testing of Drilled Shafts – Existing and New Techniques,” International Association of Foundation Drilling (ADSC) GEO3 Conference, Dallas, Texas, 2005.
Paul Fuchs, Glenn Washer, Steve Chase, “Load Testing Work at FHWA,” TRB Annual Meeting, 2004.
Rezai, A., Jalinoos, F., Moore, M., “NDE of Cracks in Steel Bridges,” Accepted for the ASNT Fall Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2007.
Rezai, A., Washer, G., Moore, M., Ghasemi, H., “Innovative Ultrasonic Testing Method for Quality Control of Workmanship in Butt-Welds During Fabrication of Steel bridge Girders,” ConMat’05 3rd International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August 2005.
Washer, G., Fuchs, P., Rezai, A., Ghasemi, H., “Ultrasonic Measurement of the Elastic Properties of Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC),” SPIE International Symposia, Smart Structures and Materials NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, March 2005.
Rezai, A., Washer, G., Moore, M., “Steel Bridge Fabrication Inspection by Automated UT,” ASNT Fall Conference, Las Vegas, NV, November 2004.
Rezai, A., Washer, G., Moore, M., “Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Automated Ultrasonic Testing for inspection of Butt-Welds during Fabrication,” Structural Materials Technology: NDE/NDT for Highway and Bridges, Buffalo, NY, September 2004.
Washer, G., Fuchs, P., Graybeal, B., Rezai, A., “Nondestructive Evaluation of High Performance Materials,” Symposium of Innovative Bridge Materials and Construction, Greenwood Village, CO, April 2004.
Washer, G., Fuchs, P., Graybeal, B., Rezai, A., “Nondestructive Evaluation of Reactive Powder Concrete,” Review of Progress in QNDE, Vol. 23, July 2003.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Delahaza, A., Moore, M., Graybeal, B., Washer, G., “A Comparison of Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Deck Assessment,” Journal Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, London, UK 2002.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Delahaza, A., Moore, M., Graybeal, B., Washer, G., “A Comparison of Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Bridge Deck Assessment,” Structural Faults + Repair, 9th International Conference & Exhibition, London, UK, July 2001.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Moore, M., Washer, G., “A Phenomenology Study of Ground Penetrating Radar Responses to Simulated Bridge Deck Distress,” Structural Faults + Repair, 9th International Conference & Exhibition, London, UK, July 2001.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Moore, M., Washer, G., “A Phenomenology Study of Ground Penetrating Radar Responses to Simulated Bridge Deck Distresss,” ASNT Spring Conference, Denver, CO, March 2001.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Moore, M., Washer, G., “Imaging Subsurface Bridge Deck Defects Using HERMES and PERES Ground Penetrating Radar Technology,” ACI Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, Oct. 2000.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Moore, M., Washer, G., “The HERMES Bridge Inspector Project,” Reference Manual, Geophysics 2000.
Scott, M., Rezai, A., Moore, M., Washer, G., “Imaging Internal Bridge Deck Features Using Ground Penetrating Radar Computed Tomography,” ASNT 2000 Spring Conference, Birmingham, AL, March 2000.
Jin, S. and R. A. Livingston, “Application of Chaos Theory Analysis to Smart Structure Techniques for Highway Infrastructures,” International Workshop on Smart Structures, Chongqing, China: in press, 2007.
Jin, S. and R. A. Livingston, “Application of Polynomial Chaoses to Analyze the Nonlinear Behavior in Structural Health Monitoring of Highway Infrastructures,” 6th Intenational Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CA, DesTech: in press, 2007.
Jin S. and R. A. Livingston, “Chaos theory analysis of a cable-stayed bridge: Part I- Finite element model development,” SPIE Smart Structures, San Diego, CA, SPIE, 2007
Jin S., R. A. Livingston, D. Marzougui, “Energy Index Approach for Damage Detection in Nonlinear Highway Structures,” SPIE Smart Structures, Los Angeles, SPIE, 2000.
Jin S., R. A, Livingston, D. Marzougui, “Lyapunov exponent maps applied to damage detection of aging nonlinear highway infrastructure,” Smart Structures and Materials, Los Angeles, CA, SPIE, In press, 2001.
Jin S., R. A. Livingston, D. Marzougui, “Stochastic system invariant spectrum analysis of applied to smart systems in highway bridges,” Smart Structures and Materials, Los Angeles, CA, SPIE, In press, 2001.
Livingston, R. A. and S. Jin, “Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge for Structural Health Monitoring,” Structural Health Monitoring, Lancaster, PA, Technomics Publishing Co., in press, 2001.
Livingston, R. A. and S. Jin, “Analysis of the effect of transient modal shifts due to vehicle-bridge interactions on the bridge dynamical impact factor,” Structural Health Monitoring, Lancaster, PA, DEStech: 1484-1491, 2003.
Livingston, R. A. and S. Jin, “Fractal Interpolation Method for Maximum Entropy Analysis of Chaotic Structural Response Data,” Structural Health Monitoring, Lancaster, PA, DESTech Publications, Inc., 197-204, 2003.
Livingston, R. A. and S. Jin, “CTBR: Application Software For Chaos Theory Analysis Of Bridge Response Monitoring Data,” Structural Materials and Technology, Buffalo, NY, 447-448, 2004.
Livingston, R. A. and S. Jin, “Application of a maximum entropy method to estimate the probability density function of nonlinear or chaotic behavior in structural health monitoring data,” SPIE Smart Structures, San Diego CA, SPIE, 749-757, 2005.
Livingston R. A. and S. Jin, “Application of Chaos Theory Analysis to Accelerometer Data Sets,” Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, DEStech Publications, Inc: 531-538, 2005.
Livingston R. A. and S. Jin, “Chaos Theory Analysis of Cable-Stayed Bridge Vibrations,” Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, 61742I-2, 2006.
Livingston R. A. and S. Jin, “Nonlinear Dynamics Simulation of Local Chaotic Behavior in the Bill Emerson Cable-Stayed Bridge,” NDE Conference on Civil Engineering, St. Louis, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, 26-33, 2006.
Livingston R. A. and S. Jin, “Application of Chaos Theory to Evaluate Possible Instability Conditions in Cable-Stayed Bridges,” 18th Engineering Mechanics Division Conference, Blacksburg VA, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007.
Livingston R. A. and S. Jin, “Chaos theory analysis of a cable-stayed bridge: Part II - Analysis of monitoring data for base-line conditions,” SPIE Smart Structures, San Diego, CA, SPIE, 2007.
Livingston R. A. and S. Jin, “Comparison of Numerical Simulations of Chaotic Behavior in Structural Health Monitoring of Cable-Stayed Bridge with Field Data,” 6th Intenational Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CA, DesTech, in press, 2007.
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