Nondestructive Electrical Resistivity Method to Map the Drainage System of Football Playgrounds
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 23, Issue 5
Abstract
Geophysical surveys could contribute significantly to remediation programs for damaged buried engineering structures. Resistivity profiling and mapping techniques used in this work allow rapid and one of the most cost-effective ways of characterization and visualization of internal defects of drainage and watering systems of football playgrounds in a nondestructive way. Cost-effective and nondestructive testing can be valuable assets for diagnosis, realization, and restoration of football playgrounds.
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Acknowledgments
Special appreciation is expressed to the intern students of Tuğba KIRBAŞ, Tuğba TÜRKER, and Türker YILDIZ for their help in the field. The writer also thank an anonymous reviewer for the helpful comments that improved the final manuscript.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 23 • Issue 5 • October 2009
Pages: 303 - 308
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Dec 16, 2008
Accepted: Mar 21, 2009
Published online: Mar 28, 2009
Published in print: Oct 2009
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