ASEP Continuing Education Lecture: Geophysical Methods in Civil Engineering – Practical Applications

ASEP Continuing Education Summit 2012 invites you to a lecture on:

What: CEL-06: Geophysical Methods in Civil Engineering – Practical Applications

When: June 9, 2012

Time: 13:30 – 15:00

Where: La Breza Hotel, QC

Who: Resource Speaker – Emilio M. Morales, CE, MSCE, F.PICE. F.ASCE, F.ASEP

About the Lecture:

Geophysical methods are generally noninvasive or nondestructive methods long used in the construction industry for investigation of the subsurface. Principally, these are used for the detection of geologic anomalies such as cavities and voids, detection of buried pipes and other utilities, detection of water bearing aquifers for well development, exploitation of quarries and in determining soil stratification or layering. In addition, the methods provide a means for verifying as constructed pavement thicknesses in a continuous unbroken image of the pavement structural configuration or determining rebar embedment and layout non-destructively.

The use of geophysical methods confers advantages as they generally speed up the process of investigation, provide continuous streams of information not otherwise available in discrete sampling or invasive procedures and give advance information on what to expect for a given locality before a more detailed and costly soil exploration is even planned. Thus geophysical methods are a force multiplier for the engineer and allow the user to identify potential problem areas or target areas even before the start of a detailed Soil Exploration program.

Geophysical methods are not a replacement to a detailed soil exploration program; rather they augment these programs to yield more meaningful and area extensive but more intensive information at the fraction of the time and cost.

The Paper discusses three general methods which have been employed by the authors in various projects. Case histories are discussed to highlight successful deployment of these methods in the Construction Industry.

About the Lecturer:

Emilio M. Morales CE, MSCE, F.PICE. F.ASCE, F.ASEP, is the Principal of EM2A Partners & Co., Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pa., and a PhD Candidate at the  Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok Thailand.  He is formerly Senior Lecturer, UP Graduate Division, School of Civil Engineering, Diliman, Quezon City.  For more details, please visit the website: www.pgatech.com.ph

E-mail address: em2apartners@gmail.com.