NDT assessment of pylon foundations of the Swiss power grid
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Pietro Brenni
(Brenni Engineering, Ticino, Switzerland)
Gianni Moor (Aquila Built Health, Zurich, Switzerland) Colm O’Suilleabhain (Aquila Built Health, Zurich, Switzerland) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Beyond Structural Engineering in a Changing World, San José, Cost Rica, 25-27 Seotember 2024 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress San José 2024 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 595-601 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/sanjose.2024.0595 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper describes a project to assess the condition of the concrete foundations of the electricity pylons of two lines of Switzerland’s extra-high-voltage transmission grid. The solution proposed by the engineering firm involves the use of high-tech non-destructive testing (NDT) equipment and a future-oriented “asset management” approach to the storage, management and sharing of data on a cloud-based platform. This solution demonstrates how such technology can optimize the long- term maintenance of structures and infrastructure – especially in the case of multi-asset networks. |
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| Keywords: |
non-destructive testing concrete structure condition structural investigation
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