on some of the "secret decks" on board Carnival Conquest (March 10th, 2014)

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Infrasense, Inc., a national leader in infrastructure nondestructive evaluations, is carrying out subsurface investigations for 44 bridge decks throughout Minnesotas District 6 and Metro regions. The completion of this project will bring the total bridge decks evaluated in Minnesota to 181 (over 3.25 million square feet) since 2009. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) tests were performed on each bridge deck, with accompanying underside visual inspections planned for the spring. These tests provide a condition assessment of the reinforced concrete bridge decks without requiring any cores or exposed rebar, and with minimal disruption to traffic flow.

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) data is collected at highway speeds to estimate rebar depth, corrosion conditions and deteriorated concrete. The GPR data is collected in a series of lines spaced 3 feet transversely across the width of the deck, with each line representing a cross sectional slice of the deck at a particular offset. Decks in good condition consist of strong and uniform radar reflections from the rebar. GPR data with weak and inconsistent reflections indicate rebar-level deterioration in the bridge deck.

Recently a study evaluating the accuracy of Infrasense's results provided to the Minnesota DOT was carried out by an independent consultant for MnDOT. The study compared the predicted quantities for 12 decks surveyed by Infrasense against subsequent construction repair quantities. The study found that, on average, Infrasenses predicted deterioration quantities were within 3.5 % of the documented construction quantities.

Ground penetrating radar surveys provide transportation agencies with accurate and comprehensive bridge deck condition information, enabling effective preservation, rehabilitation, and replacement decisions. With large bridge deck inventories, highway agencies have primarily relied on visual inspection at the network level. Since the mechanisms of deterioration occur below the surface, their manifestations are not readily seen in the visual inspections, often leading to subsequent project-level focus.

Traditionally, highway agencies have employed sounding (chain or hammer) to identify delaminated areas for project-level rehab. Although sounding has proven reliable, the labor and closures required for a sounding survey makes it prohibitive for obtaining data of a large number of decks. Also, sounding is not effective when there is an asphalt overlay. In response to these limitations, a number of highway agencies, including MnDOT, have utilized alternative methods, particularly ground penetrating radar.

About Infrasense, Inc. Since 1987, Infrasense, Inc. has applied state-of-the-art technologies to address the most difficult challenges in subsurface scanning. Infrasenses engineers are able to nondestructively extract critical information from a diverse range of structures. In addition to providing ongoing subsurface evaluation services to clients across the country, the firm has also conducted numerous research programs to advance the field of subsurface detection and non-destructive evaluation.

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The decks seem to be clearing for second phase expansion of Dhamra Port, an equal joint venture between Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Tata Steel after the promoters obtained environment clearance in January.

The state government has asked its ports directorate to assess land need for Phase-II expansion of the deep draught port developed off the coast of north Odisha. The port project is implemented by Dhamra Port Company Ltd (DPCL) where both Tata Steel and L&T hold 50 per cent equity each.

The requirement of land as indicated by the port developers may kindly be examined in line with the guidelines prepared by Rites Ltd and your views in the matter may be offered for taking further action, Arun Chandra Mangaraj, under secretary (commerce & transport) wrote to director of ports & inland water transport, Odisha.

Santosh K Mohapatra, chief executive officer, DPCL said, The Dhamra port has around 300 acres of surplus land. We had sought 745 acres land from the government. About 1,000 acres of land would suffice for the second phase capacity expansion.

Rites, the engineering and consultancy arm of Indian Railways, has benchmarked land need for developers of non-major port projects in Odisha. In its final report submitted to the state commerce & transport department. Rites has suggested a thumb rule allotting 50 acres of land for every million tonne of cargo handling capacity proposed by the developer.

Dhamra port which began commercial operations in May 2011 has been hit hard by curbs on iron ore exports.

After a slump in the iron ore export market, the port was aiming to boost its revenues through handling of diversified cargo like container cargo, liquid cargo, LNG (liquefied natural gas) and crude oil.

DPCL had chalked out Rs 10,000-crore expansion plan that was to ramp up its berth strength to 13 from two presently and upgrade cargo handling capacity four-fold from 25 million tonne per annum (mtpa) to 100 mtpa in five years.

The second phase capacity ramp up would also pave the way for a five mtpa LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal to be set up within the port premises by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL). The terminal to be setup at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore needed 150 acres of land. Both IOCL and DPCL had signed an MoU for the project.

Presently, the port with two berths, is capable of handling 12 million tonne of imported dry bulk cargo and 13 million tonne of dry bulk cargo for exports.

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