TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R06B has released a prepublication, non-edited draft version of a report titled Evaluating Applications of Field Spectroscopy Devices to Fingerprint Commonly Used Construction Materials that documents the results of an evaluation of practical portable spectroscopic equipment for in-situ analysis of a wide range of commonly used construction materials.
The report also includes proposed American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) standards of practice for the analysis of titanium content in traffic paints by X-ray fluorescence and identification of chemical admixtures by attenuated total reflectance.
The results of Renewal Project R06B will be incorporated into an electronic repository for practitioners, known as the NDToolbox, which will provide information regarding recommended technologies for the detection of a particular deterioration. The NDToolbox is in the process of being created by SHRP 2 Renewal Project R06A that has released a prepublication, non-edited draft version of a report titled Nondestructive Testing to Identify Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration that identifies nondestructive testing technologies for detecting and characterizing common forms of deterioration in concrete bridge decks.
Renewal Project R06B is one of seven follow-on projects to SHRP Renewal Project R06 that produced SHRP 2 Report S2-R06-RW: A Plan for Developing High-Speed, Nondestructive Testing Procedures for Both Design Evaluation and Construction Inspection, which examines existing and emerging nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies and their current state of implementation to satisfy the NDE needs for highway renewal.