Our ground investigation specialists offer both sonic echo and transient dynamic response methods.
The test is performed using a highly sensitive accelerometer, a special purpose PIT Pile Integrity Tester (a lightweight field computer) and a small hand-held hammer. Test data is collected and stored on the Pile Integrity Tester and the data evaluated in the field. This is followed by further office analysis using the PIT-W software.
The Pile Dynamics Inc PIT system performs Low Strain integrity testing. The test is suitable for auger cast-in-place (CFA) piles, bored shafts, driven concrete piles. It detects potentially major defects such as cracks, necking, soil inclusions or voids. Furthermore, in some situations it can determine unknown lengths of piles.
The test consists of attaching the accelerometer to the top of the test pile. The accelerometer acquires data resulting from the impact of a small hand-held hammer. If a defect is present along the shaft, its size and location can be estimated by analysing the propagation and reflection of the wave induced in the pile by the hammer impact.
We also offer other specialist test methods, including integrity testing using Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP), cross-hole sonic logging, parallel seismic testing to determine pile length and pile instrumentation to measure various parameters including strain, temperature, and inclination.