Handheld device 'sees' damage in concrete bridges, piers

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Professor Oral Buyukozturk of civil and environmental engineering left and student Tzu-Yang Yu in the lab with a concrete sample and an image (on the laptop screen) produced with the noninvasive damage-assessing technology they developed. Photo Donn ...
Professor Oral Buyukozturk of civil and environmental engineering, left, and student Tzu-Yang Yu in the lab with a concrete sample and an image (on the laptop screen) produced with the noninvasive damage-assessing technology they developed. Photo / Donna Coveney

Engineers at MIT have developed a new technique for detecting damage in concrete bridges and piers that could increase the safety of aging infrastructure by allowing easier, more frequent, onsite inspections that don't interfere with traffic or service.


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