New Testing and Monitoring Solutions Take Infrastructure Asset Management to the Next Level

Dennis Abel, PE, chief engineer, and Rakesh Khan, PE, director of technology solutions, discuss an exciting evolution in FDH’s innovative nondestructive testing (NDT) methods. FDH has developed a new portable data acquisition device for clients to use in the field with their own crews to perform NDT on demand. While NDT is critical for assessing current structural condition, it becomes even more valuable when paired with structural health monitoring, or SHM, which involves the installation of sensors to continuously monitor variables that contribute to degradation or failure of individual components and/or the entire structure over time.