Les techniques d'essais non destructifs pour l'évaluation des ouvrages en béton armé

ABSTRACT During three years, experts and practitioners of non destructive evaluation have met under the auspices of AFGC (French Association of Civil Engineering) and COFREND (French Confederation for Non Destructive Testing). Their aim was to prepare a state of the art about non destructive evaluation of reinforced concrete structures. A book has now been issued, amounting about 500 pages, and providing such a State of the Art. It describes the needs and the existing practices. It gives advices for a best use of these non destructive techniques—NDT (when? how? for what?) and helps structural managers, answering their main questions. The book focuses on real case-studies, which show representative illustrations of what are the real problems and how they can be tackled. Thus NDT practitioners as well as structural engineers can also find answers to the their questions. This paper mainly details the sections of the book which are devoted to synthetic files and tables about the techniques.