Measuring an outer zone of a concrete foundation element
AssigneePiletest.com Ltdy
InventorsJoram Amir, Erez Amir
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Abstract
A method, system and a computer readable medium. The method may include (a) transmitting, by an ultrasonic probe, one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses towards an edge of the outer zone; wherein the transmission occurs while the ultrasonic probe is located in a hole that is proximate to a reinforcement cage of the concrete foundation element, (b) receiving, by the ultrasonic probe, one or more ultrasonic echoes that were reflected from the region of the edge of the outer zone and passed less than twice through the reinforcement cage, and (c) determining a distance between the reinforcement cage and the region of the edge.
Claims23
A method for measuring an outer zone of a concrete foundation element, the method comprises:
- transmitting, by an ultrasonic probe, one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses towards a region of an edge of the outer zone;
- wherein the transmission occurs while the ultrasonic probe is located in a hole that is closer to the region of the edge than to a center of the concrete foundation element;
- receiving, by the ultrasonic probe, one or more ultrasonic echoes that were reflected from the region of the edge of the outer zone;
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- determining a distance between a reinforcement cage of the concrete foundation element and the region of the edge;
- wherein the determining is based on a spatial relationship between the reinforcement cage and the ultrasonic probe, and timing relationships between the one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses and the one or more ultrasonic echoes.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for measuring an outer zone of a concrete foundation element, the non-transitory computer readable medium stored instructions for:
- transmitting, by an ultrasonic probe, one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses towards a region of an edge of the outer zone;
- wherein the transmission occurs while the ultrasonic probe is located in a hole that is closer to the region of the edge than to a center of the concrete foundation element;
- receiving, by the ultrasonic probe, one or more ultrasonic echoes that were reflected from the region of the edge of the outer zone;
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- determining a distance between a reinforcement cage of the concrete foundation element and the region of the edge;
- wherein the determining is based on a spatial relationship between the reinforcement cage and the ultrasonic probe, and timing relationships between the one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses and the one or more ultrasonic echoes.
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A system that comprises a processor and an ultrasonic probe that comprises an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver;
- wherein the ultrasonic probe is configured to transmit one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses towards a region of an edge of the outer zone;
- wherein the transmission occurs while the ultrasonic probe is located in a hole that is closer to the region of the edge than to a center of the concrete foundation element;
- wherein the ultrasonic probe is configured to receive one or more ultrasonic echoes that were reflected from the region of the edge of the outer zone;
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- wherein the processor is configured to participate in determining a distance between a reinforcement cage of the concrete foundation element and the region of the edge;
- wherein the determining is based on a spatial relationship between the reinforcement cage and the ultrasonic probe, and timing relationships between the one or more transmitted ultrasonic pulses and the one or more ultrasonic echoes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.