Welcome to Bernie Hertlein's NDT page
This site is about NDT for soils, concrete and other construction materials, as opposed to metals. (There seems to be hundreds of sites for NDT of metals - none for other construction materials) Last site update was September 12, 2007.
Hi - I'm Bernie Hertlein, a civil engineering scientist specializing in
engineering geophysics and Nondestructive Testing (NDT) of structures. I am
based in
I am working full-time (...and then some) which makes it hard to spend much time working on this site, so bear with me..... and check back regularly... it will grow. For the same reason (you're probably busy too!) I am keeping frills to a minimum to ensure speedy loading.
I have posted a few pages of papers and other information about
nondestructive testing (NDT) of civil structures such as buildings, chimneys,
dams, and pavements, etc. for people who are trying to find out more about the
subject. Click here
for more info about NDT, or click here for a site map. These
pages will be growing and changing for a while, so if you have visited before,
be sure and hit RELOAD once a page has loaded, to update your browser's
shortcuts - especially on the site map and publications menu pages - they will
probably change most.
I have included links to related sites for those of you looking for more
information on NDT. The American Concrete Institute has recently published a
very good review of existing NDT methods for concrete. More details are
available in the list of NDT-related
publications on this site. Having said that, I must brag a little about the
book that I and my former mentor (sadly, now deceased) have published. It is
entitled ‘Nondestructive Testing of Deep Foundations’, by Bernard Hertlein and
Allen Davis, and is available from John Wiley & Sons, www.wiley.com or the various bookstore
Internet sites, such as www.borderbooks.com
, www.amazon.com , www.barnesandnoble.com , etc. Search
for ISBN 0-470-84850-2. Our objective with the book was to update the
literature on NDT for deep foundations, while simultaneously de-mystifying the
various techniques, and providing the reader with a good understanding of the
reasons behind them. Our intention was that it be useful to both students and
professionals – a solid introduction to the methods for the initiate, and a
valuable reference for the practicing engineer.
For information on NDT services in the Americas and Pacific Rim, I've
started with the company I work for - STS
Consultants, part of the AECOM group of engineering companies. If you are
in Europe or Africa and looking for help with NDT, try the site run by the
company I used to work for in
If you are looking for information on NDT equipment, and possibly
purchasing, one of the suppliers that I know will supply worldwide is Germann Instruments of
I have had many responses from students researching NDT. Two other very useful sites for research are the National Engineering Education Distribution Site (www.needs.org), a repository of "courseware", and Eng-Tips Forums. The Eng-Tips site offers over 900 independent peer-to-peer non-commercial support forums for Engineering Professionals. Features include automatic e-mail notification of responses, a links library and member confidentiality guaranteed. Best of all, it's FREE. Click on the link banner below.
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Thanks for visiting. If you have any comments please email me at ndtman1@aol.com
For enquiries via my work, email me at hertlein@stsconsultants.com