Geophysics

Ninyo & Moore offers a wide-array of specialty services to provide crucial data for engineering and construction projects. The use of geophysical services can reduce or eliminate the need for costly excavations, core holes, and bore holes, and can provide data coverage for large areas, reducing unknown factors and lowering project risks and costs.

Our state-of-the-art geophysical exploration can tailor a survey, utilizing the methods listed below, and has contributed cost savings to numerous high profile private and public sector projects, including dams, roadways, bridges, airports, mines, military facilities, and other projects.

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Our geophysical services can be used for the following project types.

Crosshole Sonic Logging

  • Deep foundation depths and integrity
  • Voids location (concrete, soil, rock)

Electrical Resistivity Profiling

  • Abandoned mines, caves or tunnels
  • Buried objects - metallic or non-metallic
  • Contaminant plume
  • Electrical grounding and corrosion studies delineation
  • Groundwater depth
  • Landfill boundaries and leachage plumes

Electromagnetic Shallow Mapping

  • Archeological sites/burials
  • Buried debris
  • Buried objects - metallic or non-metallic
  • Contaminant plume delineation
  • Underground storage tank location (UST)
  • Unexploded ordinance (UXO)
  • Utility line location

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

  • Abandoned mines, caves or tunnels
  • Archeological sites/burials
  • Bridge deck conditions and reinforcement
  • Buried objects - metallic or non-metallic
  • Concrete thickness/quality
  • Rebar/post-tension cable condition and designation
  • Shotcrete/gunite thickness/reinforcement/ quality
  • Underground storage tank location (UST)
  • Utility line location
  • Voids location (concrete, soil, rock)

Ground Vibration And Blast Monitoring

  • Blast monitoring
  • Construction monitoring
  • Site response

Impact Echo Concrete Testing

  • Bridge deck conditions and reinforcement
  • Concrete thickness and quality
  • Site response
  • Rebar/post-tension cable condition and designation
  • Shotcrete/gunite thickness/reinforcement/quality

Magnetics (Magnetometer)

  • Buried debris
  • Buried objects - metallic or non-metallic
  • Landfill boundaries and leachage plumes
  • Underground storage tank location (UST)
  • Unexploded ordinance (UXO)

Marine Sub-Bottom Profiling

  • Marine sediment investigations
  • Water column imaging/gas seepage monitoring
  • Dredging surveys

Pile Integrity Testing (Sonic Echo/Impulse Response)

  • Deep/shallow foundation depths and integrity

Seismic Methods

  • Bedrock depth
  • Dynamic moduli
  • Faults, fissures, rock fractures, steeply dipping features
  • Poisson’s ratio values
  • Rippability and relative rock quality
  • Seismic site classification (P-wave and S-wave velocity)
  • Soft soil zones/poorly compacted fill below hard surface soils

Thermal Soil Resistivity

  • Electrical grounding and corrosion studies
  • Thermal resistivity values

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Geophysics

  • Faults, fissures, rock fractures, steeply dipping features
  • Aeromagnetic drone surveys

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