Structural Condition Assessment of Dam Facilities with Non-Destructive Evaluation Methods

Larry D. Olson, P.E., President and Principal Engineer, Olson Engineering, Inc., and Olson Instruments, Inc.

Larry D. Olson, P.E., is nationally and internationally known for his expertise in nondestructive evaluation and performance monitoring of civil infrastructure including dams, bridges, buildings, foundations, pavements, tunnels, etc.  He is a member of several committees including:  ASCE’s Geophysics Committee, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee AFF40 on Field Testing and Nondestructive Evaluation of Transportation Structures and its Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) subcommittee as well as the Earth Exploration Committee AFP20 and its Geophysical subcommittee.  He has been an instructor in the American Society of Civil Engineers seminar on “Structural Condition Assessment of Existing Structure” since 1997 and in 2009 developed a new ASCE seminar “Bridge Condition Assessment and Performance Monitoring”.  He was the primary instructor in an Engineering Education of Australia seminar series on Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete, Asphalt and Wood in Sydney and Melbourne in 2010.  He is a member of the American Concrete Institute Committees 228 Nondestructive Testing, 309 Consolidation and 342 Bridge Evaluation and a technical affiliate of the Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors.  Mr. Olson is past Chairman of the Evaluation Committee of the International Concrete Repair Institute (2002-2009) and a past ICRI board of directors member.  He has over 31 years of consulting experience in structural condition assessment and monitoring, materials, pavement, geotechnical, geophysical, and vibration engineering.  He holds BS and MS Geotechnical Engineering degrees from the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Austin which honored him as a distinguished alumnus in 2006.  Olson Engineering has its main office in Wheat Ridge CO with branch offices in Manassas VA, Rutherford NJ and Socorro NM.