Professor J H BUNGEY MSc, PhD, DIC, CEng, FICE, MIStruct E, FInstNDT

Following 5 years professional experience, research and consultancy experience of NDT of concrete both in the laboratory and on site spans 30 years. Author of 2 textbooks on reinforced concrete design and 2 books on testing concrete as well as over 140 relevant technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. Recent major research contracts include insitu concrete strength assessment, reinforcement corrosion assessment, the use of subsurface radar, and fast-track construction. 

Past chairman of BSI committee on NDT of concrete, the British National Committee for N.D.T. and British Institute of NDT "NDT Forum".  Current chairman of Concrete Society N.D.T. Working Party.  Corresponding member of Concrete Society Materials Group, Durable Post-tensioned concrete and Core Testing Committees, and American Concrete Institute Committee 228 "NDT of Concrete".  Member of Highways Agency NDT Steering Committee and Editorial Board "Construction & Building Materials" and “Cement and Concrete Composites”.

Presenter of numerous invited lectures and short courses on reinforced concrete design and N.D.T. of concrete within the UK and overseas, teaching experience includes structural design and constructional materials as well as concrete performance and assessment. 

Some Recent Research Contracts

'Interpretation of radar signals from river scour hole surveys' EPSRC, 1995-97, (£135,182), Principal Investigator [with Dr S G Millard, Mr C Thomas and Dr M N Soutsos]. 

'Subsurface Radar as a tool for non-destructive testing and assessment in the construction and building industries' E.U.Brite Euram III Framework 4, 1996-98, (ECU 76k), Principal Investigator [with Dr S G Millard, Dr M N Soutsos and Dr B A Austin]. 

'Residual lifetime prediction of reinforced concrete structures with corrosion damage (Phase I)' EPSRC, 1997-99, (£144,652) [with Dr S G Millard and Dr J Cairns (Heriot-Watt)]. 

'Interpretation of sub-surface radar images of reinforced concrete using artificial neural networks' EPSRC, 1997-99, (£144,065) [with Dr T C K Molyneaux, Dr S G Millard and Dr M J Taylor]. 

’Radical redesign of the insitu concrete frame process - Task 6 Early Age Acceptance' Building Research Establishment, 1997-98 (£19,800) Principal Investigator [with Dr M N Soutsos] in collaboration with Queens University, Belfast [Prof.A Long]. 

'A modular approach to the design of switchgear facility foundations and structures' DTI/Qufab Construction - Teaching Company Scheme, 1997-99 (£89,010) Academic Leader [with Mr C Thomas and Dr E A Dickin]. 

‘Investigation of the insitu electrical proportions of concrete in structures at radar frequencies’, EPSRC, 2002-03 (£173,072) [WITH Dr S G Millard, Dr Y Huang, Professor M Fang].

‘Fast-track construction with pozzolanic concrete mixes. Part 1: ground granulated blast furnace slag’, EPSRC, 2002-05 (£254,172) [with Dr M N Soutsos, Dr S G Millard].

Some recent publications

Books

1. Bungey J H and Millard S G Testing of Concrete in Structures (3rd Edn.), Chapman & Hall, 1998.

2. Mosley W H, Hulse R and Bungey J H Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2, MacMillan, 1996. 

3. Mosley W H, Bungey J H and Hulse R Reinforced Concrete Design (5th Edn.), MacMillan 1999. 

Edited Books

1. Bungey J H Testing Concrete in Structures - A guide to available equipment. Tech. Note 143 CIRIA, 1992 

2. Bungey J H Non-destructive testing in Civil Engineering, 2 Vols., British Institute of NDT, 1997 

3. Bungey JH Guidance on Radar Testing of Concrete Structures, Tech. Rep. 48, Concrete Society, 1997 

Papers

1. Bungey J H and Madandoust R 'Evaluation of non-destructive strength testing of Lightweight Concrete.' Proc. I.C.E. Structures and Building Journal 104, 1994, 275-283. (Awarded Telford Premium) 

2. Bungey J H and Millard S G 'Detecting sub-surface features in concrete by impulse radar.' Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation 12, 1995, 33-51 (Invited) 

3. Al-Khadimi T K H, Banfill P F G, Millard S G and Bungey J H 'An accelerated carbonation procedure for studies on concrete.' Advances in Cement Research 8, 30, 1996, 47-59 

4. Al-Khadimi T K H, Banfill P F G, Millard S G and Bungey J H 'Effects of electrochemical realkalisation on some properties of concrete.' In Corrosion of reinforcement in concrete construction (SCI, Cambridge, 1996) 501-11 

5. Bungey J H 'Overview of Brite-Euram Project: Radar in the construction and building industries.' In Proc. NDT-CE-97 ed. J H Bungey (Brit. Inst. of NDT, 1997) 1, 335-339 

6. Bungey J H, Shaw M R, Millard S G, Soutsos M N and Austin B A 'The influence of concrete composition upon radar test results.' Insight, Jnl. of Brit. Inst. of NDT 39, 7, 1997, 474-481 

7. Millard S G, Bungey J H, Thomas C, Soutsos M N, Shaw M R and Patterson A 'Assessing bridge pier scour by radar.'NDT & E International 31, 4, 1998, 51-258 

8. Shaw M R, Molyneaux T C K, Millard S G M, Bungey J H and Taylor M J 'Automatic analysis of GPR scans on concrete structures’. Proc. GPR '98 University of Kansas, USA, 1998, 449-454 

9. Soutsos M N, Bungey J H and Brizell M H 'Compaction of high strength concrete by internal vibration.' In High Performance and Reactive Powder Concretes ed. P C Aitcin and Y Delagrave (University of Sherbrooke, Canada, 1998) 1, 75-97 3 

10. Soutsos, M N, Bungey, J H, Long, A E and Henderson G D ‘Insitu Strength assessment of concrete – The European Concrete Frame Building Project’ Insight, Jnl. Brit. Inst. of NDT, Vol 42, No 7, July 2000, 432-435

11. Law, D W, Millard, S G and Bungey, J H 'Use of Galvanostatic pulse measurements on active reinforcing steel in concrete to assess corrosion rates' British Corrosion Journal, Vol 36, No 1, 2001, 75-80

12. Bungey, J H and Soutsos, M N 'Reliability of partially-destructive tests to assess the strength of concrete on site’ Construction and Building Materials, Vol 15, No 2/3 March/April 2001, 81-92

13. Millard, S G, Shaari, A and Bungey, J H 'Frequency characteristics of GPR antennas' Insight, Jnl. Brit. Inst. of NDT, Vol 43, No 7, July 2001, 450-457 (Invited)

14. Soutsos, M N, Bungey, J H, Millard, S G, Shaw, M R and Patterson, A ‘Dielectric properties of concrete and their influence on radar testing’ NDT & E International, Vol 34, No 6, September 2001, 419-425.

15. Shaari, A, Millard, S G and Bungey, J H ‘Measurement of radar properties of concrete for insitu structural elements’ Insight, Jnl. Brit. Inst. of NDT, Vol 44, No 12, December 2002, 756-758.