Pundit PI8000
- Available to rent
- Available to buy
A single wireless probe for pile integrity testing and impact-echo thickness and defect checks on concrete.
The PI8000 is an impact-echo and pile-integrity instrument. It is not a phased-array ultrasonic system. Screening Eagle describes it as one probe and app for concrete pile testing, concrete slab testing, thickness measurement, and defect detection.
For piles, it uses low-strain pile integrity testing to check quality, estimate length, and flag major defects early. For walls and slabs, impact echo checks thickness and looks for internal defects such as voids or delamination. Screening Eagle’s published range is a maximum impact-echo thickness of about 60 to 80 cm, depending on concrete quality and the impactor, and a pile length-to-diameter ratio of about 30 to 60, depending on the soil.
The probe is wireless. The app compares piles on one site, tags defects or objects, keeps a logbook, and can apply filter settings across piles of the same type. Smart Scanning rents and sells the PI8000 for bridge, building, and foundation work.
- One probe for pile integrity and impact echo
- Wireless collection with an iPad app
- On-site pile comparison, heat maps, and a traceable logbook
Specifications
Figures below are taken from Smart Scanning's product pages or from Screening Eagle's public product sheets. Where a number is not published, it is left off.
Display
- Any compatible Apple iPad (iOS 11.0 and higher)
Workflow
- Single-site comparison of piles
- Single-shot or flexible heat map for impact echo
- Defect and object tagging
- Logbook for traceability and simpler reporting
- Filter settings applied to all piles at once
- Impact monitoring, with the option to exclude impacts
- Spot and grid measuring methods for impact echo
Technical specifications
- Technology: pile integrity (low strain) and impact echo
- Range: greater than 35 kHz, ±50 g
- Resonant frequency: greater than 50 kHz
- Sampling rate: 400 kSPS
- Weight: 144 g, including battery
- Battery: standard AA, alkaline or rechargeable
- Dimensions: 85 × 56 × 59 mm
- Connections: Bluetooth Low Energy, USB-C for charging and updates
- Impact-echo measuring range: maximum thickness about 60 to 80 cm, depending on concrete quality and the impactor selected
- Pile-integrity measuring range: length-to-diameter ratio about 30 to 60, depending on soil conditions
- Standards cited by Screening Eagle: ASTM C1383 and ASTM D5882
Applications
- Pile integrity and pile length assessment
- Concrete wall and slab thickness
- Voids and delamination in plate-like elements
- Asset inspection of buildings, bridges, and piles
Related equipment
- Pundit PD8050 — Ultrasonic pulse-echo array for structural imaging, object detection, and defect detection in concrete.