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Non-Destructive Assessment of the Historic World War Memorial Baseball Stadium, Greensboro, North Carolina

Salah Amer¹, Wonchang Choi², Miguel Picornell³, Sameer Hamoush³

1 Graduate Student. North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27511.
2 Assistant Professor. North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27511.
3 Professor. North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27511.

Structural Longevity 2013, 10(2), 107-118. https://doi.org/10.3970/sl.2013.010.107

Abstract

The World War Memorial Stadium located at 510 Yanceyville St. Greensboro, North Carolina was built in 1926 at the. Currently, the stadium is used as a baseball field for NC A&T State University and University of NC at Greensboro. The stadium was designed by the architect, White, Leonard, Jr. and Barton Harry with architectural style modern classicism. The stadium is maintained by The Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Greensboro who invited the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering at NC A&T State University to assess and evaluate the structural conditions of the stadium. The outcome of the assessment is to provide the city with tools for decision making in terms of repair, replacement or demolishing. The existing conditions by the visual inspection indicate severe environmental deterioration of many areas including seating slabs the towers of the front façade, beams and columns.
The initial evaluation included the following:
1- Review previous evaluation reports prepared by Sutton-Kennerly & Associates, Inc. in 2003 and 2008. The 2003 report was mainly based on the visual test for concrete deterioration and cracks while the 2008 report showed more comprehensive assessment in which core tests were retrieved from various concrete structural members.
2- Perform a site visit to develop assessment scheme and planning for the work schedule.
3 -Perform a visual test for the areas under investigation and reporting the dimensions and all types of deteriorations and cracks in details and its exact locations.
The assessment of the structure was focused on mapping the areas with a concrete reinforcement scanning device using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in X and Y directions on a grid spacing of one yard. The concrete strength test was used to evaluate the in-suite modulus of elasticity using Seismic Property Analyzer (SPA) device on the same grid of one yard spacing. Core tests at deferent locations were retrieved to correlate the test data obtained by the above two methods. All the investigation steps with results, graphs and pictures will be presented in this paper. Recommendations were made to retrofit the stadium. Partial replacement of some members was recommended to maintain the structural integrity of the stadium.

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