Non-destructive Testing for Building Evaluation
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 59022
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cementitious materials; sustainable development; artificial intelligence; nondestructive testing; surface morphology
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently the non-destructive testing (NDT) is more frequently used for the evaluation and condition assessment of buildings. This evaluation is wide: from the simplest visual inspection, through optical & laser, acoustic, radiological and electromagnetic methods together with thermography and advanced tomography. At the construction stage also materials together with parts of the buildings are tested on site or in the laboratory. At the maintenance stage more often whole buildings are monitored. The special effort is placed on the complementary application of various NDT techniques into a one structural health monitoring system (SHM). More advanced techniques and algorithms are used to correlate the obtained signals and parameters. The main objective of this special issue is to share, present and discuss recent applications of NDT for the evaluation and condition assessment of buildings with the special focus on real-world applications. Original research articles, case studies as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts in applications of NDT & Evaluation for buildings are welcomed.
Dr. Łukasz Sadowski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-destructive testing
- evaluation
- buildings
- construction
- maintenance
- monitoring
- concrete
- masonry
- condition assessment
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