Non-destructive Inspection

Dear Colleagues,

Traditional non-destructive inspection techniques, such as ultrasonics, electromagnetics, radiography, optical and thermal methods, have contributed to ground-breaking improvements in safety in many industrial areas over the last decade. Even though the demodulation principal is different, these techniques are based on a scheme of defect inspection, denoted as diagnosis. However, estimating the structural health condition at an earlier stage is needed, where damage has not yet been generated, by using in-situ monitoring techniques for the prognosis of structural health during operation. Likewise, the meaning of non-destructive has been gradually expanded from traditional defect inspection to in-situ health monitoring of structures. Due to this reason, there has been a great deal of research on the aforementioned prognosis techniques, as well as on those relating to traditional diagnosis techniques in the non-destructive inspection area over the last decade. Assuming that many things are related to the successful in-situ monitoring of structures, we need to develop more advanced sensors, data acquisition skills, signal processing tools, etc., for a higher level of understandings regarding structures.

We invite you to submit high-quality research, or technical or review papers, to this Special Issue, with an emphasis on innovative new and emerging technologies for a wide range of non-destructive inspection techniques, including in-situ health monitoring.

Some area of interests for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, new skills and application results of non-destructive testing and evaluation, inspection and analysis, in-situ health monitoring, and convergence with other technologies, such as the Internet of things. In addition, related theory, modelling, and simulations can be included.

The objective of this Special Issue is to gather the experience of leading scientists, researchers, and field engineers. In addition, it can be helpful for people who would like to adopt a new non-destructive inspection system for better safety, as well as production efficiency in industrial fields. From this point of view, we believe that this Special Issue will provide technological advances, and the latest research on the state-of-the-art, as well as innovative field application results in non-destructive inspection, including in-situ health monitoring. Interested and committed individuals from academia, research laboratories, industries, and related companies are invited to contribute by submitting papers to this Special Issue.

If you need any further information about this Special Issue, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Dr. Donghoon Kang
Guest Editor

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