Research on Non-destructive Testing in Civil Engineering Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Diagnostics of engineering structures is a research area being developed nowadays very rapidly in many research centers. The reasons why researchers are investigating this field are: large amount of serious damages or failures of structures that have been already built, age of the technical infrastructure and the current tendency to design modern buildings having a complex geometry, characterised with a very high ratio of utilization level and what is more made of hi-tech materials. Thus, great attention needs to be paid in order to verify the correctness of the buildings and materials response in real environmental and operating conditions. Researchers strive for better understanding of behavior of structures. The measurement techniques and linear computational analyses, well-established and used for many years, are in most cases sufficient tools to diagnose typical buildings. However, more sophisticated or even unique non-destructive methods of materials and structures testing, custom nonlinear numerical models or techniques of analysis at different levels of precision, are sometimes required in the case of the analysis of some extraordinary buildings. From this reasons the aim of this Special Issue is to gather the experience of researchers in the latest advances and trends in the field of non-destructive testing in civil engineering in the field of both materials and structures. Papers including modeling and computational analyses to support non-destructive testing and SHM systems will be especially appreciated.

Prof. Dr. Mikołaj Miśkiewicz
Guest Editor

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