Non-destructive Testing in Civil Engineering

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: History of engineering and technology; 950 keV/3.95 MeV X-ray sources; active thermography; applied geophysics; artificial neural networks; brick walls; building defects; building diagnosis; building envelope; building floors; building inspection system; building thermal performance; buildings; calibration equation; civil engineering; classification; climatic factors; concrete; concrete slab; contact duration; conveyor belt; crack measurement; crack width; delamination; electrical impedance; electrical resistivity; Eleftheria Square; EMI; ERT; façade; fiber orientation; GPR; ground sample distance (GSD); ground-penetrating radar; heat flux meter (HFM); HFM method; high resolution; historic buildings; housing; image processing; impact-echo; impulse excitation technique; infrared thermography; infrastructure; instrumental signal; linear effusivity fit; load; lock-in thermography; machine learning; material moisture; measurement accuracy; mechanical properties; Mediterranean climate; micro-computed tomography; moisture measurements; monitoring; mortar; n/a; NDT; Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB); non-destructive test; non-destructive testing; nondestructive testing; onsite X-ray bridge inspection; passive house (PH); passive thermography; PC bridge; probability-based ERT inversion (PERTI) method; quantitative evaluation of stage of unfilled grout; quantitative infrared thermography (QIRT); rapid scanning; resonant frequency; signal features; small force; soil inspection; solar loading thermography; sonic resonant method; spectral induced polarization; steel fiber reinforced concrete; step-heating thermography; strain gauge; structure state assessment; thermal effusivity; thermal shocks; thermal thickness; thermal transmittance; tooth gear impactor; two-point bending test; U-value; ultrasonic elastography; ultrasound; underground detection; underwater acoustics; unfilled grout; urban geophysics; urgency of repair; visual inspection; working distance
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 This Special Issue, entitled "Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering", aims to present to interested researchers and engineers the latest achievements in the field of new research methods, as well as the original results of scientific research carried out with their use-not only in laboratory conditions but also in selected case studies. The articles published in this Special Issue are theoretical-experimental and experimental, and also show the practical nature of the research. They are grouped by topic, and the main content of each article is briefly discussed for your convenience. These articles extend the knowledge in the field of non-destructive testing in civil engineering with regard to new and improved non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, their complementary application, and also the analysis of their results-including the use of sophisticated mathematical algorithms and artificial intelligence, as well as the diagnostics of materials, components, structures, entire buildings, and interesting case studies.