Non-Destructive Testing of Materials in Civil Engineering

This issue was proposed and organized as a means to present recent developments in the field of non-destructive testing of materials in civil engineering. For this reason, the articles highlighted in this editorial relate to different aspects of non-destructive testing of different materials in civil engineering, from building materials to building structures. The current trend in the development of non-destructive testing of materials in civil engineering is mainly concerned with the detection of flaws and defects in concrete elements and structures, and acoustic methods predominate in this field. As in medicine, the trend is towards designing test equipment that allows one to obtain a picture of the inside of the tested element and materials. Interesting results with significance for building practices were obtained.

[1]  A. Różański,et al.  Multi-Scale Structural Assessment of Cellulose Fibres Cement Boards Subjected to High Temperature Treatment , 2019, Materials.

[2]  M. Čekon,et al.  A Nondestructive Indirect Approach to Long-Term Wood Moisture Monitoring Based on Electrical Methods , 2019, Materials.

[4]  Grzegorz Świt,et al.  The Use of the Acoustic Emission Method to Identify Crack Growth in 40CrMo Steel , 2019, Materials.

[5]  D. Jóźwiak-Niedźwiedzka,et al.  Application of X-ray microtomography to quality assessment of fibre cement boards , 2016 .

[6]  M. Rucka,et al.  Non-Destructive Assessment of Masonry Pillars using Ultrasonic Tomography , 2018, Materials.

[7]  M. Rucka,et al.  Wave Frequency Effects on Damage Imaging in Adhesive Joints Using Lamb Waves and RMS , 2019, Materials.

[8]  Krzysztof Schabowicz,et al.  Identification of the degree of fibre-cement boards degradation under the influence of high temperature , 2019, Automation in Construction.

[9]  P. Mackiewicz,et al.  Viscoelastic Parameters of Asphalt Mixtures Identified in Static and Dynamic Tests , 2019, Materials.

[10]  D. Kocáb,et al.  Characteristic Curve and Its Use in Determining the Compressive Strength of Concrete by the Rebound Hammer Test , 2019, Materials.

[11]  Krzysztof Schabowicz,et al.  Modern acoustic techniques for testing concrete structures accessible from one side only , 2015 .

[12]  J. Michałek.  Variation in Compressive Strength of Concrete aross Thickness of Placed Layer , 2019, Materials.

[13]  B. Stawiski,et al.  Examining the Distribution of Strength across the Thickness of Reinforced Concrete Elements Subject to Sulphate Corrosion Using the Ultrasonic Method , 2019, Materials.

[14]  Krzysztof Wilde,et al.  Non-Destructive Testing of a Sport Tribune under Synchronized Crowd-Induced Excitation Using Vibration Analysis , 2019, Materials.

[15]  D. Logoń.  Identification of the Destruction Process in Quasi Brittle Concrete with Dispersed Fibers Based on Acoustic Emission and Sound Spectrum , 2019, Materials.

[16]  M. Wyjadłowski,et al.  Assessment of the Condition of Wharf Timber Sheet Wall Material by Means of Selected Non-Destructive Methods , 2019, Materials.

[17]  Krzysztof Wilde,et al.  Ultrasound monitoring for evaluation of damage in reinforced concrete , 2015 .

[18]  M. Sobótka,et al.  Application of Nanoindentation and 2D and 3D Imaging to Characterise Selected Features of the Internal Microstructure of Spun Concrete , 2019, Materials.

[19]  Łukasz Drobiec,et al.  Accuracy of Eddy-Current and Radar Methods Used in Reinforcement Detection , 2019, Materials.

[20]  H. Nowak,et al.  Inverse Contrast in Non-Destructive Materials Research by Using Active Thermography , 2019, Materials.

[21]  P. Ranachowski,et al.  Investigation of Structural Degradation of Fiber Cement Boards Due to Thermal Impact , 2019, Materials.

[22]  Z. Ranachowski,et al.  The contribution of fiber reinforcement system to the overall toughness of cellulose fiber concrete panels , 2017 .

[23]  Q. Zeng,et al.  Pore Structure Damages in Cement-Based Materials by Mercury Intrusion: A Non-Destructive Assessment by X-Ray Computed Tomography , 2019, Materials.

[24]  M. Rucka,et al.  Experimental Study on Ultrasonic Monitoring of Splitting Failure in Reinforced Concrete , 2013 .

[25]  Ł. Drobiec,et al.  Validation of Selected Non-Destructive Methods for Determining the Compressive Strength of Masonry Units Made of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete , 2018, Materials.

[26]  M. Pakula,et al.  Automated control of cellulose fibre cement boards with a non-contact ultrasound scanner , 2015 .

[27]  Maciej Niedostatkiewicz,et al.  Machine Learning Techniques in Concrete Mix Design , 2019, Materials.

[28]  D. Jóźwiak-Niedźwiedzka,et al.  Microstructural characterization of cellulose fibres in reinforced cement boards , 2018, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

[29]  T. Gorzelańczyk,et al.  Effect of Freeze–Thaw Cycling on the Failure of Fibre-Cement Boards, Assessed Using Acoustic Emission Method and Artificial Neural Network , 2019, Materials.

[30]  Krzysztof Schabowicz,et al.  A nondestructive methodology for the testing of fibre cement boards by means of a non-contact ultrasound scanner , 2016 .

[31]  Krzysztof Schabowicz,et al.  State-of-the-art non-destructive methods for diagnostic testing of building structures - anticipated development trends , 2010 .

[34]  Yong Liu,et al.  Enhanced Singular Value Truncation Method for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Structural Damage Using Natural Frequencies , 2019, Materials.