**Preface to "Testing of Materials and Elements in Civil Engineering (2nd Edition) —Volume I"**

Last year, we ran a successful Special Issue on "Testing of Materials and Elements in Civil Engineering", with over 50 papers published. The field of materials testing in civil engineering is very wide and interesting from an engineering and scientific point of view. Therefore, we have decided make a second edition dedicated to this topic.

This new Issue is proposed and organized as a means to present recent developments in the field of materials testing in civil engineering. The articles highlighted in this Issue should relate to different aspects of the testing of different materials in civil engineering, from building materials and elements to building structures. The current trend in the development of materials testing in civil engineering is mainly concerned with the detection of flaws and defects in elements and structures using destructive, semidestructive, and nondestructive testing.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:


**Krzysztof Schabowicz** *Editor*
