Testing of Materials and Elements in Civil Engineering (5th Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 1018
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nondestructive testing of building materials and elements; ultrasonic tomography in civil engineering; analysis of CT images obtained with ultrasound; computer knowledge representation of building materials and elements using nondestructive testing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few years, we published four editions of the Special Issue “Testing of Materials and Elements in Civil Engineering”, with more than 140 interesting papers published. The field of materials testing in civil engineering is very wide and interesting from engineering and scientific perspectives. Therefore, we have decided to organize a fifth edition dedicated to this topic.
This Special Issue has been proposed and organized as a means to present recent developments in the field of materials testing in civil engineering. The articles 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.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue, which will focus mainly on novel testing approaches, the development of single and hybrid measurement techniques, and advanced signal analysis.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Testing of materials and elements in civil engineering;
- Testing of structures made of novel materials;
- Condition assessment of civil materials and elements;
- Detecting defects that are invisible on the surface;
- Damage detection and damage imaging;
- Diagnostics of cultural heritage monuments;
- Structural health monitoring systems;
- Modeling and numerical analysis;
- Nondestructive testing methods;
- Advanced signal processing for nondestructive testing.
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Schabowicz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- testing
- diagnostics
- building materials
- elements
- civil engineering
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