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Giulia Grottesi, Guilherme B. A. Coelho and Dimitrios Kraniotis
In the world of cultural heritage, a wide range of artefacts and buildings are made of wood and, therefore, are subjected to moisture-induced stress and strain cycles, owing to environmental fluctuations. Simultaneous action of moisture and mechanical lo...
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Eslam Mohammed Abdelkader, Tarek Zayed and Nour Faris
Defects are essential indicators to gauge the structural integrity and safety of reinforced concrete bridges. Non-destructive inspection has been pervasively explored over the last three decades to localize and characterize surface and subsurface anomali...
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Boutros El Hajj, Bruno Castanier, Franck Schoefs and Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga
The objective of this paper is to propose tools for the lifecycle management of infrastructure by showing the slow degradation processes for which inspection data are accessible, especially the data obtained from non-destructive testing (NDT) and structu...
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Costas P. Providakis, Maria G. Mousteraki and Georgia C. Providaki
Without affecting the integrity or stability of the heritage monuments, vibration-based techniques provide useful solutions for acquiring global information about them. By studying the dynamic response to suitable excitation sources, it is feasible to de...
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Huda Aslam, Md Maruf Mortula, Sherif Yehia, Tarig Ali and Manreet Kaur
Leakages from water distribution infrastructures are responsible for a considerable amount of water losses. Consequently, innovative, non-destructive techniques (NDT) of leakage detection for early recognition is vital. In this study, the leak detection ...
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Giulia Boccacci, Francesca Frasca, Chiara Bertolin and Anna Maria Siani
Among non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques applied to structural health monitoring in existing timber structures, ranging from visual inspection to more sophisticated analysis, acoustic emission (AE) is currently seldomly used to detect mechanical st...
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Yoonjae Chung, Seungju Lee and Wontae Kim
Non-destructive testing (NDT) is a broad group of testing and analysis techniques used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material, structure, or system for characteristic defects and discontinuities without causing damage. Recently,...
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Nicholas Hashem, Mitchell Pryor, Derek Haas and James Hunter
This paper presents a literature review on techniques related to the computed tomography procedure that incorporate automation elements in their research investigations or industrial applications. Computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive testing (ND...
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Qiang Fang, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo and Xavier Maldague
In quality evaluation (QE) of the industrial production field, infrared thermography (IRT) is one of the most crucial techniques used for evaluating composite materials due to the properties of low cost, fast inspection of large surfaces, and safety. The...
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Amani-Christiana Saint, Vasiliki Dritsa and Maria Koui
A multi-analytical non-destructive testing (NDT) methodology was applied to copper-based artifacts originated from various archaeological sites of Greece. X-ray fluorescence (XRF), fiber optics diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) and scanning electro...
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