Civil and structural engineering consultants engaged in quality control or investigations of hardened concrete need a comprehensive resource that explains the methods of determining strength and other performance characteristics. Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete, Second Edition answers this demand by providing a thorough analys

This book was proposed and organized as a means to present recent developments in the field of nondestructive testing of materials in civil engineering. For this reason, the articles highlighted in this editorial relate to different aspects of nondestructive testing of different materials in civil engineering—from building materials to building structures. The current trend in the development of nondestructive 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. From this point of view, interesting results with significance for building practices have been obtained

Non-destructive methods for materials testing are being increasingly used in testing concrete structures. In the construction industry, their use has resulted in improvements in the quality of concrete products and structures. It is no longer possible to rely solely on the traditional methods of quality control, and progressive, non-destructive methods must be applied in modern quality-control practice. This new approach in the field of non-destructive testing of concrete structures requires that new parameters be introduced for their verification and evaluation with regard to concrete strength, and for the solution of problems related to the use of combined multiparameter non-destructive methods. The present work provides a comprehensive overview on the solutions available for problems encountered in the non-destructive testing of concrete. Including the use of original combined ultrasonic-pulse methods developed by the author for testing concrete strength. Special attention is given to specific issues of testing in concrete structures and members by means of the combined and one-parameter methods and to the interpretation of the measurement results.