This paper reviews recent advances in sensor technologies for non-destructive testing
(NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil structures. The article is motivated by …

Composite materials/structures are advancing in product efficiency, cost-effectiveness and
the development of superior specific properties. There are increasing demands in their …

Composite materials are increasingly used in the aerospace industry. To fully realise the
weight saving potential along with superior mechanical properties that composites offer in …

An introductory and intermediate level handbook written in pragmatic style to explain
residual stresses and to provide straightforward guidance about practical measurement …

Polymer composite materials are being increasingly used in primary load-bearing structures
in several advanced industrial fields such as aerospace vessels, railway wagons and mega …

The growing demand and diversity in the application of industrial composites and the current
inability of present non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods to perform detailed inspection …

Optical non-destructive testing (NDT) has gained more and more attention in recent years,
mainly because of its non-destructive imaging characteristics with high precision and …

We demonstrated the multimodal optical excitation pulsed thermography, and this technique
can enhance the defect detectability and the depth-resolution dynamic range for the …

As high-precision measuring instruments have developed, interferometers have been widely
applied in the measurement of lengths and of the shape of surfaces, with nanometer …

Thick composite materials are commonly used as load-bearing structures in marine
applications. Developing a suitable and sophisticated non-destructive testing (NDT) method …