Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The book deals with novel aspects and perspectives in metal oxide and hybrid material fabrication.

environment pollution --- Ti6Al4V titanium alloy --- polypropylene --- antibacterial --- physicochemical and morphological properties --- nanocomposites --- silica–lignin hybrid materials --- hazardous metals --- hierarchical --- oxyanions --- surface free energy --- CO2 capture --- dyes decolorization --- organic dyes decomposition --- mesoporous organosilica --- metal oxides --- surface layer --- mechanical properties --- ozone treatment --- adsorbents --- self-propagating --- molybdenum disulfide --- hybrid materials --- zirconia --- binary systems --- thermoplastic elastomers --- biodegradation --- sorption --- alumina --- binary oxide material --- porous hybrid adsorbents --- Ag-ZnO --- enzyme immobilization --- actinide --- photocatalysis --- aqueous durability --- zinc oxide --- inorganic oxide materials --- surface functionalization --- laccase --- nuclear waste --- water purification --- titanium dioxide --- polylactide --- zirconolite --- adhesive joint --- sol-gel method

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Various types of metallic and composite structures are used in modern engineering practice. For aerospace, car industry, and civil engineering applications, the most important are thin-walled structures made of di erent types of metallic alloys, brous composites, laminates, and multifunctional materials with a more complicated geometry of reinforcement including nanoparticles or nano bres. The current applications in modern engineering require analysis of structures of various properties, shapes, and sizes (e.g., aircraft wings) including structural hybrid joints, subjected to di erent types of loadings, including quasi-static, dynamic, cyclic, thermal, impact, penetration, etc.The advanced metallic and composite structures should satisfy multiple structural functions during operating conditions. Structural functions include mechanical properties such as strength, sti ness, damage resistance, fracture toughness, and damping. Non-structural functions include electrical and thermal conductivities, sensing, actuation, energy harvesting, self-healing capability, electromagnetic shielding, etc.The aim of this SI is to understand the basic principles of damage growth and fracture processes in advanced metallic and composite structures that also include structural joints. Presently, it is widely recognized that important macroscopic properties, such as macroscopic sti ness and strength, are governed by processes that occur at one to several scales below the level of observation. A thorough understanding of how these processes influence the reduction of sti ffness and strength forms the key to the design of improved innovative structural elements and the analysis of existing ones.

steel–concrete composite bridge --- I-shaped beam --- concrete creep --- temperature --- prediction --- experiment --- through-beam joint --- concrete filled steel tube (CFST) columns --- reinforced concrete (RC) --- axial compressive behaviour --- steel mesh --- local compression --- confined concrete --- height factor --- curved steel–concrete composite box beam --- two-node finite beam element with 26 DOFs --- long-term behavior --- age-adjusted effective modulus method --- C-section --- TH-section --- distortional mode --- medium length --- interactive buckling --- compression --- Koiter’s theory --- FEM --- dynamic pulse buckling --- composite stanchion --- FE analysis --- nonlinear analysis --- crashworthiness --- modulus of elasticity --- pine wood --- wood defects --- knots --- laboratory tests --- beams --- glued laminated timber --- ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) --- minicomposite --- tensile --- damage --- fracture --- timber --- natural composite --- Kolsky method --- deformation diagrams --- wood species --- energy absorption --- wood model --- verification --- nonlinear stability --- square plate --- shear forces --- components of transverse forces in bending --- membrane components of transverse forces --- 4 methods (CPT, FSDT, S-FSDT, FEM) --- connection --- test --- bolt --- steel plate --- moisture content --- failure --- AlCrN --- arc current --- structure --- hardness --- adhesion --- wear --- turbine jet engine --- material tests --- ember-resistant alloys --- wood --- cohesive law --- digital image correlation --- fracture mechanics --- mixed mode I+II loading --- dual adhesive --- single lap joints --- numerical modeling --- artificial neural networks --- sandwich panels with corrugated channel core --- 3D-printed sandwich --- bending response --- mechanism maps --- geometrical optimization --- dislocation–boundary interaction --- dislocation–interface interaction --- deformation twin-boundary interaction --- size effect --- boundary structure --- boundary strengthening --- characterization techniques --- adhesive joint --- adhesive bond strength --- adhesive layer thickness

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Various types of metallic and composite structures are used in modern engineering practice. For aerospace, car industry, and civil engineering applications, the most important are thin-walled structures made of di erent types of metallic alloys, brous composites, laminates, and multifunctional materials with a more complicated geometry of reinforcement including nanoparticles or nano bres. The current applications in modern engineering require analysis of structures of various properties, shapes, and sizes (e.g., aircraft wings) including structural hybrid joints, subjected to di erent types of loadings, including quasi-static, dynamic, cyclic, thermal, impact, penetration, etc.The advanced metallic and composite structures should satisfy multiple structural functions during operating conditions. Structural functions include mechanical properties such as strength, sti ness, damage resistance, fracture toughness, and damping. Non-structural functions include electrical and thermal conductivities, sensing, actuation, energy harvesting, self-healing capability, electromagnetic shielding, etc.The aim of this SI is to understand the basic principles of damage growth and fracture processes in advanced metallic and composite structures that also include structural joints. Presently, it is widely recognized that important macroscopic properties, such as macroscopic sti ness and strength, are governed by processes that occur at one to several scales below the level of observation. A thorough understanding of how these processes influence the reduction of sti ffness and strength forms the key to the design of improved innovative structural elements and the analysis of existing ones.

Technology: general issues --- steel–concrete composite bridge --- I-shaped beam --- concrete creep --- temperature --- prediction --- experiment --- through-beam joint --- concrete filled steel tube (CFST) columns --- reinforced concrete (RC) --- axial compressive behaviour --- steel mesh --- local compression --- confined concrete --- height factor --- curved steel–concrete composite box beam --- two-node finite beam element with 26 DOFs --- long-term behavior --- age-adjusted effective modulus method --- C-section --- TH-section --- distortional mode --- medium length --- interactive buckling --- compression --- Koiter’s theory --- FEM --- dynamic pulse buckling --- composite stanchion --- FE analysis --- nonlinear analysis --- crashworthiness --- modulus of elasticity --- pine wood --- wood defects --- knots --- laboratory tests --- beams --- glued laminated timber --- ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) --- minicomposite --- tensile --- damage --- fracture --- timber --- natural composite --- Kolsky method --- deformation diagrams --- wood species --- energy absorption --- wood model --- verification --- nonlinear stability --- square plate --- shear forces --- components of transverse forces in bending --- membrane components of transverse forces --- 4 methods (CPT, FSDT, S-FSDT, FEM) --- connection --- test --- bolt --- steel plate --- moisture content --- failure --- AlCrN --- arc current --- structure --- hardness --- adhesion --- wear --- turbine jet engine --- material tests --- ember-resistant alloys --- wood --- cohesive law --- digital image correlation --- fracture mechanics --- mixed mode I+II loading --- dual adhesive --- single lap joints --- numerical modeling --- artificial neural networks --- sandwich panels with corrugated channel core --- 3D-printed sandwich --- bending response --- mechanism maps --- geometrical optimization --- dislocation–boundary interaction --- dislocation–interface interaction --- deformation twin-boundary interaction --- size effect --- boundary structure --- boundary strengthening --- characterization techniques --- adhesive joint --- adhesive bond strength --- adhesive layer thickness --- steel–concrete composite bridge --- I-shaped beam --- concrete creep --- temperature --- prediction --- experiment --- through-beam joint --- concrete filled steel tube (CFST) columns --- reinforced concrete (RC) --- axial compressive behaviour --- steel mesh --- local compression --- confined concrete --- height factor --- curved steel–concrete composite box beam --- two-node finite beam element with 26 DOFs --- long-term behavior --- age-adjusted effective modulus method --- C-section --- TH-section --- distortional mode --- medium length --- interactive buckling --- compression --- Koiter’s theory --- FEM --- dynamic pulse buckling --- composite stanchion --- FE analysis --- nonlinear analysis --- crashworthiness --- modulus of elasticity --- pine wood --- wood defects --- knots --- laboratory tests --- beams --- glued laminated timber --- ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) --- minicomposite --- tensile --- damage --- fracture --- timber --- natural composite --- Kolsky method --- deformation diagrams --- wood species --- energy absorption --- wood model --- verification --- nonlinear stability --- square plate --- shear forces --- components of transverse forces in bending --- membrane components of transverse forces --- 4 methods (CPT, FSDT, S-FSDT, FEM) --- connection --- test --- bolt --- steel plate --- moisture content --- failure --- AlCrN --- arc current --- structure --- hardness --- adhesion --- wear --- turbine jet engine --- material tests --- ember-resistant alloys --- wood --- cohesive law --- digital image correlation --- fracture mechanics --- mixed mode I+II loading --- dual adhesive --- single lap joints --- numerical modeling --- artificial neural networks --- sandwich panels with corrugated channel core --- 3D-printed sandwich --- bending response --- mechanism maps --- geometrical optimization --- dislocation–boundary interaction --- dislocation–interface interaction --- deformation twin-boundary interaction --- size effect --- boundary structure --- boundary strengthening --- characterization techniques --- adhesive joint --- adhesive bond strength --- adhesive layer thickness

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The Special Issue “Non-Destructive Testing of Structures” has been proposed to present the recent developments in the field of the diagnostics of structural materials and components in civil and mechanical engineering. The papers highlighted in this editorial concern various aspects of non-invasive diagnostics, including such topics as the condition assessments of civil and mechanical structures and the connections of structural elements, the inspection of cultural heritage monuments, the testing of structural materials, structural health monitoring systems, the integration of non-destructive testing methods, advanced signal processing for the non-destructive testing of structures (NDT), damage detection and damage imaging, as well as modeling and numerical analyses for supporting structural health monitoring (SHM) systems.

capillary-based structural health monitoring --- fatigue crack growth --- fatigue crack initiation --- XFEM --- straight lug --- cast-in-place concrete --- temperature --- boundary conditions --- on-line monitoring --- numerical simulations --- strength --- extradosed bridge --- SHM system --- delamination --- width-to-depth ratio (WTDR) --- concrete bridge deck --- handheld IR camera (H-IRC) --- UAV IR camera (UAV-IRC) --- passive IRT --- non-destructive technique --- concrete structure --- non-destructive evaluation --- crack effect --- metal magnetic memory --- magnetic intensity gradient --- stress --- non-destructive testing --- ultrasonic tomography --- graph theory --- concrete --- damage mechanics --- elastic degradation --- damage parameter --- internal length --- experimental research --- methodology --- floors --- cement-based materials --- casting --- forming --- non-destructive and semi-destructive tests --- laser scanning --- photogrammetry --- tachymetry --- bridge deflection --- non-contact measurement --- wave propagation --- damage detection --- numerical modelling --- hardness --- Barkhausen noise --- number of events --- non-destructive testing inverse problem --- adhesive joint --- concrete beam --- guided waves --- debonding --- damage imaging --- root mean square --- cracking pattern --- cracks --- cement composites --- image analysis --- historical floor --- integrated diagnostics --- ground penetrating radar --- ultrasonic testing --- in situ surveys --- finite-difference time-domain modeling --- masonry structures --- autoclaved aerated concrete masonry units (AAC) --- compressive strength --- minor-destructive (MDT) techniques --- non-destructive techniques (NDT) --- acoustoelastic effect (AE) --- quasi-brittle cement composites --- acoustic emission --- acoustic spectrum --- micro events --- acoustic nondestructive methods --- large format tiles --- real-life application --- mechanical load --- failure --- vibration signal analysis --- nondestructive testing --- Kalman filtering --- parameter identification --- magnetic Barkhausen noise --- magnetic anisotropy --- grain oriented steel --- time-frequency representation --- signal processing --- data mining methods --- digital image correlation --- region-based convolutional neural network --- machine learning --- crack monitoring --- crack detection and localization --- elastic waves --- neural networks --- force prediction --- flange connection --- static test --- soil-steel bridge --- terrestrial laser scanning --- finite element method (FEM) --- modelling and simulations --- material parameters identification --- vibration measurements --- testing --- operational modal analysis --- lighthouse --- historic tower --- steel structures --- stressed-skin effect --- diaphragm design --- trapezoidal sheeting --- condition assessment of steel structure --- structural health monitoring --- civil engineering structures --- mechanical structures --- damage detection and visualization --- modeling and simulations