Last year, we ran a successful Special Issue on “Nondestructive Testing of Materials in Civil Engineering”, with 26 papers published. The field of testing of materials in civil engineering is very wide and interesting from an engineering and scientific point of view. This new issue is proposed and organized as a means to present recent developments in the field of testing of materials in civil engineering. For this reason, the articles highlighted in this issue should relate to different aspects of 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 mainly focused on novel different testing approaches, development of single and hybrid measurement techniques, and advanced signal analysis. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Testing of materials and elements in civil engineering; Testing of structures made of novel materials; Condition assessment of civil materials and elements; Detecting defects invisible on the surface; Damage detection and damage imaging; Diagnostics of cultural heritage monuments; Structural health monitoring systems; Modeling and numerical analyses; Nondestructive testing methods; Advanced signal processing for nondestructive testing.
Keywords: testing; diagnostic; building materials; elements; civil engineering.