Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing V: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Emerging Technologies in NDT, Ioannina, Greece, 19-21 September 2011

 Content: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Organisation; Plenary lectures; Nondestructive evaluation, structural health monitoring and optical diagnostics at NASA Glenn: A summary; Visualized impact-echo technique for defects in concrete by SIBIE procedure; Structural health monitoring for aircraft, ground transportation vehicles, wind turbines and pipes--prognosis; NDT in diagnostics & protection of cultural heritage; Application of ground penetrating radar for the assessment of the decay state of Hagia Sophia's mosaics; Assessment of cleaning interventions on marble surfaces using pulsed thermography. Contribution of NDT to the sustainable preservation of the Church of Santa Maria in Gradi, Viterbo, ItalyInvestigation strategies for the diagnosis of historic structures; Radar-based vibration measurement on historic masonry towers; Dynamic testing of historic iron bridge at different levels of excitation; NDT characterization of ancient glass objects from the Aegean with an approach of the manufacturing technique; Image analysis for artistic style identification: A powerful tool for preserving cultural heritage. Application of IR thermography to damage characterization of structures and the diagnosis of historic monumentsIron based and other ancient pigments for pottery decoration; A new non-destructive technological approach for fragile archaeological finds; On-site measurement & monitoring by NDT in infrastructures; Damage identification of PC cable breakage by means of acoustic emission; Mesh-independent ray-trace algorithm for concrete structures; Influence of the fiber chemical coating on the fracture behavior of steel fiber concrete measured by acoustic emission. Onsite measurements of concrete structures using Impact-Echo and Impulse ResponseA study on the structural stability of the Asinelli Tower in Bologna; Visual inspection and evaluation using NDT testing methods of industrial building after fire; Concrete compressive strength estimation in-situ at precast beams using direct and indirect testing methods according to EN 13791; AE monitoring of shrinkage process in concrete; Acoustic emission behavior during corrosion process in reinforced concrete in proof of EPMA; Quantitative evaluation of impact force on impact-echo method. Sensors and structural health monitoringThe use of chirped fibre Bragg grating sensors to monitor delaminations in composite materials and structures; Structural Health Monitoring in an operational airliner: Results on the implementation of percolation sensors achieved within the European Project: "Aircraft Integrated Structural Health Assessment II (AISHA II)"; Cure monitoring of cross-ply composite laminates with an encapsulated fibre Bragg grating; Advanced NDT techniques for damage detection in a honeycomb composite helicopter tailboom.
 Abstract:             Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods have dominated most of the fields of applied research and technology over the last twenty years. These techniques provide information on the functional efficiency of materials and structures without causing any structural impact on the structure itself. Their use enables the monitoring of the structural integrity, the structural condition as well as the service in-duced degradation of materials and structures during their service life. In this respect, they address a vast field of applications ranging from the aerospace and automotive industry to civil