Progress in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation

Dear Colleagues,

Non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) refers to any of a wide group of analysis techniques used in science and technology industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage. The group of NDT&E mainly includes six methods: eddy-current, magnetic-particle, liquid penetrant, radiographic, electromagnetic, ultrasonic, and visual testing. These methods have been widely used in forensic engineering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, systems engineering, aeronautical engineering, medicine, and art. In addition, innovations in the field of NDT&E have had a profound impact on medical imaging, such as echocardiography, medical ultrasonography, and digital radiography.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to shed light on new frontiers in NDT&E, including novel approaches and devices for NDT&E, inverse problem evaluation, and pioneering interdisciplinary research on NDT&E and deep learning. Owing to technical breakthroughs in the field of NDT&E, numerous endeavors are being undertaken in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Innovation applications and methodologies in the field of NDT&E;
• Inversion methods in NDT&E;
• Interdisciplinary of NDT&E and machine learning;
• Simulation methods in in NDT&E;
• Automation of NDT&E;
• Information fusion in multi-NDTs.

Applied Sciences has scheduled a Special Issue, "New Frontiers in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation", to gather the results of a great number of researchers and engineers to address the ongoing challenges of technological advances in NDT&E.

Articles published in Applied Sciences require the author(s) to support the financial costs involved in open access publishing. This journal has a high Impact Factor (2.679). Beyond that, we foresee that this Special Issue will be an excellent opportunity to contribute to the future development of the non-destructive testing and evaluation industry and laboratories.

We look forward to your involvement.

Dr. Zheng Tong
Dr. Weiguang Zhang
Guest Editors

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• nondestructive testing
• penetrating radiation
• X-rays, computed tomography (CT)
• ground-penetrating radar
• ultrasonic testing
• liquid penetrant testing
• visible inspection
• machine learning
• information fusion of multiple NDT&E methods
• aleatory and epistemic uncertainty analysis on NDT&E data