Lukasz Sadowski – författare

Concrete floors should be diagnosed in order to obtain the proper durability. Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods, which have numerous advantages and are very effective for in situ testing, are recommended for this purpose. Non-Destructive Diagnostics of Concrete Floors: Methods and Case Studies offers useful NDT methods, test methodologies, and case studies. This book contains classifications of NDT methods, examines their areas of usefulness in floor diagnostics, and explains the complementarity and reliability of NDT methods as well as the need to calibrate research equipment. It presents interesting case studies of concrete floors, such as dowelled floors, floors with a top layer made of stone slabs, industrial floors, industrial floors with a top layer of polyurethane-cement, layered floors, post-tensioned floors, and cement screeds. The authors have drawn on many years of experience in both academia and the practical diagnosis of concrete floors using NDT methods.

This book discusses how to identify the level of adhesion in layered systems made of cement composites using a multi-scale approach based on experimental and numerical analyses. In particular, it explains

1.    The suitability of previously used artificial intelligence tools and learning algorithms for reliable assessment of the level of adhesion of layered systems made of cement composites based on non-destructive tests

2.    The development of the methodology for a reliable non-destructive evaluation of the level of adhesion in newly constructed layered systems of any overlay thickness and in existing layered systems made of cement composites

3.    How to determine whether to assess the level of adhesion of the layered systems, and discusses the amplitude parameters, spatial, hybrid and volume parameters describing the morphology of the concrete substrate surface in the mesoscale

4.    How to ascertain whether the effective surface area of the existing concrete substrate and the contribution of the exposed aggregate on this substrate, determined in mesoscale, have an impact on the level of adhesion of layered systems made of cement composites

5.    The assessment of the structure of air pores in the microscale and the chemical composition of the cement composite on the nanoscale in the interphase zone together with the determination of their impact on the level of adhesion of layered systems made of cement composites

6.    The development of an effective methodology for testing the level of adhesion of layered systems made of cement composites in a multi-scale approach, including the research methods and descriptors used.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering (CUTE 2024), held from October 14–17 at Wrocław in Poland. It highlights recent innovations, trends, challenges and solutions adopted in the field of Civil, Architecture, Urban and Transportation Engineering in terms of sustainable development. The main topics covered but not limited to are:

friendly development of civil and urban engineering,

sustainable development of transportation engineering,

BIM tools for sustainable buildings and infrastructure,

sustainable trends in architecture and urban planning,

sustainability in retrofitted buildings—methods, opportunities, and problems,

challenges in renovation of old and historic buildings,

modern testing methods for sustainable modernization of existing building structures,

sustainable construction sites: workers’ safety and health,

green cities, green neighborhoods, green universities,

eco-friendly, green and alternative structural materials,

introduction of sustainable development goals in civil engineer education programs,

trenchless installation and rehabilitation of underground pipelines, CIPP technologies,

large-scale tunneling in soil and rock conditions,

composite structures and innovative composite materials,

mechanics of structures and materials,

computer methods and artificial intelligence for modeling, testing and multi-scale analysis of building materials,

recycling and use of waste materials,

environmental geotechnology,

sustainable ground improvement and foundation engineering.