Session report: Special uses of in-situ tests

摘要

Most of the in-situ test devices and techniques used nowadays started from a special use in the past that evolved towards a common use at industrial level. A world in change, like the one we are living in, demands for higher efficiency in industrial applications, namely in speed and cost-effectiveness without losing quality, which depend a great deal in the development of new uses and new devices. In this general report, related with the Special Uses of In-situ Tests, theme of Session 8 of the 4th Conference On Site Characterization, ISC'4, a brief analysis on the subjected is presented, with special emphasis on the strategies and demands for creating the adequate conditions to a continuous flow of new applications and/or new ideas that can lead to a sustainable evolution on site characterization. Special attention will be paid to combination of test and/or test parameters as a way to enlarge the possibilities of assessment and to the use of advanced mathematics in an industrial scale. Finally, the report also integrates the overview of the 13 papers presented to this Theme Session.