Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) in Teaching and Learning as Exposure to Forensic to Civil Engineering Student

Abstract

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) method is a method that has a lot of advantages in finding the defects, checking the integrity of the structure or monitoring the structure’s health by maintaining the element in nondestructive mode, can be carried out on site, and can applied to a fully occupied building or historical building that to be protected for heritage wise reason. In order to develop the culture of maintaining the building to achieve sustainability and carrying out forensic engineering when needed, new generation of engineers should be train throughout their engineering program years of study. Thus, it is important for the student to have the exposure of NDT as it will create the interest and awareness of this technique that can be beneficial in the forensic engineering field of work, which is still low in practice and high dependent on the foreign expertise in Malaysia scenario. By looking at the number of advantages, various methods available and numbers of devices to choose from hence various parameters that can be solved with NDT it will give the edge for the future engineers of the country to further explore the forensic engineering discipline using NDT method in the future.