NDT 2008 Programme: 18 September
Provisional programme – subject to change


Thursday 18 September
09.00 Registration
09.10 Chairman - Karl Quirk



What UKAS can do for our industry
Chairman - Steve Lavender


Routes to Registration with the Engineering Council
Caroline Bull and
Steve Lavender of
BINDT's MQE
Session 5C-General Interest
Chairman - I Baillie

Review Paper
Evolution in Magnetic particle inspection and liquid penetrant inspection
D Lovejoy, Minton, The South West School of NDT
09.35 Grown cracks for NDT development and qualification
Iikka Virkkunen, Trueflaw
  Session 5A – Radiography
Chairmen – E A Birt & G A Georgiou

Session 5B – Data Processing and Imaging
Chairman – R Challis

Session 5C – Innovative NDT 2
Chairman – I Baillie

10.00
Computer modelling of the computed radiographic inspection of wall loss flaws in pipes for image simulation and POD prediction
S F Burch and B A Stow
ESR Technology

ToF-FS: a technique for detection and monitoring of wall loss defects in large areas of vessels and pipework
S Terpstra and F Hoeve, Shell Global Solutions International BV
Z McCann and M Stone, Sonomatic Ltd

MFL array sensor technique for detection of joining flaws in laser welds for automotive industry
C Carpentier, A Raude and J R Rudlin
TWI

 
10.25 Digital radiography – the 21st century X-ray technology
R Pincu
Vidisco Ltd, Israel

Content-based Image Retrieval Technique for Defect Classification of X-ray Welding Images
Ying Yin, Gui Yun Tian, 
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 
Improvements in ultrasonic inspection of resistance spot welds
J Buckley, Sonatest Ltd
R Servent, Atlantis NDE, Spain

 
10.50
Reverse geometry X-ray imaging
F Malglaive, Euromev
Advanced registration and segmentation of CT projection data for industrial applications
L Arrowood1 and P Bingham2
1Information Technology, BWXT Y-12, Tennessee
2Engineering Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee

Ultrasonic calculation of texture validated by EBSD in rolled aluminium and steel sheet
S Essex
Dept of Physics, University of Warwick


11.15
Coffee

Session 6A – Radiography
Chairmen – E A Birt & G A Georgiou

Session 6B – Data Processing and Imaging
Chairman – R Challis
Session 6C – Barkhausen Noise
Chairman – G Y Tian

11.30 Materials microanalysis
technique by dual-energy X-ray tomograghy and
radioscopy
M Iovea, O Duliu, G Mateisi,
M Neagu and M Mangu
Accent Pro 2000 Ltd
Romania
University of Bucharest
I Tiseanu, T Craciunescu,
INFLPR, Magurele, Romania
Developing new information object definitions for DICONDE
L F Arrowood, Y-12
National security complex, Tennessee
P Howard, General Electric Aviation, Cincinnati
Complementary measurement of tensile stress in rolled mild steel by Barkhausen noise and pulsed eddy currents
M Morozov, J Wilson and G Y Tian
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

11.55 Amorphous Silicone portable flat panel inspection systems - cutting edge NDT
R Pincu, Vidisco Ltd, Isreal 
Three-dimensional
monitoring of
substance objects using
Electrical Impedance
Tomography (EIT)
S Mohanna
School of Electrical and 
Computer Engineering, 
The University of Sitan
and Balouchestan, Iran
 
Prediction of residual stress from Barkhausen noise signal
A Sorsa and K Laiviskä, University of Oulu, Finland
S Santa-aho, Tampere University of Technology, Finland


12.20 EC -Film- Free Digital Radiography Achievements
Mr S C Sood, Chairman, Computerised Information
Technology Ltd 
Communicating across
the NDT methods
R Evans, GE Inspection
Technologies
Characterisation of case-hardened gear steel by multiparameter Barkhausen noise measurements
S Santa-aho, M Vippola and T Lepistö
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
M Lindgren
Outotec Research Oy, Finland
12.45 High-resolution computed tomograghy for non-destructive 3D analysis
Dr.Andre Egbert, Dr Oliver Brunke
Phoenix X-ray Systems and Services GmbH 
Application of high energy (450kV) micro focus radiograghy and tomography
Andrew Ramsey, Radio and CT specialist - Metris - X - Tek 
 
In-situ laser shearography of load bearing structures
A A Gibbon, A El-Hamalawi, M Ing, L Lobo, J R Tyrer, Loughborough University 
13.10
Conference Close and Lunch