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


Thursday 18 September
09.00 Registration
09.10 Plenary Paper

What UKAS can do for our industry
Plenary Paper

Routes to Registration with the Engineering Council
Caroline Bull and
Steve Lavender of
BINDT's MQE
Session 5C-Innovation NDT 2
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 Content-based Image Retrieval Technique for Defect Classification of X-ray Welding Images
Ying Yin, Gui Yun Tian, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
  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

Image processing techniques for accurate automatic landmines detection in acoustic to seismic images
O Zahran1, H Kasban2, S Elaraby2, M El-Kordy1and
F Abd El-Samie1
1Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt
2Engineering Dept, Nuclear Research Centre, Egypt

Improvements in ultrasonic inspection of resistance spot welds
J Buckley, Sonatest Ltd
R Servent, Atlantis NDE, Spain

 
10.50
Amorphous silicone portable flat panel inspection systems – cutting edge NDT
R Pincu
Vidisco Ltd, Israel


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 – to be confirmed

Session 6C – Barkhausen Noise
Chairman – G Y Tian

11.30 Reverse geometry X-ray imaging
F Malglaive
Euromev


Signal processing of different signal types to scan encased highly attenuative material
A Schilde1, K Kirk1 and A Fenwick2
1Microscale Sensors, University of the West of Scotland
2NDE Group, QinetiQ plc

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 Materials microanalysis technique by dual-energy X-ray tomography and radioscopy
M Iovea1, O Duliu2, G Mateiasi1, M Neagu1 and M Mangu1
1Accent Pro 2000 Ltd, Romania
2University 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

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 High-resolution computed tomography for non-destructive 3D analysis
A Egbert and O Brunke
Phoenix X-ray Systems + Services GmbH


Three-dimensional monitoring of subsurface objects using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT)
S Mohanna
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Sistan and Balouchestan, Iran


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 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
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