BINDT - NDT 2012: Progamme 10-11 September

NDT 2012: Progamme 10-11 September
11-13 September 2012, The Daventry Court Hotel, Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK

Monday 10 September
16.00 onwards	Registration – Hotel Lobby
19.00- 21.00	Welcome buffet – CATS room
Tuesday 11 September
08.00- 09.20	Registration – Hotel Lobby
08.30 - 09.15	Tea and Coffee - Danetree 3 Corridor
09.20	Opening Plenary Paper: Roy Sharpe Prize: ND-materials characterisation to monitor ageing phenomena as a part of lifetime management strategies – thermal ageing, fatigue and irradiation Prof G Dobmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing, Saarbrücken, Germany CATS Room
10.00	*Tea, Coffee and Exhibition – Danetree Suite*
	Session 1A – Ultrasonics, pushing the boundaries Chair: Dr I Baillie CATS Room	Session 1B – Inspection qualification and validation Chair: Prof A Dunhill Charles Room	Session 1C – NDT in the rail industry Chair: Mr J Harris Priestley Room
10.45	Fabrication of flexible and portable thin-film ultrasonic transducers for NDT applications R Hou, K J Kirk and D Hutson, University of the West of Scotland, R Fu and F Placido SUPA, University of the West of Scotland	The HOIS recommended practice for the inspection of weld corrosion S F Burch ESR Technology Ltd	Inspection of the exposed areas of rail axles using alternating currents and thermography D Panggabean and J Rudlin TWI
11.15	Manual ultrasonic inspection of thin metal welds C Carpentier and J Rudlin TWI	Development of a laser-based weld flaw identification system Z Qu, A Bennecer, C Selcuk and T-H Gan, Brunel University	UT inspections of train wheels and axles – latest developments P Marty, G Engl and S Krafft IntelligeNDT System and Services GmbH
11.40	Calibration-less thickness measurements of sub-millimetre thickness samples using electromagnetic acoustic transducers K L McAughey, R S Edwards, M D G Potter and S Dixon University of Warwick	Applications of a 3D modelling and visualisation-software tool for complex geometries G Guse, L Bucklisch and F Mohr IntelligeNDT System and Services GmbH	The Structural Health Condition Monitoring of Rail Steel Using Acoustic Emission Techniques P Yilmazer, A Amini and M Papaelias University of Birmingham
12.05	Shear-horizontal guided wave non-destructive evaluation using EMATs – defect detection and thickness measurement P A Petcher and S Dixon University of Warwick	A phased array inspection solution for the assessment of thin stainless welds D P J Bell, I G Pettigrew and C R Bird Doosan Power Systems	Assessment of corrosion on rail axles A Raude, A Loconte and D Panggabean TWI
12.30- 14.00 14.15	Lunch and Exhibition – Danetree Suite Trade Group AGM and Committee Meeting - Assemble at the conference registration desk
	Session 2A – Phased array Chair: Dr A J Croxford CATS Room	Session 2B – Technology advancement Chair: Dr K Milne Charles Room	Session 2C – NDT in the rail industry continued Chair: Prof K Newton Priestley Room
14.00	Array inspection of intermediate level waste containers A Croxford University of Bristol	Advancement of NDT technologies through the European FP7 research for the benefit of SMEs funding scheme T-H Gan NDT Technology Group, TWI Ltd	A low-cost laser rail profile measurement system J Al-Dalabeeh, C Roberts and M Papaelias University of Birmingham
14.30	Development of an automated scanner and phased array ultrasonic testing technique for the inspection of nozzle welds in the nuclear industry D Liaptsis, D Yan and I Cooper TWI NDT Validation Centre Wales V Papadimitriou, I Roditis and P Chatzakos Innora Ltd-Innovation Robotics Automation	An application-specific design approach for 2D ultrasonic arrays J Dziewierz, A Gachagan, N Lord and A J Mullholland University of Strathclyde	Rapid non-contact rail inspection using rayleigh-like guided waves M Potter, P Petcher and S Dixon University of Warwick
14.55	Detection capabilities of a phased array ultrasonic inspection system for plastic pipe butt fusion joints F Hagglund, M Spicer and M Troughton TWI	Data processing to improve the reliability of automated non-destructive inspection N Brierley, T Tippetts and P Cawley Imperial College, London	The future of rail inspection technology and the INTERAIL FP7 project M Papaelias ¹, S Kerkyras ², F Papaelias ³and K Graham ² ¹University of Birmingham, ²Feldman Enterprises Limited, ³University of Athens
15.20	*Tea, Coffee and Exhibition – Danetree Suite*
16.15	Characterisation of inhomogeneous and anisotropic steel welds by ultrasonic array measurements Z Fan and M Lowe Imperial College	Ultrasonic imaging of electrofusion welded polyethylene pipes employed in the utilities industry A Prakash¹,^2 ,R L O’Leary¹, K Ross², E Clutton² and A Gachagan¹ ¹ University of Strathclyde, ²Impact Solutions Limited	Analysis of alternating current field measurement rail inspection signals J Al-Dalabeeh, C Roberts and M Papaelias University of Birmingham
16.40	An advanced imaging method based on phased array in NDT J X Qiao and M Jobst GE Inspection Technologies	This slot is available for a late submission	Long-range inspection and condition monitoring of rails using guided waves A Wilkinson TWI Nigel Lee will present
17.45	Evening Function – Dinner at the National Space Centre, Leicester We will leave the hotel at 17.45, the coach will be waiting to take us to the Space Centre where we will have a 20 minute show, dinner and a look around the Space Centre. The coach will depart at 22.00 returning to the Daventry Court Hotel