11-13 September 2012, The Daventry Court Hotel, Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK
| Wednesday 12 September | ||||
| 08.15 |
Registration – Hotel Lobby | |||
| 08.15-08.45 | Tea and Coffee - Danetree Suite | |||
| 08.50 | Plenary Paper – ‘BINDT Strategy and the NDT and CM community’, Cameron Sinclair, CEO, BINDT CATS room | |||
| 09.20 | Plenary Paper – Tracking the modern railway, J Harris, Senior Technology Engineer (NDE), Network Rail CATS room | |||
| Session 3A – Ultrasonics applications Chair: Prof C Scruby CATS Room |
Session 3B – Aerospace Chair: Dr E A Birt |
Session 3C – Applications
Chair: Dr R Edwards | ||
| 09.50 |
Real-time full matrix capture with focusing of known geometry through dual-layered media M Sutcliffe, M Weston, B Dutton, P Charlton, K Donne and I Cooper TWI Ltd |
Eddy-current arrays R Hughes University of Warwick |
Development of an advanced medium range ultrasonic technique for mooring chains inspection in water G Edwards1,S Kokkorikos2 , A Garcia,PMP3, C Patton3 and T Sattar 3 1Plant Integrity Ltd 2IKnowHow 3InnoTecUK Ltd | |
| 10.15 |
Characterisation of different surface breaking defect geometries using Rayleigh waves F Hernández-Valle, A R Clough and R S Edwards University of Warwick |
Quantitative non-destructive evaluation of thermal barrier coating erosion using photoluminescent layers C Pilgrim, S Berthier, A Heyes and J Feist Imperial College, London |
Permanently-installed guided wave pipeline monitoring A Galvagni and P Cawley Imperial College | |
| 10.40 11.30 |
Tea, Coffee and Exhibition – Danetree Suite Industry Annual General Meeting - assemble at the conference registration desk | |||
| 11.15 |
The use of surface wave enhancements in a fully optical system for the detection and characterisation of stress corrosion cracking in pipework A R Clough, F Hernández-Valle and R S Edwards University of Warwick |
Comparative evaluation of NDT techniques for high-quality bonded composite repairs B Dutton, S Aranda, G Ziegmann, R Chemama and G Kanderakis TWI Ltd
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Inspection of pipe networks containing bends using long-range guided waves R Sanderson TWI Ltd Nigel Lee will present | |
| 11.40 |
Ultrasonic NDE of titanium diffusion bonds using signal phase E Escobar-Ruiz Imperial College |
Using UT to characterise defects in composites detected with digital shearography J Gryzagoridis Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
A new concept for high-speed atline and inline CT for up to 100% mass production process control | |
| 12.05 | A plate waveguide design for ultrasonic flow measurement in hostile environments M Laws, S M Dixon and S N Ramadas University of Warwick |
THz instrumentation for NDT of aerospace composites A Belitskaya SRON Netherlands Institute of Space Research |
There’s something about eddy currents J Hansen ETher NDE | |
| 12.30-14.15 12.30 |
Lunch and Exhibition - Danetree Suite BINDT Annual General Meeting – CATS Room Followed by Lunch and Exhibition in the Danetree Suite | |||
| Session 4A – Ultrasonics at high temperatures
Chair: Prof S Dixon |
Session 4B – Aerospace continued
Chair: Prof P Cawley Charles Room |
Session 4C – Applications
Chair: Mr T O’ Hare | ||
| 14.15 |
High-temperature ultrasonic transducers using lithium niobate piezocomposite K J Kirk, R Hou, N M Pragada, L Torbay, N Schmarje and D Hutson University of the West of Scotland |
Defect detection for aircraft components: an approach using ultrasonic guided waves and neural networks A Haig and P Stavrou TWI Giorgos Asfis will present |
Online corrosion/erosion monitoring using permanently-installed ultrasonic sensors – report on experience from the field F Cegla1, P Cawley1, J Davies2, P Collins2 and J Allin2 1Imperial College 2Permasense Ltd | |
| 14.45 |
High-temperature ultrasonic measurements using EMATs S Burrows, Y Fan and S Dixon University of Warwick |
Acoustography NDE of aerospace composites J S Sandhu1 and C Pergantis2 1Santec Systems Inc 2US Army Research Laboratory |
Robotic non-destructive inspection D Herbert, S G Pierce and M Morozov University of Strathclyde
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| 15.10 | Tea, Coffee and Exhibition – Danetree Suite | |||
| Session 4B – NDT in industry
Chair: Dr C Brett |
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| 15.35 |
Guided wave transducers for inspection of high-temperature superheated steam pipes A Mohimi, G Edwards, T-H Gan and W Balachandran Brunel University |
M Hamel, A Addali and D Mba Cranfield University |
Effect of age on concrete core strength results S A Al-Mishhadani 1H H Joni1 and M S Radhi2 1University of Technology Baghdad 2University of Kerbala | |
| 16.00 |
Development of sputtered AlN thin film ultrasonic transducers for durable high temperature applications R Hou, D Hutson and K J Kirk University of the West of Scotland |
Determining slug velocity in two-phase flow with acoustic emission M A Alssayh, A Addali and D Mba Cranfield University |
Construction of pattern recognition system optimised for X-ray inspection of plastic electronics and OLED displays M G Ponomarev, C Selcuk and T-H Gan Brunel University | |
| 16.25 |
Simulation based comparative study of emats coil structure for long range utrasonic testing E C Ashigwuike, W Balachandran and S Thomas Brunel University |
Phased array inspection solution for HDPE butt welds D MacLennan, J Allen, C R Bird and I G Pettigrew Doosan Power Systems |
J Rudlin TWI Ltd | |
| 16.45 |
President’s Honour Lecture – Transition from NDT to structural health monitoring (SHM) – potential and challenges Prof P Cawley, Imperial College CATS Room | |||
| 19.30 for 20.00 |
Pre-dinner drinks - Danetree Suite Conference Dinner – Danetree Suite | |||


























