NDT 2012: Programme 12 September
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
Charles Room

Session 3C – Applications

Chair: Dr R Edwards
Priestley Room

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
1
Plant Integrity Ltd
2
IKnowHow
3
InnoTecUK 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
 

 

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
O Brunke1, F Hansen2,
I Stuke3, F Butz2 and F Jeltsch²
1GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH
2Volkswagen AG, Hannover Foundry
3GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH

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
CATS Room

Session 4B – Aerospace continued

Chair: Prof P Cawley  Charles Room

Session 4C – Applications

Chair: Mr T O’ Hare
Priestley Room

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

 

15.10 Tea, Coffee and Exhibition – Danetree Suite


Session 4B – NDT in industry

Chair: Dr C Brett
Charles Room


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
Employing acoustic emission for monitoring oil film regime
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
Inspection of Link 2 of a mooring chain
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