Key dates and participation

12-14 September 2016, East Midlands Conference Centre and Orchard Hotel, Nottingham, UK

Registration is now closed for the 55th Annual British Conference of Non-Destructive Testing, which took place from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 September 2016 at the East Midlands Conference Centre and Orchard Hotel, Nottingham, UK.

Key dates

Deadline submission for abstracts (of no more than 200 words): 13 May 2016
Deadline for submission of full-length papers: 12 August 2016

Topics

We encourage papers from both academia and industry on the following topics:

Rail and axle testing
Aerospace
Power generation
Nuclear
NDT of food
NDT in forensic science
Automated and robotic NDT
Theoretical modelling
Inspection qualification
Composites
Adhesives and bonding
Thermography
Ultrasonics
Phased arrays
Electromagnetics
Radiography
Digital radiography
Digital signal processing and imaging
Novel techniques
Monitoring
Research
Time-of-flight diffraction
Technology transfer in NDT
Medical and related NDT
The needs of NDT end-users

Other relevant topics are welcome.

Submit a paper

Abstracts should be submitted via the website https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ndt2016

To submit an abstract, enter your Author Centre and then click on 'Click here to submit a new manuscript'. Follow the instructions to upload your abstract.

To submit your full paper, login to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ndt2016 and enter your Author Centre. Then click on 'Manuscripts with Decisions'.

You should see the title of your accepted abstract and next to it an option to 'Click here to submit a full paper'. Click on this link and follow the instructions to upload your full paper.

Copyright form, terms and conditions are available at the above website under 'Instructions and Forms'.

All abstracts and papers will be subject to peer review by members of the international scientific advisory committee. All approved papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Papers will be published only upon receiving the full registration fee and a signed copyright form (provided by BINDT upon acceptance of submission) before 12 August 2016.

Selected papers may be published in BINDT's international journal Insight, the International Journal of Condition Monitoring or other leading international journals. Papers related to 'case studies' may be published in BINDT's newsletters, Condition Monitor and NDT News.

For further information contact: Karen Cambridge or Suzanne Purdy, Conference Services, The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, Midsummer House, Riverside Way, Bedford Road, Northampton NN1 5NX, UK. Tel: +44(0)1604 438300; Fax: +44(0)1604 438301; Email: conf@bindt.org