Programme 17 September 2020

Thursday 17 September 2020
09.30- 09.50	Plenary Paper – Safer – drones or ladders? Which is really the ultimate cheap non-destructive inspection tool? A Proto Founder of PhantomFlightSchool, UK Chair: Dr C Brett
	Session 7A – Modelling Chair: Dr R Chapman
09.50- 10.05	[7A1] RCNDE CDT paper: Understanding the effects of microstructural heterogeneities on ultrasonic wave propagation using finite element models W Y Yeoh, B Lan, P Huthwaite and M Lowe Imperial College London, UK
10.05- 10.20	[7A2] RCNDE CDT paper: Developing a displacement-based finite element formulation for solid-fluid coupling suitable for GPU calculations Y Simillides, P Huthwaite, M Kalkowski and M Lowe Imperial College London, UK
10.20- 10.35	[7A3] RCNDE CDT paper: Modelling microtextured regions and their influence on acoustic plane wave propagation within Ti-6Al-4V D Shepherd, F Dunne, B Britton and M Lowe Imperial College London, UK
10.35- 10.45	Ten-minute comfort break
10.45- 11.00	[7A4] Modelling and simulation of ultrasonic arrays for sizing non-sharp defects S Bhat, J Zhang and N Larrosa University of Bristol, UK
11.00- 11.15	[7A5] A hybrid physics-data model for end-of-line-test failure prediction A Baghbanpourasl, C Eitzinger and D Kirchberger Profactor GmbH, Austria
11.15- 11.30	[7A6] A protocol for model-assisted qualification of NDT inspections D Hallam HSTL, UK
11.30- 11.50	Technical question & answer session
11.50- 12.40	Exhibitors’ industry session Chair: C Simmonds 11.50-12.00 – Latest tools for thickness, corrosion and erosion inspection and monitoring in extreme environments, W Vickers, Ionix Advanced Technologies, UK 12.00-12.10 – Creaform 3D scanning solutions for asset integrity assessment, R Usai, Creaform, Germany 12.10-12.20 – Inspection and specialist equipment for the energy and utility sectors, M Coaster and K Quirk, Inspection Consultants Ltd and WesDyne 12.20-12.30 – Proceq UT8000: The future of ultrasonic flaw detection, C Udell, Proceq Ltd 12.30-12.40 – Inspecting weld: it’s plane… wave imaging!, G Neau, Eddyfi Technologies, Canada
12.40- 12.50	Industry question & answer session
12.50- 13.30	Lunch break
13.30- 13.50	Plenary Paper – Apprenticeships: the NDT success story I Baillie Rolls-Royce plc, UK Chair: J Moody
	Session 8A – Automated and Robotic Inspection Chair: Professor I Cooper
13.50- 14.05	[8A1] RCNDE CDT paper: Increasing positional accuracy for mobile robotics for pipe inspection using sensor fusion A McGregor¹, G Dobie¹, C MacLeod¹, N Pearson² and A Gachagan¹ ¹Strathclyde University, UK ²Eddyfi Technologies
14.05- 14.20	[8A2] RCNDE CDT paper: Multi-energy XCT imaging of highly contrasting components using optimised projection fusion O R Helps^1,2, P J Withers¹, A L Clarke², T L Burnett¹ and P I Nicholson² ¹University of Manchester, UK ²TWI Technology Centre Wales, UK
14.20- 14.35	[8A3] Laser-assisted surface-adaptive ultrasound (SAUL) inspection of wire + arc additive manufactured (WAAM) samples with complex surface profiles using a phased array roller probe E Mohseni¹, R Vithanage¹, Z Qiu¹, Y Javadi¹, M Vasilev¹, C N MacLeod¹, D Lines¹, R Zimmermann¹, S G Pierce¹, A Gachagan¹, J Ding² and S Williams² ¹University of Strathclyde, UK ²Cranfield University, UK
14.35- 14.45	Ten-minute comfort break
14.45- 15.00	[8A4] Review of non-contact methods for automated aircraft inspections P Lafioscaa and I-S Fan Cranfield University, UK
15.00- 15.15	[8A5] An automatic non-destructive inspection based on the combination of multiple phased array probes and convolutional neural network B Sheng¹, I Szabo¹, S Malo¹, J Kanfoud¹ and C Nageswaran² ¹Brunel University London, UK ²TWI Ltd, UK
15.15- 15.35	Technical question & answer session
15.35	Webinar close for the day

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