Day one – Wednesday 17 April 2024 |
09.00-09.30 | Registration, tea, coffee and biscuits (upstairs in the exhibition area) |
| All presentations on 17 April 2024 will take place in the Ballroom (situated downstairs by the reception desk) |
09.30-09.40 | Welcome address – Introduction to the programme
| West of England Branch: Darren Mapletoft Carestream, UK |
| Session 1: State of the industry | Chair: Darren Mapletoft |
09.40-10.00 | State of NDT in the military
| Craig Seamark 1710 Naval Air Squadron, UK
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10.00-10.20 | Overview of NDT engineering at Airbus
| Neil Metcalfe Airbus Operations Ltd, UK
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10.20-10.40 | UAM aircraft – Joby
| Ben Davies GKN Aerospace Services Ltd, UK
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10.40-11.20 | Exhibition, tea and coffee (upstairs in the exhibition area) |
| Session 1: State of the industry panel session | Chair: Darren Mapletoft |
11.20-12.20 | Panel session | Annabel Dance, Paul Morgan, Craig Seamark, Neil Metcalfe and Tom Bertenshaw
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12.20-13.06 | Exhibitor spotlight session – as listed below
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| 12.20-12.22 Ultrafine Industrial Ltd 12.22-12.24 Tieval Ltd 12.24-12.26 diondo GmbH 12.26-12.28 Oceanscan Ltd 12.28-12.30 Phoenix Inspection Systems Ltd 12.30-12.32 IMechE Argyll Ruane 12.32-12.34 Peak NDT Ltd 12.34-12.36 Foerster UK Ltd 12.36-12.38 Magnaflux 12.38-12.40 Lavender International NDT Consultancy Services Ltd 12.40-12.42 Fujifilm Europe GmbH 12.42-12.44 Ether NDE Ltd 12.44-12.46 Baugh and Weedon Ltd 12.46-12.48 TPAC NDT UK Ltd 12.48-12.50 Aegelteq Ltd 12.50-12.52 Testia Ltd 12.52-12.54 Eddyfi Technologies 12.54-12.56 Pragma NDT 12.56-12.58 SG NDT 12.58-13.00 PROMAG Technologies Development Ltd 13.00-13.02 Evident Europe GmbH 13.02-13.04 Dolphitech Ltd 13.04-13.06 South West School of NDT |
13.06-14.15 | Exhibition and lunch (stairs in the exhibition area) |
| Session 2: NDT regulations | Chair: Tom Bertenshaw |
14.15-14.35 | NADCAP | Tony Warren Airbus Operations Ltd, UK |
14.35-14.55 | NANDTB update | Guy Lawton Royal Air Force, UK
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14.55-15.05 | Q&A session |
15.05-15.35 | Exhibition, tea and coffee (upstairs in the exhibition area) |
| Session 3: Progression of new technologies in the workplace | Chair: Pete Burrows |
15.35-15.55 | Update on progress of the technology validation group | Tom Bertenshaw GKN Aerospace Services Ltd, UK |
15.55-16.15 | Replacing MPI and FPI with ET: aerospace in the IntaCom project | Owen Rees-Lloyd TWI, UK |
16.15-16.35 | Duplication and falsification of images for digital radiography | Darren Mapletoft Carestream, UK
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16.35-16.55 | Air-coupled ultrasonic inspection using collaborative robot | Craig Popplewell and Héctos Calas, TPAC, France |
16.55-17.05 | Q&A session
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17.05 | Day one raffle and closing address |
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Day two – Thursday 18 April 2024 |
09.00-09.30 | Registration, tea, coffee and biscuits (upstairs in the exhibition area) |
| All presentations on 18 April 2024 will take place in the Ballroom (situated downstairs by the reception desk) |
09.30-09.40 | Welcome address – Introduction to the programme | West of England Branch: Darren Mapletoft Carestream, UK |
| Session 4: Changes in the air and NDT of new materials and processes
| Chair: Tom Bertenshaw |
09.40-10.00 | Joby electric aircraft control surface inspection approach
| Jos Huibers Fokker Technologies, Netherlands
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10.00-10.20 | Fast, deployable, low-energy, 3D X-ray inspection for metal additive and dry-preform at the rate of manufacture
| Martin Holden Adaptix Ltd, UK |
10.20-10.40 | Flexible component identification for automated scanning and real-time defect detection | Randika Vithanage University of Strathclyde, UK
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10.40-11.00 | Embedded senses for aerospace | Shani Lu Inductosense Ltd, UK |
11.00-11.20 | Advanced robotics to inspect aerostructures
| Randika Vithanage University of Strathclyde, UK
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11.20-11.30 | Q&A session |
11.30-12.10 | Exhibition. tea and coffee (upstairs in the exhibition area) |
| Session 5: Artificial intelligence for aerospace | Chair: Kyle Duncan |
12.10-12.30 | Beyond neural networks: Alternative AI's for NDT | Dr Simon Harding Machine Intelligence Ltd, UK
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12.30-12.50 | AI for defect detection | Jemima Goulding Rolls-Royce plc, UK
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12.50-13.10 | Deep learning for autonomous ultrasonic NDE | Sergio Cantero Chinchilla University of Bristol, UK
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13.10-13.30 | Machine learning for automated ultrasonic data analysis
| TBC National Composites Centre, UK
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13.30-13.40 | Q&A session
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13.40-14.40 | Exhibition and lunch (upstairs in the exhibition area) |
| Session 6: Quantum leaps – academic research in NDT | Chair: Annabel Dance |
14.40-15.00 | Ultrasonic imaging of volumetric defects using diffuse signals acquired from a laser vibrometer
| Jie Zhang University of Bristol, UK |
15.00-15.20 | A statistical approach to ultrasonic inspection of complex geometries | Matt Chandler University of Bristol, UK |
15.20-15.40 | Monitoring the development of surface-breaking cracks using permanently installed low-cost ultrasonic arrays in fatigue tests
| Jie Zhang University of Bristol, UK
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15.40-16.00 | Eddy current directional probe for in-line monitoring of automated fibre placement manufacturing
| Meirbek Mussatayev University of Bristol, UK
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16.00-16.10 | Q&A session
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16.10 | Day two raffle and closing address of event |