The Ron Halmshaw Award

Open award for members and non-members, Publications Award

Award criteria

Purpose: The Ron Halmshaw Award is awarded for the best paper published in Insight in the preceding year, on any aspect of industrial radiography or radiology.

Details of the award: The prize is in the form of a certificate and a fixed award sum (£350) by cash from the Ron Halmshaw Fund. (In the case of non-members, part of the prize would be one year's membership.)

Eligibility: To be eligible, the paper must be on the appropriate subject and may be contributed by a member or a non-member.

Frequency: Yearly, if a suitable candidate is deemed.

Nomination arrangements: All members of the Institute’s NDT Sub-Committee will be invited to submit nominations for the award.

Entries: Entries submitted (on a form to be made available by the Institute) will be sent to the Secretary of the Institute.

Awarding arrangements: In January each year, a memo is issued to the judging panel, containing voting instructions, marking sheet, shortlist of name(s), paper title, issue, month and page number and a voting form embossed with the Institute seal. The deadline for return to the Secretariat is 31 March. A judging panel of three is appointed by the NDT Sub-Committee.

In the interest of achieving fair, bias-free results, a system is operated that requires each panel member (any listed authors excepted) to vote anonymously to the Awards Secretary, who is responsible for totalling up the points awarded and notifying the winner to the Secretary.

Publicity: The award will be fully reported in Institute publications and the Secretariat will issue details in a press release to the technical and engineering institutional press.

Presentation: The prize will normally be presented at the NDT Annual Conference, though another appropriate Institute event may be chosen if necessary.

Committee: NDT Sub-Committee.

Winners

2023 winners: Dr Ross Hanna, Dr Mark Sutcliffe, David Carswell, Professor Peter Charlton and Dr Stephen Mosey

The 2023 winners are Dr Ross Hanna, Dr Mark Sutcliffe, David Carswell, Professor Peter Charlton and Dr Stephen Mosey for their paper, titled: ‘Volume integral model for algebraic image reconstruction and computed tomography’, which appeared in Insight, Vol 65, No 9, pp 484-491, September 2023 (DOI: 10.1784/insi.2023.65.9.484).

Dr Ross Hanna is currently a Software Developer at TWI Technology Centre (Wales), working on research and software for inspection, automation and deployment of various non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques. He has a PhD in algebraic reconstruction methods for complex-geometry components from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and his research interests include simulation and modelling, image processing, computer graphics and advanced radiography.

Dr Mark Sutcliffe is a Consultant (software) with TWI, specialising in the design, integration and delivery of NDT software solutions and algorithm development, including full matrix capture (FMC) and virtual source aperture (VSA). With over 20 years of industrial experience, he gained a doctorate in NDT (time-critical synthetic transmit aperture ultrasound imaging) with the

University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2015. Mark has developed and delivered NDT inspection systems for use in nuclear, aerospace and space exploration.

David Carswell has worked as a Software Developer at TWI for the past eight years. He works primarily on hardware integration (with robots, motion controllers and various NDT equipment) and algorithm development. He has a background in software development and computational engineering and has a PhD in the latter from the University of Wales, Swansea.

Professor Peter Charlton is currently Professor in Applied NDT at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has 35 years of industrial and academic experience in the research and development of

advanced automated electromagnetic and ultrasonic NDT imaging systems for the petrochemical, power generation and aerospace industries. In 1995, he was awarded his PhD, titled: ‘A theoretical and experimental study of the magnetic flux leakage method for the analysis of corrosion defects in carbon steel plate’. He is responsible for engagement with key industrial partners and both PhD and MSc research supervision within the School of Engineering.

Dr Stephen Mosey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Computing at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has over 20 years’ industrial and academic experience in the development of advanced ultrasonic imaging equipment for NDT inspection applications in oil & gas, nuclear, aerospace, manufacturing and rail. In 2013, he gained a doctorate in signal and image

processing for NDT (resolution enhancement of B-mode ultrasound images) with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Past winners:
1995   J-E Holmström
1996   Dr E A Birt
1997   A B Wooldridge, Dr R K Chapman, Dr G A Georgiou, I Munns and G S Woodcock
1998   Dr S Ekinci, N Bas, M Aksu, A Yıldırım, M Bingöldag, T Kurtcebe, M Dogruöz, S Sarıçam and N Yılmaz
1999   A McNulty, J McNab and W K J Greenwood
2000   P R Vaidya
2001   R R da Silva, M H S Siqueira, L P Calôba and J M A Rebello
2002   A G Vincent, V Rebuffel, R Guillemaud, L Gerfault and P Y Coulon
2003   Dr G A Georgiou and Mr C R A Schneider
2004   S Smalley and G Wilson
2005   D Mery, D Hahn and N Hitschfeld
2006   Dr G-R Jaenisch, C Bellon, U Samadurau, M E Zhukovskiy and S V Podoliako
2007   V Rebuffel and J-M Dinten
2008   S F Burch and B A Stow
2009   Q Shen, J Gao and C Li
2010   K Arunmutha, P Arun Kumar, T Saravanan, J Philip, T Jayakumar and B Raj
2011   Dr S F Burch
2012   V Riffo and D Mery / J Guo, L Zeng, B Li and W Yu
2013   X Zhao, J-J Hu, T Yang and F Wang
2014   W Gao and Y H Hu
2015    Ge Lijing, Li Linsheng, Xie Jialong and Lin Guoxiang
2016    Changying Dang, Jianmin Gao, Zhao Wang, Yulin Xiao and Yalin Zhao
2017    Domingo Mery, Vladimir Riffo, Irene Zuccar and Christian Pieringer
2018    Stefano Ridolfi
2019    Johann Kastner, Christian Gusenbauer, Bernhard Plank, Jonathan Glinz and Sascha Senck
2020 Andreas Michael Stock, Gabriel Herl, Professor Dr Tomas Sauer and Professor Dr-Ing Jochen Hiller
2021    Mahdi Mirzapour, Amir Movafeghi and Effat Yahaghi
2022    Abdel Rahman Dakak, Valérie Kaftandjian, Philippe Duvauchelle and Patrick Bouvet

Details of publications awards can be found here.

Details of all Institute awards can be found here.