The BINDT Annual Conference Paper Award
Open award for members and non-members, Events Award
Award criteria
Purpose: For the best paper published in the Proceedings of the Institute’s NDT Annual Conference by any author or team of authors. One of the named authors must present the paper in person at the conference.
Eligibility: There are no restrictions on the eligibility of the author or authors of the paper. They need not be members of the Institute.
Details of the award: A £100 voucher to be presented at the end of the NDT Annual Conference.
Frequency: Every year at the NDT Annual Conference.
Nomination arrangements: All papers submitted by a specified deadline (not later than that for inclusion in the conference Proceedings) and satisfying the above eligibility criteria will be considered.
The judging panel will consist of a small group of four NDT Sub-Committee members appointed by the committee. The criteria used by this panel will be similar to those currently used for the John Grimwade Medal and the Young Authors’ Award, ie the contribution to the advancement of scientific knowledge, originality, style and quality, and industrial or commercial importance.
Awarding arrangements: The award will be made at the closing ceremony of the NDT Annual Conference by the Chair of the NDT Sub-Committee.
Committee: NDT Sub-Committee.
Winners
The BINDT Annual Conference Paper Award was not awarded in 2024.
Past winners:
2002 Dr K J Kirk
2003 Dr S F Burch
2004 Dr J Tyrer
2005 D I A Lines
2006 S F Burch, N J Collett, S Terpstra and M V Hoekstra
2007 L J Nelson, K Brown, A Young, L D Jones and R A Smith
2008 S Terpstra and F Hoeve
2009 Prof B Drinkwater and A Bowler
2010 C Charlesworth
2011 M Alamin, G Y Tian, A Andrews and P Jackson
2012 Dr D Lipatis, D Yan and I Cooper
2013 X Xi and F Cegla
2014 Prof R A Smith, N Xie, L J Nelson and S R Hallett
2015 T Stratoudaki, M Clark and P Wilcox
2016 S F Burch and H R Peramatzis
2017 N Karimian, M O’Toole and A Peyton
2018 T Stratoudaki, Y Javadi, W Kerr, P D Wilcox, D Pieris and M Clark
2019 D Lines, Y Javadi, E Mohseni, M Vasilev, C MacLeod, R Vithanage, Z Qiu, R Zimermann, C Loukas, E Foster,
G Pierce and A Gachagan
2020 No Award
2021 No Award
2022 No Award
2023 No Award
Details of all Institute awards can be found here.