Programme
6-7 April 2022, BAWA Centre, Bristol, UK
| Programme | ||||||||||||
| Day one – Wednesday 6 April 2022 | ||||||||||||
| 09.00-09.30 | Registration, tea, coffee and biscuits (upstairs in the exhibition area) | |||||||||||
| All presentations on 6 April 2022 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 | ||||||||||
| | Session 1: State of the industry | Chair: Pete Burrows | ||||||||||
| 09.40-10.00 | Aerospace regulatory landscape and innovation | Neil Cuddy, Civil Aviation Authority | ||||||||||
| 10.00-10.20 | Beyond the pandemic – Part 145 service provider | Graham McCully, Applus UK Ltd | ||||||||||
| 10.20-10.40 | The continuing impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on MRO NDT operations | Steve Chambers, Morgan Ward (NDT) Ltd | ||||||||||
| 10.40-10.50 | Q&A session | |||||||||||
| 10.50-11.30 | Exhibition, tea and coffee (upstairs in the exhibition area) | |||||||||||
| | Session 2: NDT regulations | Chair: Annabel Dance | ||||||||||
| 11.30-11.50 | ASTM E1444-21: an update and how to ensure the new MPI requirements are met | Pete Burrows, Baugh & Weedon Ltd | ||||||||||
| 11.50-12.10 | Nadcap NDT task group | Tony Warren, Airbus Group Inc | ||||||||||
| 12.10-12.38 | Exhibitor spotlight session | |||||||||||
| 12.10-12.12 Peak NDT Ltd 12.12-12.14 Baugh & Weedon Ltd 12.14-12.16 ETher NDE Ltd 12.16-12.18 Oceanscan Ltd 12.18-12.20 Direct Conversion 12.20-12.22 Pragma Solutions CND Inc 12.22-12.24 Testia Ltd 12.24-12.26 Sonatest Ltd 12.26-12.28 North Star Imaging UK 12.28-12.30 Skills Training UK 12.30-12.32 Nikon Metrology NV 12.32-12.34 Eddyfi Technologies UK 12.34-12.36 Foerster UK Ltd 12.36-12.38 Olympus 12.38-12.40 Labquip NDT Ltd 12.40-12.42 The Phased Array Company | ||||||||||||
| 12.42-13.30 | Exhibition and lunch (upstairs in the exhibition area) | |||||||||||
| | Session 2 continued: NDT regulations | Chair: Annabel Dance | ||||||||||
| 13.30-13.50 | NANDTB | Kevin Pickup, BAE Systems | ||||||||||
| 13.50-14.10 | NANDTB/29 – Remote NDT | Guy Lawton, RAF, and Peter Wood, Rolls-Royce plc | ||||||||||
| 14.10-14.20 | Q&A session | |||||||||||
| Session 3: Progression of new technologies in the workplace | Chair: Darren Mapletoft | |||||||||||
| 14.50-15.10 | Automated defect recognition of composite parts: a case study | Kallia Sapountzi, GKN Aerospace Services Ltd | ||||||||||
| 15.10-15.30 | Non-linear resonance for the rapid assessment of creep in nickel superalloy turbine blades | Daniel Sanmartin, Theta Technologies Ltd | ||||||||||
| 15.30-15.50 | Assisted defect recognition | Nicolas Poelst, X-RIS (X-ray Imaging Solutions) | ||||||||||
| 15.50-16.10 | The development and use of portable scanning force microscopes (SFMs) for early-stage damage detection and life assessment | Ahmed Shibli and Andrew Merrison, ETD Consulting | ||||||||||
| 16.10-16.30 | Improving the reliability of automated X-ray data analysis | Rob Culver, MTC | ||||||||||
| 16.30-16.40 | Q&A session | |||||||||||
| 16.40 | Day one raffle and closing address | |||||||||||
| Day two – Thursday 7 April 2022 | ||||||||||||
| 09.00-09.30 | Registration, tea, coffee and biscuits (upstairs in the exhibition area) | |||||||||||
| All presentations on 7 April 2022 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 | ||||||||||
| | Session 4: Changes in the air and NDT of new materials and processes | Chair: Annabel Dance | ||||||||||
| 09.40-10.00 | UK NDT strategy | Beene M'membe, Aerospace Technology Institute | ||||||||||
| 10.00-10.20 | Investigations into the testing of carbon fibre by the eddy current method | John Hansen, ETher NDE | ||||||||||
| 10.20-10.40 | Increase near-surface resolution in Ti/Ni alloys | Vincent Massol, The Phased Array Company | ||||||||||
| 10.40-10.50 | Q&A session | |||||||||||
| 10.50-11.30 | Exhibition, tea and coffee (upstairs in the exhibition area) | |||||||||||
| | Session 5: New market opportunities – UAMs and E-VTOLs | |||||||||||
| 11.30-11.50 | The new E-VTOLs and the NDT surrounding it | Lawrence Blakeley, Vertical Aerospace | ||||||||||
| 11.50-12.10 | Materials challenges relating to liquid hydrogen powered aerospace | Melissa Riley, TWI | ||||||||||
| 12.10-12.30 | SHM on airframes and structures | Dr Aswin Haridas, Testia GmbH | ||||||||||
| 12.30-12.40 | Q&A session | |||||||||||
| 12.40-13.40 | Exhibition and lunch (upstairs in the exhibition area) | |||||||||||
| | Session 6: Quantum leaps – academic research in NDT | |||||||||||
| 13.40-14.00 | The potential for 3D mapping of porosity in CFRP laminates using the ultrasonic analytic signal | Nikolay Pilashev and Robert Smith, University of Bristol | ||||||||||
| 14.00-14.20 | Suppression of front and back surface reflections in ultrasonic signal responses from composites | Maria Zilidou and Robert Smith, University of Bristol | ||||||||||
| 14.20-14.40 | Design and NDT considerations for composite and metallic hydrogen tanks | Tom Bertenshaw, GKN Aerospace Services Ltd | ||||||||||
| 14.40-15.00 | Non-linear ultrasonic stimulated thermography for aerospace structures | Michele Meo, F Mevissen and M Boccaccio, University of Bath | ||||||||||
| 15.00-15.10 | Q&A session | |||||||||||
| 15.10 | Day two raffle and closing address of event | |||||||||||
For further information contact:
Events and Awards Department, The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing,
Midsummer House, Riverside Way, Bedford Road, Northampton NN1 5NX, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1604 438300; Email: conf@bindt.org
