Programme
17-18 April 2024
BAWA Centre, Bristol, UK
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 | |
| 10.00-10.20 | Overview of NDT engineering at Airbus | Neil Metcalfe Airbus Operations Ltd, UK | |
| 10.20-10.40 | UAM aircraft – Joby | Ben Davies GKN Aerospace Services Ltd, UK | |
| 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 | |
| 12.20-13.06 | Exhibitor spotlight session – as listed below | ||
12.20-12.22 Ultrafine Industrial Ltd | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 17.05 | Day one raffle and closing address | ||
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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 12.30-12.50 | AI for defect detection | Jemima Goulding Rolls-Royce plc, UK | |
| 12.50-13.10 | Deep learning for autonomous ultrasonic NDE | Sergio Cantero Chinchilla University of Bristol, UK | |
| 13.10-13.30 | Machine learning for automated ultrasonic data analysis | TBC National Composites Centre, UK | |
| 13.30-13.40 | Q&A session | ||
| 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 | |
| 15.40-16.00 | Eddy current directional probe for in-line monitoring of automated fibre placement manufacturing | Meirbek Mussatayev University of Bristol, UK | |
| 16.00-16.10 | Q&A session | ||
| 16.10 | 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; Web: www.bindt.org
