CONTENTS
News.............................................. 1-5
Asia-Pacific Regional Group...............6
European Regional Group..................7
Pan-American Regional Group.........10
Calendar of Events............................12

The World Organisation for NDTVolume 8 Issue No 3

March 2010

CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

On the road toharmonisation

Plan now to attend European ConferenceAlready it is more than a year since the 17th WCNDT in
Shanghai and the election of a new ICNDT Executive
Committee. During the year we were very active and,as promised at the General Assembly in Shanghai, we have
prepared a Strategic Plan for our term of office, 2008-12.
The Strategic Plan was reviewed by the Policy and General
Purposes Committee when we met during the Asia-PacificConference in Yokohama in November and approved subject
to some amendments. It will be published soon on the ICNDT
website.
The calendar of the ICNDT Executive revolves aroundkey events such as the World Conference (WCNDT) and theRegional Conferences (APCNDT, ECNDT, ACNDT and PanAmerican NDT). We maintain an online diary to help NDT Societies make their plans
to avoid clashes with these key events and we time our Executive and PGP meetings tocoincide with the conferences in order that we can meet the wider membership.
It was a real pleasure to be in Japan for the Asia-Pacific NDT Conference. Executive
members had travelled from South Africa, China, UK, Germany, Brazil, Australia, Austria,
India and the USA to meet colleagues on the PGP from Japan, New Zealand, Korea, USA,
Canada, Spain and Croatia. At the WG1 meeting on Qualification and Certification wewere joined by colleagues from Russia and Singapore. Yokohama is a beautiful modern city
and we enjoyed three days of sunshine until the rains came!
It’s now time to plan to attend the 10th European Conference in Moscow in June 2010(http://www.ecndt2010.ru/eng/welcome/). There will be a very comprehensive technicalprogramme and a large exhibition. Both will provide opportunities for showcasing ‘global’
NDT technology to Russia and Europe and for visitors to see the excellent R&D, technologies
and opportunities that Russia has to offer. Moscow is a beautiful city, especially in latespring. Now is the time to plan to secure early-bird discounts, the cheapest airfares andbest hotel deals. The Conference Director is Professor Vladimir Klyuev, Honorary Member
of ICNDT and President of the Russian Society for NDT and Technical Diagnostics. He andhis colleagues will offer a warm welcome and excellent hospitality.
We will have a meeting of the ICNDT General Assembly during the conference with animportant agenda and opportunity for the ICNDT membership to help shape our plans forthe next two years.
I look forward to seeing you in Moscow in June.

Dr J M Farley
Chairman, ICNDTC

EN and ISO representatives met in
Madrid on 17 September 2009 to
begin the process of harmonising
standards EN473 and ISO9712. The
initiative, arising from discussions between
the Chairs of CEN TC138 (Patrick Fallouey)
and ISO TC135 (Dr Hajime Hatano) is
supported by ICNDT.
At the first meeting of a joint working
group of the two committees, ICNDTChairman, Mike Farley, presented the results
and recommendation of a workshop on the
topic at the 17th WCNDT in Shanghai. John
Thompson presented an analysis of the key
differences between the standards and theexpert delegates, led by Co-Chairs Patrick
Fallouey and Hajime Hatano, discussed
how these can be resolved in a harmonised
standard. None of the differences wereconsidered sufficiently important to prevent
mutual recognition.
It is hoped to achieve the first draft of aharmonised standard by the next meetingof the joint working group, to be held inconjunction with the European Conference
on NDT in June 2010 in Moscow.
In the meantime, the joint working
group of CEN/TC138/AHG9 and ISO/
TC135/WG3 is recommending to its parent
committees the issue of a declaration:“Notwithstanding the detail differences
between the present versions of ISO9712 andEN473, the competence of NDT personnel
certified according to these standards is
considered effectively equivalent.
It is the employer’s responsibility, prior
to issue of the authorisation to work, tocheck that an individual’s certification(EN473 or ISO9712) and any additional
employer-administeredjob-specifictraining and examination are adequate for
the NDT tasks to be executed.”Harmonisation of the two standards is nolonger a dream. With the leadership in CEN,
ISO and ICNDT it is a real possibility.

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Fax: +44 (0)1604 231489; Email: info@bindt.org

Editor:		

Douglas J Marshall, The Canadian Institute for NDE (CINDE), 135 Fennell
Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3T2, Canada. Tel: +1 (905) 387-1655; Fax:
+1 (905) 574-6080; Email: d.marshall@cinde.ca

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Email: s.bond@cinde.ca

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Published three times per year.
Editorial contributions are welcomed.
Articles should be sent to Sharon Bond, CINDE. Email: s.bond@cinde.ca
Views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the International Committee for
Non-Destructive Testing. No liability is accepted whatsoever for errors or omissions.
ICNDT Member Societies are authorised to distribute this newsletter and/or its contents, however
permission should be obtained for reproduction of individual articles and extracts.

Future ICNDTCommittee Meetings
Executive
Monday 8 March 2010
Teleconference
13h00 UK Time
Sunday 6 June 2010
Moscow

General AssemblyThursday 10 June 2010
Moscow, Russia

PGP
Saturday 13 November 2010
Houston, Texas, USA(Provisional)

The next ICNDT Journal will be published in June 2010Material should be sent to Sharon Bond, email: s.bond@cinde.ca by 30 April 2010

Order of Australia Medals for Tony Sonneveld and Charlie PopeA

ustralian Institute for NDT (AINDT)
members Tony Sonneveld andCharlie Pope had special reasons tocelebrate Australia Day 2010 this January –they were each honoured with an Order ofAustralia Medal (OAM).
Both were awarded the medals forservice to the industry of non-destructive
testing, while Tony Sonneveld received
an additional citation for service to thecommunity, in particular for his tirelesswork in raising funds and awareness of
prostate cancer since being diagnosed in
2003.
Charlie Popeis probably best
known for hisrole as FounderandManaging
Directorof
C W Pope andAssociates (nowknown as Bureau
Veritas Australia),
for 30 years since1969. He was Charlie Pope
Chairman of thepanel of examiners of AINDT from 1983 to
1988, Chairman of the NDT Accreditation
Advisory Committee of the National
Association of Testing Authorities from 2000
to 2004 and a member of various NDTrelated committees of Standards Australia,
including Chairman of the NDT of Metals

2and Materials Committee until 2002.
Charlie Pope has been involved in thedevelopment of online training materials
for distance education and was a lecturer atthe Hunter Institute at TAFE in New South
Wales and Newcastle. He won the AINDTJ H Cole Award for significant contribution
to NDT in Australia in 2002.
Tony Sonneveld is said to have gained
enough titles, achievements and awards to“fill his own encyclopaedia”. He was madean
Honorary
Member of ICNDTin 2008 and wastheAustraliandelegate to thecommittee from1985 to 2008.
He has been amember of AINDT
for 36 years andwas the Federal
President
from Tony Sonneveld
1981 to 1983,
State President NSW Branch from 1977
to 1978 and member of the NSW Branch
Council in 1983.
He is a member of the Standards
Association of Australia and has served
on several sub-committees concernedwith NDT and inspection. He has been
an assessor at the National Association of
Testing Authorities for 20 years in the fieldsof mechanical and non-destructive testing.

Tony Sonneveld received the Pawlowski
Award from ICNDT in 2008 and has also
won the AINDT’s J H Cole Award. He
was project manager and publisher of thebook History of Non-Destructive Testing inAustralia, released in 2004 by AINDT.
He is Consumer Ambassador of theProstate Cancer Foundation of Australia(PCFA) and has been Chairman/Directorof the PCFA New South Wales Board forthree years.
Tony, who will officially sign off at theEuropean Conference in Moscow in June,
was typically magnanimous when speakingof his award of the OAM: “It’s really areflection of the work a lot of people havedone on committees around Australia andinternationally to advance the qualifications
and experience and acceptance of a very
important industry,” he said.
“Over a period of years I employed
and trained many people who stayedin the industry and made marvellous
contributions,” said Tony, who migrated from
Holland to Australia when he was four.
“I probably added a bit of humour tothe industry,” he concluded, and we cancertainly vouch for that. Long may it andhe continue.
In an email message congratulating thepair, ICNDT President Mike Farley said:“Congratulations Tony and Charles on yourvery well deserved recognition. We are allvery proud of you.”

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ICNDT GUIDE AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Why is the ICNDT Guide important?
The following message, from an undisclosed source, illustrates the importance and usefulness of the
ICNDT Guide to implementation of ISO 9712.

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he problem is that the local industry does not understandthe qualification and certification process for NDT, or
how NDT really affects them – in both economic andsafety terms.
NDT in this country started about 35 years ago when the
petrochemical industry here was very young. There were only two or
three plants, and only one NDT service company. Since it is mainly apetrochemical industry, the API and ASME standards are applicable.
In those days, SNT-TC-1A allowed self-appointed Level 3, so this NDTcompany pretty much started off with no qualification or certification
programme, and the end user did not know any better.
As more plants commenced operations, more NDT service
companies were set up, and most of them used the same personnel
that had been qualified within – shall we say – systems ‘loosely’
based on TC1A. The end users still did not understand theprinciples of NDT personnel qualification. So, at that point, we
had ill-trained NDT inspectors and NDT company owners chasing
the dollar, concluding that training and proper qualification costs
too much – and they see no real need to change this, because the
NDT industry was never audited.
Fast forward to today. We have the same older NDT companies
but many, many more plants. But here is the difference: industry is
now global and must meet the demands for quality and safety frominsurers and end users, and everyone is being audited. ISO 9001 is
demanded, and ‘TQM’ here and ‘continuous improvement’ there! So
now these old NDT companies need to shape up, and this is whatsome of them do: They send their owners/directors to the US to sit
the ASNT NDT Level 3 exam. Once they have an ASNT NDT Level3, even though they know better, they still short-cut their way throughthe system by becoming ‘Certification Mills’. If they need qualification
documents to satisfy an audit, within 24 hours their NDT inspectors
suddenly have all they need for the employer to be able to bid oncontracts and tenders. And the end user does not know any better.
Because they have been dealing with the NDT companies foryears and know the older inspectors well, the end user assumes
that since this inspector has been doing work for them for so long
he is properly trained. The documents say so, but it is not so. There
are many openings in SNT-TC-1A that, if personal integrity issacrificed, can be exploited. Still nobody thoroughly audits NDTservice companies or NDT personnel and everything is left to thediscretion of the employer – an interested party.
However, we are on the threshold of change. Foreign auditors
are uncovering these unethical activities. Also, since the inceptionof my NDT school three years ago, I have been teaching NDTcompanies, end users and the public about the proper route to
NDT qualification and certification. So, slowly, the end user
(industry) is being educated and they are beginning to understandwhat they need to look for and what they should demand. But weare still far behind in this area.
There is now so much NDT work that inspectors are jumping fromone employer to the next, and the individual inspector wants morecertificate portability. Industry is starting to see the potential benefit of
implementing third party certification standards such as ISO 9712. But
who is to pay for this? How is it to be done? The key players in industry
do not have the necessary ‘volunteer’ time and the shareholders anddirectors of these petrochemical plants are near unreachable. How
does one get industry to come together for the greater good? Orovercome resistance to change from the older NDT companies, who
see third party certification as a drain on profit margins?
What this country needs is an independent NDT personnel
certification body that is privately owned by people who do not profit
from NDT contracts or tenders, but who have permanent and part-time

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key personnel fromindustry (end users, not
NDT companies) to
support the scheme.
Thiscertifying
body should berecognised
andaccepted by industry(end users), and by
theinternational
NDT communities
through some formofMultilateral
Recognition
Agreement (MRA),
then we may
see growth withstability. To initiate
this, what wereally need is
guidanceandfunding.
Thedevelopment
andimplementation of such a programme will not be easy,
but I am confident that it will eventually happen – if not through methen through the endeavors of some other person. One cannot stopchange and progress forever.”
August 2009For
further
information
on
the
ICNDT
Guide,
visit the ICNDT website: www.icndt.org or contact: John
Thompson, Chairman, ICNDT Working Group 1, email: john.
thompson@bindt.org

The Value of NDT – articles invitedT

he International Committee for Non-Destructive Testingis inviting editorial contributions for the ICNDT Journal
by means of an award for the best published case study
expounding the value of NDT.
The case studies should describe a real-life installation orapplication, detail problems and challenges encountered and how
they were solved and, ideally, state the amount of money saved aswell as explain any additional benefits or advantages that resulted
from the employment of NDT or condition monitoring equipment,
systems, techniques and/or services.
Each article, which must be of no more than 1000 words inlength, should be illustrated with up to a maximum of five figures,
diagrams or photographs, which may be in colour.
Prospective contributors are requested to submit articles toDavid Gilbert at david.gilbert@bindt.org
Please note that ICNDT editorial staff reserve the right toedit, amend, reject or re-schedule copy submitted without priorreference to the contributor.
Contributors are requested to ensure that articles submitted
are of quality and originality and are written in good English. Fullresponsibility for the article(s) rests with the authors, who, whereapplicable, must have obtained permission to publish the material,
including permission to use any materials that may be protected bycopyright.

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OBITUARIES

Obituary: Xavier Deliege
1935 – 2009

Obituary: George Pherigo
1938 – 2009t is with deep regret that we record
here the death of our friend andcolleague Mr Xavier Deliege.
Xavier Deliege was one of thefounders of the Belgian Association for
Nondestructive Testing (BANT) in 1985.
He was also Treasurer of EFNDT since its
inception in 1998 until 2004.
At the peak of his career he was
Quality
Managerat
Magotteaux,
the world-class group of foundries. He Xavier Deliege
spent his early retirement managing
BANT and devoted his entire time tothe certification body, being EFNDT Treasurer, President ofCertification Bureau and Representative of Belgium in CEN
and ISO. He led his second career to the service of certified
personnel and NDT in general. Xavier was a discrete person,
though if required he was able to raise his voice whenappropriate to protect the NDT certification scheme and ‘his’
Belgian Association. Xavier was known to be pleasant andfriendly.
Xavier retired from NDT in 2004 to spend deserved free timewith his family and grandchild in Spain.
However, he stayed active in the shadows, giving his advice
and opinions about the new standards and certification in
general.
He leaves a beloved wife, two sons and a grandchild. On
the professional side, although being retired for so many years,
he leaves a lot of people who learned from him most of theircertification knowledge and interest in NDT.
Frederic Carpentier, Secretary of the Certification Bureau
at BANT, said: “I owe him most of my contact opportunities incertification and a sense of duty regarding the NDT certification
community that he introduced me to.
“This is my opportunity to pay him a tribute.”

eorge Pherigo, NDT pioneer wellknown in the USA and throughout
the world, passed away on Sunday
27 December 2009 in North Carolina.
George was intensely loved andadmired by many family members andloyal friends near and far. George’s
life was epitomised by a yearning forknowledge and adventure. Beginning witha degree from St Cloud State University
and culminating in a doctorate degree,
education was both his occupation and George Pherigo
his passion. After service in the National
Guard, he began teaching, first in high school in California, thenin vocational school in Hutchinson, Minnesota.
He earned an award as Minnesota Vocational Teacher of theYear and was an innovator in the field of non-destructive testing. His
expertise led him into the national offices of ASNT in Columbus,
Ohio, and then to the education and training department of J A
Jones in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eventually, he began his own
companies, including Flawtech and PHDiversified in Harrisburg,
North Carolina. His career awards and recognitions are too
numerous to mention, but those who knew him would know hevalued the journey more than the finish line.
Along on that journey was his friend, partner and wife, Jean,every step of the way. Their travels took them to the ends of theearth and their home was filled with mementos and memories ofthe friends they cherished. They never met a stranger and simply
loved to absorb and share experiences with every person who
crossed their path.
After Jean’s death in 2006, and his parents’ deaths since then,George fought a valiant battle against non-smoker’s lung cancer with
the incredible doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
George was a firm believer that when we die our energy is merelytransformed – so he will always be with us, teaching and learning.

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10th ECNDT Exhibition
7-11 June 2010
Expocentre, Moscow
l 5000 visitors from oil & gas, chemical, machinery construction, power engineering, 				 shipbuilding and aviation industries.
l 150 NDT equipment engineering companies and manufacturers from 52 countries.
l Science, education and certification centres.
l New NDT equipment demonstration; round table discussions.
l Leading international and Russian NDT periodicals.

For participation enquiries:
Tel: +7 (495) 411 99 00; Fax: +7 (495) 933 0656; Email: exhibition@ecndt2010.ru
Deadline for stand reservation: 30 April 2010www.ecndt2010.ru
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18th WCNDTTHEME
NDT IN SERVICE
OF SOCIETY –in safety, assurance,
quality control andcondition monitoring.

Contact Details
Local Conference Secretariat
The Conference Company
South Africa
Tel: +27 31 303 9852
Fax: +27 31 303 9529
Nina Freysen-Pretorius(nina@confco.co.za)
Deidre Hancke-Hayson(deidre@confco.co.za)

Conference Website:www.wcndt2012.org.za

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Contact:
N Wagle – narayan.wagle@hed.ltindia.com
N Ooka – nori.ooka@rio.odn.ne.jp

Regional Report
ASIA-PACIFIC

Report on the 13th Asia-Pacific Conference
for Non-Destructive Testing (APCNDT)
Compiled from a report written by John Maccarone, AINDTT

he 13th APCNDT was held at Yokohama, Japan, from 8 to 13
November 2009. This event was organised by the JapaneseSociety for Non-Destructive Inspection (JSNDI), ably supported by
an International Advisory Committee (IAC) that included New Zealand(host of the 12th APCNDT) and India (host of the 14th APCNDT).
The conference was held at the Pacifico International Grand
Hotel, which is located on Yokohama Bay and close to many
shopping malls and entertainment centres.

l Safety assessment of nuclear power
plant in the case of an earthquake,by Dr Shunichi Suzuki (Tokyo ElectricPower Company Inc, Japan)
There were three concurrent sessions
after each plenary lecture and the streams
covered included: ultrasonics, acoustic
emission testing, infrared thermographic
testing, strain testing, optical methods,
radiography,
neutronradiography,
reliability, fatigue and structures, industrial JSNDI President Dr
applications, eddy current testing, magnetic Masumi Saka at thetesting methods, personnel qualification opening ceremony
and certification, materials characterisationand the nuclear industry. Conference organisers advised that there
were around 200 papers and 76 poster presentations.
As usual a number of committee meetings were held throughout
the conference. These included:l ICNDT PGPC (Policy and General Purposes Committee) meeting.

APCNDT conference venue

At the time of writing this report the full attendance list was
not available but conference organisers advised there were around250 delegates registered, which is the average for APCNDT
conferences. The JSNDI were a little disappointed at the numbers
and they claim the global financial crisis had hit the region heavily.
Approximately 21 nations were represented at the 13th APCNDT.
Sixteen companies had exhibition booths. The majority wereJapanese-based. Major sponsors were GE Inspection Technologies,
KJTD (Krautkramer Japan) and FujiFilm. The South African Institutefor NDT also had a table to promote the 18th World Conference
for NDT, to be held in Durban in 2012. India was also there
promoting the 14th APCNDT, to be held in Mumbai in 2013.

Some of the ICNDT PGP attendeesl ICNDT WG1 (NDT Qualification and Certification Committee).
l Third Workshop on NDT for Enhancement of Co-operation
with Asia-Pacific Societies.
l APCNDT Committee.
l Member nations of APCNDT were given an opportunity
to present an overview of how NDT qualification andcertification was managed in their own regions and to confirm
if ISO 9712 was being followed.
l ISO/TC 135/SC 8 (Infrared thermography for non-destructive
testing) meeting.
The 14th APCNDT Conference will be held in Mumbai, India,
in November 2013.

New PASNT Administrative
Council elected for 2009-2011

ICNDT President Dr Mike Farley (second right) and EFNDT President
Professor Vjera Krstelj (left) chat with Leepipe Inspection Technologies’
representatives at the exhibition

Dr Masumi Saka, President of the JSNDI, and Dr Norikazu
Ooka, Chairman of the APCNDT, opened the conference.
There were four plenary lectures presented:
l Current status and future strategy of national energy R&D
programme and overview of related NDE research in Korea,
by Dr Joon-Hyun Lee (Korean Institute of Energy Evaluation
and Planning, Korea)l Harmonisation of NDT practice: Experience of a third-world
country, by Dr Abdul Nassir Ibrahim (Malaysia Nuclear
Agency, Malaysia)l Research and development in NDE and component healthmonitoring, by Dr Glenn M Light (Southwest ResearchInstitute, USA)

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he Pakistan Society for Non-Destructive Testing (PASNT) was
founded in 1996 with multiple objectives. In order to run its
affairs and as per its by-laws, an Administrative Council has tobe elected. Previously, five such councils have been elected, each for aperiod of two years. For the sixth term from 2009 to 2011, new elections
were held on 8 April 2009. As a result, a new Administrative Council of
PASNT consisting of the following office bearers has been elected:
l President: Dr Muhammad Asif Khanl Senior Vice President: Mr Jamaluddinl Vice President: Mr Mukhtar Ali
l Secretary: Mr Tahir Nazirl Treasurer: Mr Shabbir Ahmad
For further information, contact Dr Muhammad Asif Khan,
President, Pakistan Society for Non-Destructive Testing (PASNT),Plot 234, Street 7, Industrial Area I-9/2, Islamabad. Tel: +92 51
9258538; Fax: +92 51 9258642; Email: ncndt@nayatel.pk

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Contact:
E Romero – informacion@aend.org
V Krstelj – vjera.krstelj@fsb.hr

Regional Report
EUROPE

10th International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia

T

he Slovenian NDT society celebrated its 50 years of existence
and active work by organising the jubilee 10th International
NDT Conference, entitled: ‘Application of contemporary
non-destructive testing in engineering’.
The conference was held in Ljubljana from 1-3 September
2009.
The conference
wasorganisedby the Presidentof the Slovenian
NDT
Society,
Professor
Janez
Grum, who gavetheintroductory
speech.
Special
guest
of
the
conference
wasthe President of the
EFNDT, Professor
Prof Janez Grum, President of the Slovenian
Vjera Krstelj, who
NDT Society and organiser of the conference
gave the welcome
during his opening speechspeech. On thisoccasion, she also
represented
thescope of EFNDT
activities. She took
the opportunity toinvite participants to
the 10th European
Conference
andExhibitionon
NDT in Moscow
in 2010. We also
had the pleasureofhosting
Dr
Janez Slak, Deputy
Director of the
Slovenian Research
Agency within the
Ministry of ScienceandEducation,
Assistant Professor
Janez
MarkoSlabe, Head of Special guest Prof Vjera Krstelj, President ofDivision for Higher EFNDT, delivering her welcome speech
Education, Scienceand Technology from the Public Agency for Technology of the
Republic of Slovenia and the Dean of the Faculty of MechanicalEngineering, University of Ljubljana, Professor Jožef Duhovnik,

Chairs at the opening ceremony (from left to right): Vice President of
the Slovenian NDT Society Dr Božidar Brudar, Prof Gerd Busse, Prof
Len Gelman and Dr Boro Djordjević

who all gave their invited speeches.
There were 60 papers presented at the conference, 55 of themat oral sessions and five at the poster session. We were proud
to host 60 participants from 17 countries coming from Europe,
America, Asia and Africa. There were six keynote lectures given as
introductory lectures to individual sessions:l New opportunities for NDT using non-linear interaction ofelastic waves with defects,
by I Solodov, D Döring and G Bussel Non-destructive test technology for the composite,
by B Djordjević
l The higher order spectra for condition monitoring/NDT in
non-stationary conditions,by L Gelman and I Petruninl Electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation: present andfuture,by R Grimbergl Current possibilities of AE method application in selectedareas of industrial practice,by P Mazall Lock-in interferometry: principle and applications in NDE,
by Ph Menner, H Gerhard and G BusseOn this occasion a conference book and CD proceedings were
issued. Details about the conference programme can be seen at
http://ndt-ljubljana@fs.uni-lj.si. All conference papers are alsoavailable at NDT.net. Some selected papers from the conference
will be published in special issues of the International Journal of
Materials and Microstructure (http://www.inderscience.com) andthe International Journal of Materials and Product Technology(http://www.inderscience.com).
Accompanying the programme of the conference was a guided
walking tour of Ljubljana and a visit to one of the world’s biggest
caves, the Postojna caves.

9th International Conference on
Vibration Measurements by Laser and Non-Contact Techniques
22-25 June 2010
Ancona, Italy
Contact: AIVELA, Italian Association of Laser Velocimetry and Non-invasive Diagnostics, c/o Department of Mechanics,
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy.
Tel: +39 071 220 4489; Fax: +39 071 220 4813; Email: aivela@univpm.it; Web: www.aivela.org

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European Forum for National Aerospace NDT BoardsT

he 6th meeting of the Forum for NANDTB was held at DGZfP,
Max-Planck-Str 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany, on 23 June 2009.
During the meeting, the following actions were assigned:l Develop a training syllabus covering Aerospace Product
Technology.
l Establish that each of the Forum members is implementing
specification ANDTBF/05 (Harmonisation of the Operations of
the Members of the Forum).
l Gather information concerning the nature of operations ofeach of the Boards (continuation of the survey initiated by thePortuguese Board).
l Elevate the profile of the Forum and its member Boards
through provision of information and short articles about thework of the Forum and its individual member’s Boards.

l Request that EASA consider formal recognition of prEN
4179:2008 as an industry standard acceptable for
implementation by ANDTB.
l Propose to the AIA-NAS project group that the NANDTB
Forum be consulted in the interpretation consultation process.
The dates and locations for the 7th and 8th meetings are
8 December 2009 in Basel, Switzerland, and 8 June 2010 in
Moscow during the 10th ECNDT. The first part of the meeting,from 14:00 to 15:30, will be a closed meeting; the second part,from 16:00 to 17:00, will be open to attendance by individuals
having an interest in the ANDTBF and its work. This latter partwill take the form of two presentations, followed by questions anddiscussion.

New President for the Italian Society for Non-Destructive Testing
Monitoring Diagnostics – AIPnD

T

he secretariat office of the AIPnD
has the honour and pleasure ofcommunicating that Mr Antonello
Giacinto Porco has been recently elected,
by the newly-appointed Board, Presidentof the Italian Society for Non-Destructive
Testing Monitoring Diagnostics.
Vice Presidents of the Society are
Mr Mario Papponetti (Genoa) and Mr
Filippo Latte Bovio (Milan), while Mr
Ezio Tuberosa has been reconfirmed as
Secretary General of the Society.

Mr Antonello Giacinto
Porco

The President may be contacted at: Ing Antonello Giacinto
Porco, University of Calabria, Dept of Structures – UNICAL, Via
Ponte Pietro Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata Di Rende (Cosenza), Italy.
Tel: +39 0984 466930; Fax: +39 0984 496909; Email: csaleph@
tin.itFurther information may be obtained from Mrs Elisabetta
Arisi, Secretariat of the AIPnD, AIPnD, Associazione Italiana
Prove non Distruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica, ItalianSociety for Non-Destructive Testing Monitoring Diagnostics,
Via A Foresti 5, I-25127 Brescia BS, Italy. Tel: +39 030 3739173;
Fax +39 030 3739176; Email: segreteria@aipnd.it; Web: www.
aipnd.it

11th International Conference on
Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM11)
5-9 June 2011
Lake Como, Italy

Call for Papers
The objectives of ICM11 are to foster research on the mechanical behaviour of materials,
to promote related international cooperation among scientists and engineers andto provide the means for public dissemination of the results from these efforts.

DEADLINES
Abstract submission: 30 September 2010
Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 December 2010
Submission of full paper: 28 February 2011
Notification of paper acceptance: 31 March 2011
Conference Secretariat: Mrs Licia Simonelli, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milan, Italy. Tel: +39 0223 998212; Fax: +39 0223 998202; Email: icm11@icm11.org

www.icm11.org
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Contact:
J Conte – abende@abende.org.br
W Holliday – wholliday@asnt.org

Regional Report
PAN-AMERICA

News from the American Society for NDTASNT 2009 Fall Conference & Quality Testing
Show – Destination Columbus – proved the place
to be in October
The ASNT Fall Conference & Quality Testing Show 2009,
Destination Columbus, was held 19-23 October 2009 in theSociety’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Inspection; Chemical and Petroleum; Modelling and Simulation;
and Composites.
The 2009 conference brought together the international
community of professionals who exchanged ideas to further the
profession.

Student poster session

ASNT Topical Conferences and Symposia 2010

The Quality Testing Show 2009 is officially opened

The Conference featured three concurrent tracks with 97 paper
presentations, four short courses and there were 120 exhibitors for
the Quality Testing Show.
Scheduled papers covered the variety of user industry
techniques and applications and brought attendees the very latest
developments and challenges in the NDT field.
The short courses included: a Master Class in the art of Phased
Array Data Analysis addressing Detection, Characterisation and
Finite Sizing of Welding Flaws; Measuring and Improving Inspection
Performance; Applied Thermography for Non-Destructive Testing;and Introduction to Failure Analysis.

There is still time to submit abstracts for these ASNT topicalconferences and symposia scheduled for 2010. Abstracts are being
accepted for:l The Fourth Japan – US Symposium, Emerging NDE
Capabilities for a Safer World
7-11 June 2010, Maui Prince Hotel, Maui, Hawaii, USAl Nondestructive Evaluation of Aerospace Materials andStructures II
24 & 25 May 2010, Crowne Plaza St Louis Airport, Missouri,
USA
l ASNT 19th Annual Research Symposium & Spring
Conference
22-26 March 2010, Williamsburg Marriott, Williamsburg,
Virginia, USAl NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges: Structural Materials
Technology (SMT) 201016-20 August 2010, New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott,
New York, USAl ASNT Fall Conference & Quality Testing Show 201015-19 November 2010, Houston Convention Center,
Houston, Texas, USA
Submission information and requirements for each of these
events is provided on the ASNT website: www.asnt.org

New publications

Conference attendees at one of the four short courses

Session topics included: Health Monitoring; Infrastructure
Inspection and Evaluation; Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection –Tutorial; Mentoring; Phased Array; Radiation Safety; Pipeline

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ASNT has recently released the following publications:l ASNT Study Guide: Industrial Radiography Radiation Safety;l Ultrasonic Testing, Personnel Training Publications, Instructor
and Student Packages;l Nondestructive Testing Handbook, Volume 8 Magnetic Particle
Testing, Third Edition (hardback and CD-ROM);l A Model Written Practice, 2006 Edition;
l NDT Personnel Training, Qualification and Certification –Audit Checklist – 2006; andl Interpreting SNT-TC-1A, Fourth Edition.
Find all of ASNT’s NDT publications in the 2010 catalogue and on
the ASNT website at ShopASNT.

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ASNT Officers for 2009 – 2010
The following individuals have been elected for 2009-2010:l Chairperson of the Board: Jocelyn A Langloisl President: Joel W Whitakerl Vice President: Ricky L Morganl Secretary/Treasurer: Robert J Potter
To see the full list of members of the Board of Directors for
2009-2010, visit www.asnt.org

Society membership continues growth spurt
ASNT ended October with additional growth in both individual
members and Corporate Partners. The Society now includes over
10,900 individual members and 496 Corporate Partner members.
The membership is active around the world, with 70 sections in
the United States and 15 located outside the United States. The
Society’s growth worldwide is striking, with 38% of the total
membership residing or working outside the United States in 99
countries.
During the Fall Conference, the ASNT Board of Directors
approved the charters for two sections, to be known as the Kuwait
Section and The North Carolina Student Section accordingly.

Mentoring Matters –ASNT E-Mentoring programme launched
ASNT launched an e-mentoring programme to encourage andsupport young people aged 18-30 interested in non-destructive
testing career paths. The programme matches ASNT member
volunteers with adult student members and young professionals.
Mentors have the opportunity to inspire mentees by sharing their
NDT career and industry experience, knowledge and advice. As aninternet programme, the mentor and mentee can reside anywherein the world. Matches are based on career type and industry(ies)of interest. More than 100 members volunteered as e-mentors forthe programme to date. A webinar was held on 6 October to givethe e-mentors programme guidelines, tips for successful mentoring
and to answer any questions. ASNT is still accepting mentor andmentees into the ongoing programme. Members interested ineither should visit the ASNT website or contact Ruth Dheel in theMembership Services Department at mentoring@asnt.org

ASNT Fall Conference &Quality Testing Show2010
15-19 November 2010
Houston Convention Centre
Houston, Texas, USA
Contact: ASNT, 1711 Arlingate Lane,
PO Box 28518, Columbus, OH 43228-0518, USA.
Tel: +1 614 274 6003; Fax: +1 614 274 6899;
Email: conferences@asnt.org;
Web: www.asnt.org

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5th Pan-American Conference on
Non-Destructive Testing
2-6 October 2011, Cancún, MexicoT

he Pan-American Non-Destructive Testing Committee andthe Instituto Mexicano de Ensayos no Destructivos AC(IMENDE) are pleased to organise the 5th Pan-American
Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (V COPAEND 2011),
which will be held 2-6 October 2011 in the city of Cancún,
Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The Pan-American Conference has a long and prolificbackground, starting in 1984 as the Congress for Latin America andthe Caribbean under the support of the ONU’s Regional Projectfor Latin America and the Caribbean. Later, in 1995, it grew toinclude Canada and the United States of America and then, withthe support of the International Committee for Non-Destructive
Testing (ICNDT), it became the now widely acknowledged PanAmerican Conference on NDT. Since 1995, seven international
conferences have been held.
The organisers of the 5th Pan-American Conference on NDT
are pleased to invite all experts, professionals, developers, businesspeople and students in the area of NDT or related specialties,
to participate with collaborations in any of the wide range ofapplications of NDT, in particular the following: Basic and appliedresearch; Design and development of instruments and systems fornon-destructive inspection; Testing and diagnostic applicationsin the field; Codes and standards; Materials characterisation;
Personnel training, education, qualification and certification;
Security, reliability and quality; Anti-terrorist protection systems;
Biomedical applications; and Inspection specialties.
Especially welcome are contributions related to issues of
security, environmental impact and oil.
Plenary Sessions will be held on the main topics of NDT.
Sessions will be addressed by distinguished personalities who
have contributed to NDT development. During five days, TechnicalSessions will give a whole scope of the status of NDT.
The Commercial Exhibit will dedicate a special area for researchand development institutes and for specialised firms, presenting
their best equipment, services and offers which will attract visitors
who wish to keep pace with the forefront in NDT.
The V COPAEND 2011 will focus on facilitating exchange
and linking among participants within a friendly and comfortableenvironment.
The official language will be Spanish. Works may also be
submitted in any of the area-predominant languages: English,
Portuguese or French. Simultaneous translation, Spanish-English
and English-Spanish, will be supplied for opening and closing
ceremonies and some of the sessions.
Members of many international NDT societies will attend thisconference and more than one hundred companies from all over
the world dedicated to the NDT field are expected to participate in
the exhibition running alongside the conference.
Cancún, one of the world’s most attractive tourist destinations, isto host the Pan-American Conference because it is simultaneously
a dynamic and attractive city specifically established with the
purpose of combining modern services and advanced infrastructurewith its cultural and tourist appeal.
“This 5th Pan-American Conference will put you in touch withthe forefront technology on NDT. It will be an excellent opportunity
to build scientific, technical and commercial relationships,” says
Alfonso R García Cueto, President, V COPAEND. “We are very
proud to host the V COPAEND and are looking forward to meeting
you there.”For further information, tel: +52 (55) 55 79 66 29, email: info@
copaend5.com or visit www.copaend5.com

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CALENDAR OF NDT EVENTS
Month

Date

Venue

March
2010

22-26

Williamsburg
USA

19th American Society for NDT Annual
Research Symposium and Spring
Conference

www.asnt.org
conferences@asnt.org

May
2010

24-25

St Louis
Missouri, USA

Non-Destructive Evaluation of Aerospace
Materials and Structures III

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

7-11

Moscow
Russia10th European Conference on NDT

spektr@co.ru
www.rsnttd.ru

7-11

Maui
Hawaii, USA

4th Japan-US Symposium on Emerging
NDE Capabilities for a Safer World

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

14-17

TorontoCanada3rd International CANDU In-Service
Inspection and NDT in Canada Conference

22-24

Stratford-uponAvon
UK

7th International Conference on Condition
Monitoring and Machinery Failure
Prevention Technologies

cm_mfpt@bindt.org
www.cm-mfpt.org

18-23

San DiegoUSA

37th Annual Review of Progress in
Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation(QNDE)

heidi@cnde.iastate.edu
www.cnde.iastste.edu/QNDE/QNDE.
html

27-30

QuébecCanadaQuantitative Infrared Thermography (QIRT)
Conference

quebec@gel.ulaval.ca
qirt2010.gel.ulaval.ca

16-20

New York
USA

NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges:
Structural Materials Technology (SMT)2010

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

29-3
Sep

DresdenGermany

European Conference on Fracture ECF18

ecf18@dvm-berlin.dewww.ecf18.de

14-16

Cardiff
Wales, UK

NDT 2010 Conference and Exhibition

karen.cambridge@bindt.org
www.bindt.org

29-1
Oct

BerlinGermany

8th International Conference on NDE in
Relation to Structural Integrity for Nuclear
and Pressurised Components

www.8thnde.com
sk@dgzfp.de

November
2010

15-19

HoustonTexas, USA

ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing
Show 2010conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

October2011

2-6

CancúnMexico5th Pan-American Conference on NonDestructive Testing

info@copaend5.com
www.copaend5.com

April
2012

18-20

DurbanSouth Africa

18th World Conference on NDT

saint@acenet.co.za
www.saint.org.za

June
2010

July
2010

August2010

September
2010

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Event

Contact

events@cinde.ca

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