CONTENTS
News.............................................. 2-4
Asia-Pacific Regional Group...............6
European Regional Group..................9
Pan-American Regional Group.........10
Calendar of Events............................12

The World Organisation for NDTVolume 8 Issue No 1

March 2009
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

What can you do to promote NDT in your country?

I

t is a pleasure to write this as the new Chairman of ICNDT, elected to serve you – the World NDT community– for four years from 2008 to 2012.
Our objective is to promote the science and practice of NDT globally, for the benefit of mankind.
We should never forget the importance of our work in NDT. NDT, including all the associated diagnostic
technologies, saves lives, protects the environment, and benefits the economy.
ICNDT is the international committee of NDT Societies, with approaching 50 members. The full committee
meets every two years. Thirty-one Societies were present at the meetings in Shanghai.
ICNDT is now established as a legal entity, a non-profit company registered in Vienna. So we can have abank account and with some funds can take on more activities. Donations are welcome!
All of the work of ICNDT is done by volunteers, supported by their own companies, and by national NDT Societies. I am personallygrateful for the support of my company, Doosan Babcock Energy Limited, and The British Institute of NDT.
ICNDT has had tremendous support over the last four years from:q CINDE – Secretariat
q BINDT – ICNDT Journalq DGZfP – Website
and previously from the Italian Society. I would like to acknowledge the work of Douglas Marshall, Chairman 2004-08, and Giuseppe
Nardoni, Chairman 2000-04.
I would like to stress the importance of the national NDT Societies working in local languages or the local environment, with members
from Student to Professor, from Level 1 to Managing Director, with companies which supply equipment and services, and companies which
are major users of NDT. I urge you to support your national societies. Please ask yourself “What can I do to promote NDT in my country?”and go out and do it.
The 17th World Conference in Shanghai was a great success. The Chinese Society was selected to organise the conference eight years
ago and planning began in earnest in 2004. The conference was the culmination of many man-years and lady-years of work. On behalfof ICNDT, I congratulate the Chinese Society on the 17th WCNDT and thank them all for their tireless work, particularly to overcome thedifficulties, outside their control, of the necessary re-timing of the conference. Highlights for me were:q Shanghai – a vibrant, modern, high-tech city;
q The friendly Chinese people;
q The magnificent exhibition, with both a large international participation (124 companies) and an impressive number of Chinesecompanies (78);q More than 3,000 visitors on the first day alone;q The giant banquet;
q The wonderful Orchestral Concert – titled ‘The Sound of Testing’ – which brought a new meaning to Ultra-Sound – it was a wonderful
event.
Beijing had a highly successful Olympic Games. Shanghai has had a highly successful ‘Olympics of NDT’. As well as thanking theorganisers, I would like to thank the Sponsors and Exhibitors, whose financial contributions allow such events to happen. Thank you all.
In the next four years, ICNDT will:q Build on its new legal status;
q Establish a sustainable financial model;
q Produce a strategic action plan and develop new initiatives in Certification, Research, Education and promotion of NDT.

Dr J M Farley
Chairman, ICNDTThe Official Journal of the International Committee for Non-Destructive TestingICNDT Journal
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Future ICNDTCommittee Meetings
Executive
14 March 2009 10h00-16h00
St Louis, Missouri, USAPGP
8 November 2009
Yokohama, Japan2011
Cancun, Mexico

General Assembly
2010
Moscow, Russia
2012
Durban, South Africa

The next ICNDT Journal will be published in June 2009Material should be sent to Sharon Bond, e-mail: s.bond@cinde.ca by 30 April 2009

Brief report of a Workshop on Harmonisation of third-party
NDT Personnel Certification to ISO 9712 and aligned standards,
17th WCNDT, Shanghai – Monday 27 October 2008T

he workshop, which was led
by an international panel ofexperts, chaired by Dr Mike Farley
and attended by 37 representatives from
20 countries, was intended to collate
and deliver the NDT community’s
recommendations to Standards Committees
and Certification Bodies.
The agenda for the meeting, which
provoked a large number of questions
and passionate discussion, included thefollowing items:
1. What do industry, regulators and
NDT personnel need from third-party
certification schemes?
2. What are the key differences between
ISO 9712 and CP 106, and ISO 9712
and EN 473? Why do they exist? Arethey really important?
3. How can these differences be resolved?
By choosing a preferred alternative,by compromise, or by allowing
options?
4. Recommendations.
Under the last item, the following wereagreed:It was noted that the out-of-sequence
review of the two third-party standards
leads them to differ. ISO 9712 is due
for review again next year, and ISO and2

The Workshop on Harmonisation of
third-party NDT Personnel Certification
to ISO 9712 and aligned standards wasattended by 37 representatives from
20 countries

The panel of experts leading the Workshop
included (left to right) Ron Nisbet, Dave
Barnett, John Thompson and Mike Farley

CEN should consider a joint review
process.
It was also noted that TC 135, in response
to a TC 138 proposal, is discussing thepossibility of a joint WG and will ask for avote of TC 135 members on the formationof such a WG. A show of hands confirmed
33 representatives present in support of this
proposal.
A Canadian delegate stated that there
are no irreconcilable differences between
TC 135/TC 138 – ISO 9712/EN 473. Hesuggested the submission of EN 473 to
TC 135 as a draft for the next ISO 9712
(4th edition).
It was proposed to submit thesecomments and proposals to TC 135 andTC 138 chairman, recognising thatthe reason for the continued existence of
EN 473 is related to regulations that
embody it as a harmonised standard.
The workshop chairman concluded witha summary of the views to be expressedto the chairs of 135/138, and agreed
to discuss within ICNDT the proposal
for appointment of neutral chairman of
the WG proposed for harmonisation of
ISO 9712 with EN 473.
For further background and details, visit
www.icndt.org

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17th WCNDT REPORTThe 17th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing,
Shanghai, China, October 2008

H

aving been forced to re-schedule the 17th World
Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (17th WCNDT)from its originally planned dates in August until theend of October, due to the devastating effects resulting from theearthquake in Sichuan Province, the Chinese Society for NDT did
a wonderful job and the conference was a huge success.
Following the earthquake in Sichuan, which caused severe
disruption to transport, telecommunication and infrastructure
in not just the area around the epicentre but much wider afield,
the Chinese government directed that all international
conferences and major events within a certain time period of the
Olympic Games should be re-scheduled to other suitable dates.
The mandate would have made the process of acquiring visas
within that time frame extremely difficult. Hence, the organisingcommittee had no alternative but to put back the 17th WCNDT
until October.
A total of 764 delegates registered for the conference, including
530 from 50 different countries. Very few cancelled due to there-scheduling. There were 490 papers presented. More than 200 ofthese were on the subject of ultrasonic testing, 85 on eddy current
and 65 on radiography. The papers were presented by authors from
38 different countries with China topping the list with 176 papers.
Second was Russia with 46 followed by Germany (43) and theUK (30).
More than 200 companies took part in the exhibition, including
124 from outside China. The show was extremely busy, with morethan 3000 visitors attending on the first day alone.
In his opening address, Dr Rong S Geng, President of the 17th
WCNDT, extended his warmest gratitude to all participants andsaid in the circumstances how happy he was to see the strong
support from NDT colleagues around the world. “We are family,”
he said, and continued: “Non-destructive testing is undoubtedly
one of the most rapidly developing and progressive professionsin China, and also is one of the most demanding markets andcommercial opportunities… our profession is so important forevery person and in every sector of daily life as it relates to humanlife and public safety. It is due to our NDT efforts that the world
becomes safer and many lives are saved in every day.
“It is because of the open door policy and free market oriented
economy that China has achieved fast growing economy for
decades,” said Dr Geng. “It is also due to that policy that the NDTin China is developing rapidly and is also leaving huge space for
future development. We fully understand that an international
conference on non-destructive testing can bring us together andgive us an opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones.
Most importantly, the conference provides a good chance for us
to exchange ideas that help all of us to do our job better in the
future and to improve relations between different NDT societies
and communities.”

Dignatories at the Opening Ceremony

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Shanghai’s Pudong skyline. Since the World Conference, construction
has commenced on China’s tallest building, the 632 m Shanghai
Tower, due for completion in 2014

As well as statements from the 17th World Conference
Chairman Dr Shen Jianzhong, Chairman of the Organising
Committee Professor Cai Anding and Chairman of the TechnicalCommittee Dr Shen Gongtian, the Opening Ceremony featured awelcome from ICNDT Chairman Mr Doug Marshall, several giftpresentations from sister societies and organisations and a brieftalk by Professor Riccardo Giacconi, winner of the Nobel Prize
for Physics 2002.
The Opening Ceremony was followed by Keynote Addresses
by Douglas Marshall, Gongtian Shen and Dr Baldev Raj. The
conference
thensplit up into its
considerable
number of parallelsessions of technicalpresentations.
S e v e r a limportant meetings,
workshops
andother events were
held in conjunction
with the conference,
including meetings
of
the
ICNDT
Executive and Policy& General Purposes Then ICNDT Chairman Douglas J MarshallCommittees,
two presents a keynote at the opening ceremony

ICNDT General Assembly members (32nd meeting)3

17th WCNDT REPORTICNDT General Assemblies (the second of which resulted inGermany being awarded the 2016 World Conference), ISO meetings,
a Special Lecture Meeting of the Academia NDT International and aworkshop on certification.
Social events included a Welcome Reception/Dinner at the
Shanghai International Convention Centre, catering for morethan 1000 people at 100 tables, each one visited in person by
the Conference President and supporting group; and a wonderfulconcert, ‘The Sound of Testing’, by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra
at the Oriental Arts
Centre.
Theorchestra played aselection of Chinese
and international
pieces (including
Greensleeves) on
traditional Chinese
instrumentsinan evening thatmesmerisedc o n f e r e n c edelegates
into
Mr Gerhard Aufricht (right) receives therelaxation!
Pawlowski Award from Douglas MarshallAt the closing
ceremony on 28
October Dr RongGeng
reviewed
thesuccessful
conference
andthanked all for their
participation.
Dr
Mike Farley was
officially appointed
Chairman of ICNDTand presentations
were made by theorganisers of the 17th World Conference President Dr Rongnext
European S Geng was awarded the ICNDT Sokolov
Conferencein Award for his major contribution to NDTMoscow in 2010, researchtheAsia-Pacificconference being held in Yokohama, Japan in November this year
and the next World Conference to be held 16-20 April 2012 in
Durban, Republic of South Africa.
For more pictures visit www.icndt.org and click on ‘Photo
Gallery’.

ICNDT Awards
The following awards were presented
at the opening ceremony of the World
Conference in Shanghai.
Each award is in the form of a framed
certificate carrying the ICNDT logo andincludes the name of the award, thename(s) of the recipient(s) and the date.

PGP committee members in Shanghai

Pawlowski Award – for major
contribution to promotion of NDTinternationallyAward winners: Gerhard Aufricht(Austria) and Anthony Sonneveld(Australia).
Other nominees: Xu Yongchang (China).
Roentgen Award – for major
contribution to science and technology
of NDT
Award winner: Prof Vladimir L
Chakhlov (Russia).
Other nominees: CIVA, the NDT
simulation software (France), Drs V
Vengrinovich and V Artemjev (Belarus).
Havercroft Award – for major
contribution to NDT education, training
and certification
Award winner: Zemfira S Nikiforova,
Svetlana A Popoudina, Svetlana I
Zinovjeva, Vera V Levkovich (Belarus).
Other nominees: Dr Biryukova
Nadezhda Petrovna (Russia).
Sokolov Award – for major contribution
to NDT researchAward winner: Rong S Geng (China).
Other nominees: Gorkunov Eduard
Stepanovich (Russia).
Young Achiever Award – forachievement of young people in NDTAward winner: Audrey Evgenievich
Bazulin4

Dr Mike Farley presents a plaque to Dr Shen
Jianzhong on behalf of EFNDTGiuseppe Nardoni enthuses about the new
ICNDT Guidelines and Recommendations
for Qualification and Certification of NDTPersonnel

Doug
Marshallpresents
Honorary
Membership plaques to Dr Rainer Link
(centre) and Tony Sonneveld (right)

New ICNDT Officers
Ratified by the 33rd General Assembly ofInternational Committee for NDT,
27 October 2008, Shanghai, China.
Chairman: M J Farley
General Secretary: D Barnett
World Conference President:
M Johannes
Secretariat:
The British Institute of NDTSociety to hold fund:
The Austrian Society for NDTMembers appointed to PGP:
M Purschke, W Holliday

Regional Representatives(nominated by Regional Groups):
V Krstelj, E Romero (Europe)
W Holliday, J Conte (Pan American)
L Dick, M Ooka (Asia Pacific)
F Herelli, K Danso (Africa)
Treasurer: G Aufricht
Trustee of ICNDT funds: M Purschke
Chairman of the Membership WG:
J Conte (prop DM)
Congratulations also to two new
Honorary Members of ICNDT:R Link and T Sonneveld

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18th WCNDT

18th World Conference on
Non-Destructive Testing

16-20 April 2012
DurbanRepublic of South Africa

For further information contact:
South African Institute for Non-Destructive Testing,
PO Box 76068, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040, Republic of South Africa.
Tel: +27 11 719-5717; Tel (messages): +27 12 807-3829; Fax: +27 12 8073829; Email: saint@acenet.co.za; Web: http://www.saint.org.za

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Contact:
L Dick – ljdick@ndt.co.nz
M Ooka – nori.ooka@rio.odn.ne.jp

Regional Report
ASIA-PACIFIC

News from the Malaysian Society for NDT (MSNT)
Malaysian International NDT Conference andExhibition 09 (MINDTCE 09)
With six more months to go, the organising committee for
MINDTCE 09 begins to receive a lot of enquiries from local aswell as international members of NDT communities. The event
this time is rather unique. For the first time ever, the Society hasorganised the conference of this kind together with our biggest oil
producer PETRONAS.
This clearly shows that PETRONAS has a special interest
to advance NDT technology. PETRONAS signals to all of us,
members of Malaysian Society for NDT, that this technology is so
important to our industry. If PETRONAS is willing to support us,
then it is the responsibility of all of us MSNT members to prove to
our partner that we truly appreciate this support. Let us mark thisdate, 20th-21st July 2009, at the Legend Hotel Kuala Lumpur. A
registration form will be included in our second announcementthat will be released soon.

that experts in areas of process tomography and non-destructive
testing would be invited to Saudi to assist him in modernisingfacilities in his department.

Meeting on preparation to accreditation of NCB
A special meeting to discuss the plan for accreditation of the
National Certification Body for NDT has been organised by the
Department of Skill Development (DSD), Ministry of Human
Resources on 12th December 2008.
The meeting was held in Putrajaya and attended byrepresentatives from the Malaysian Society for NDT, Malaysia
Nuclear Agency, SIRIM and PETRONAS.

Dr Jaafar Abdullah (second from left) presented the computed
tomography system to the Director General of Nuclear Malaysia, ProfAl Johani and Dr Sehata

Malaysian expert in Sudan
The Government of Sudan through the Sudanese Atomic Energy
Commission (SAEC) invited the MSNT Malaysian Society for
Non-Destructive Testing President to deliver a series of lecturesand demonstrations during the National Training Course on NDTin Civil Engineering. The course took place on 22nd to 26th
December 2008 at SAEC and was attended by 29 participants fromconstruction industries and universities. Before his departure backto Malaysia, the MSNT President was also met by the Presidentof Sudanese Non-destructive Testing Society. In this short meeting
it was agreed that a formal agreement between Malaysian and
Sudanese Societies for NDT is necessary and should be establishedas soon as possible for the benefit of NDT communities of bothcountries.

Meeting on accreditation, from left: representative from PETRONAS,
MSNT Vice President, MSNT President, Director of Certification
DSD

During this meeting, Mrs Salbiah of DSD presented a shortbriefing on the result of her IAEA sponsored visit to the AustralianInstitute for NDT under the supervision of Mr David Barnett. This
meeting also agreed that two special workshops on the subjectof ISO 17024 will be organised by DSD where, in one of them,an international expert will be invited to give his guidance andopinion on steps to be taken towards accreditation to 17024.

Visit by Professor from King Abdul Aziz
University, Saudi Arabia
Two visitors from the Department of Nuclear Engineering, King
Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prof Al Johani and
Dr Sehata have visited Nuclear Malaysia from 13-16 December
2008. The main objective of their presence here was to visit thefirst made in Malaysia Computed Tomography facility which wasjust built and completed by a group of scientists and engineers in
Nuclear Malaysia. In addition to this, both visitors have also visited
Digital Radiography and other facilities in Nuclear Malaysia. At theend of their visit, both of them expressed their appreciation on theachievement made by local researchers. Prof Al Johani indicated6

Participants attending the National Training Course on NDT for Civil
Engineering, Khartoum, Sudan

Malaysian Society for Non Destructive Testing (MSNT),
Industrial Technology Division (BTI), Malaysian Nuclear Agency(Nuclear Malaysia), Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor.
Tel: 03-89250510; Fax: 03-89250907; Email: nassir@
nuclearmalaysia.gov.my

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Report from Asian Regional ALARA Network (ARAN)T

he National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba City
Japan, just to the north of Tokyo, hosted the First Workshopof the Asian Regional ALARA Network (ARAN). ALARA
being the acronym for the radiation protection concept of ‘as low
as reasonably achievable’. The workshop was entitled ‘Improving
Radiation Protection in Industrial Radiography’, and was heldon 5-7 November 2008. Sponsored by the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), it resulted from an earlier steering groupmeeting in Korea where it was agreed to establish a regional
co-operative ALARA network under an IAEA/RCA occupationalradiation protection project, similar to ones successfully operated
by European and more recently Eastern European countries. A
report of the Korean meeting and other ARAN information can befound at http://kisoe.kins.re.kr/ . The project aims to improve thestandard of radiation protection through ARAN initiatives which
are to:1. Establish a network
2. Make it self-supporting
3. Foster mutual understanding among members
4. Share radiation protection information
As an organisation of the United Nations, the IAEA is active ina wide range of occupational radiation protection activities. It has
published a series of safety standards and guideline documents forthe transport, handling and application of radiation practices. The
IAEA promotes the adoption of these standards by member states tobring a uniformity to the minimum requirements for occupationalradiation protection.
ARAN is interested in all fields of radiation protection, but at
this, its inaugural workshop, it selected industrial radiography as anapplication where improvement to radiation safety had significant
potential, and how such a network could achieve ALARA throughpractical and achievable means. The Australasian Radiation
Protection Society sponsored an Australian representative withradiation protection and industrial radiography expertise to give akeynote presentation at this meeting. Also from Australia was David
Woods from ANSTO who is the past project chairman of ARAN,
and Keith Baldry the Director of Radiation Protection in South
Australia, who is Australia’s official representative on ARAN.
Japan was a most suitable location for this meeting. As an
active user of radioactive materials, it has about fifty nuclear
power plants throughout the country, and an industrial radiographyindustry of over one hundred NDT companies operating nine
hundred radiation devices. The Asian region itself is believed tohave between 21,000 to 25,000 workers involved in industrial
radiography. It is therefore relevant that Mr Kazuo Sakai from Japan
held the chairmanship of ARAN, with Mr Won-Chul Choi from
Korea as his deputy.
The meeting format allowed for each represented country togive a short presentation on aspects of their radiation protection
programmes, experience of radiation accidents, radiation protection
regulatory structure, training and initiatives. Additionally, the IAEA
gave reports of its radiation protection activities, lost or ‘orphan’radioactive sources, radiation accidents, and the categorisationof radioactive sources. It was clear that each country had similar
aspirations to improve occupational radiation protection generally,
and to avoid those accidents and incidents which could lead toexcessive acute radiation exposure. While almost none of theparticipants were engaged in NDT, everyone involved in theworkshop knew exactly what NDT was.
Radiation safety training for industrial radiographers was oneof the most significant issues for most participants. Causes of past
accidents and incidents in their countries could often be traceablein part or in total to the absence or inadequacy of radiation safety
training. The ongoing theft of source containers, in the belief that

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All thirty-one participants of the ARAN meeting plus the director of
the Japanese National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Yoshiharu
Yonekura. David Woods is at the right end of the front row and Dr
Sakai at the leftthey are harmless and have resale or scrap value, indicates thatany radiation safety training should be extended to include anawareness of the nature and use of radioactive sources to otheraffected workers outside the industrial radiographers. This itself
was a challenging objective.
The afternoons were devoted to separate working groups.
Each of four WGs was given a range of related topics to explore
by bringing the collective experience and ideas of the members
to brainstorm problem solving initiatives. The subjects for thesegroups were:
1. Exposure trends – ALARA – individual monitoring.
2. Incidents and accidents reported in industrial radiography –how to mitigate.
3. Regulatory inspections and enforcements in industrial
radiography.
4. Training in industrial radiography.
The workshop discussions were open and constructive. Eachgroup reached consensual conclusions aiming at the harmonisationof good practices, the reduction of accidents and incidents andthe optimisation of occupational exposures in normal operations.
There is a need to improve the safety culture in the industrial
radiography sector through harmonising training at the regionaland national level while maintaining local relevance, organisingdialogue between the stakeholders, improving inspections andfavouring feedback exchanges. Some of the recommendations
which came from working groups were:a. Improve the safety culture in the NDT industry through the
preparation and adoption by the national regulator, in close
relationship with the national NDT associations or societies,
and when possible the major clients, codes of conduct for the
NDT companies and for the clients. This could be undertaken
as part of a broader initiative to improve the understanding
between regulators and the NDT industry through more
frequent dialogue.
b. The IAEA could develop safety training and courses forindustrial radiographers to complete the package from
Quality Engineer and Radiation Protection Officer to qualified
industrial radiography operator.
c. Improve the consistency and efficiency of inspections andcontrols through a local programme of industrial radiographysite inspections.
d. ARAN could set up a method for collecting and sharing
feedback, in a standard format, on incidents, accidents andnear misses from the participating countries.
e. The servicing and maintenance of radiography equipment
should only be undertaken by those authorised by theRegulatory Body and trained by the manufacturer.

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There may be an opportunity for the AINDT to contributeto these and other initiatives to enhance industrial radiography
safety in Australia. The obstacles arising from variations between
the requirements of the States are being progressively addressed
through the national Radiation Health Committee. This committee isworking towards a national framework for radiation protection in all
its applications. A national organisation such as the AINDT would
have a valuable role to play in facilitating the industrial radiography
component of this work. A comprehensive report of the meetingand its outcomes is being finalised and will be shown on the Korean
Institute of Nuclear Safety website http://kisoe.kins.re.kr/

APCNDT 2009 Call for Short Abstract
Those wishing to present papers at the 13th Asia-Pacific Conference
on NDT should submit a short abstract to the conference website
by 30 April 2009. The conference committee will notify acceptanceof the abstract by 1 July 2009, by email. Accepted applicants must
submit an extended abstract to the conference website between
1 July and 31 August 2009.
Short and extended abstracts must be submitted online at  
http://www.apcndt2009.com
All extended abstracts will be published in the conference
handbook without peer review. All delegates will receive a copyof the handbook.
The 13th Asia-Pacific Conferenceon Non-Destructive Testing8 – 13 November, 2009
Yokohama, Japan
Web: http://www.apcndt2009.com
Email: apcndt2009@jsndi.or.jp

9th International Conference & Exhibition on
Operating Pressure Equipment
26-28 August 2009
Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.
Incorporates the biennial conference of
the Australian Institute for NDT.
Contact: Materials Australia, Suite 205, 21 Bedford Street, North
Melbourne, Victoria 3051, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9326 7266;
Fax: +61 2 9326 7272; E-mail: events@materialsaustralia.com.au;
web: www.materialsaustralia.com/OPE09

The 2nd workshop on NDT with Asia-Pacific societies was heldfrom 13 to 15 November 2008 with an aim of cooperation among
Asia-Pacific societies. There were 17 participants from 13 societies
attending this workshop, and the workshop of attendees weredifferent from the first workshop.

Day 1, 2. Presentations from Participating Societies
The President of the JSNDI, Dr Masumi Saka, had an opening
address, and the host chairman, Dr Norikazu Ooka, chaired theworkshop.
Dr Yoshikazu Yokono had a presentation on JSNDI activities(qualification and certification, academic, education andstandardisation). After the introduction of JSNDI, each representative
had a twenty-minute presentation to introduce activities of present
NDT technologies.
During the presentations, the participants mainly discussed theconnection between ISO 9712 and qualification and certification
systems being implemented in each society.

The 2nd Workshop on NDT for enhancement ofcooperation under the programme for the future
plan in JSNDI, November 2008, Tokyo, JapanThe Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection (JSNDI) has
been planning contributions to Asia-Pacific societies for promoting
NDT technologies from the twenty-first century downward. IAEA
had been promoting NDT industrial application among the East
Asian countries in the last century.
The future planning committee in JSNDI took up this matter,and planned to hold a workshop as one of its most important
subjects for the purpose.
JSNDI held the first workshop on NDT for enhancementof cooperation with Asia-Pacific societies for three days at the
JSNDI Office in Tokyo from 5 to 7 November 2007. A numberof resolutions were adopted at the end of this workshop. The
workshop was finished with great mutual understanding among
the participating societies for the first time trial.

Picture of all participants at JSNDI meeting room B

8Picture of Stress Measurement training course

Day 3. Discussions on the Workshop
The workshop participants visited the National Museum of
Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in the morning.
The workshop participants moved to the JSNDI Mizue Center,and toured its facilities, and observed JSNDI’s Ultrasonic training
course and Stress Measurement training course before the meeting.
At the meeting, there were many issues discussed on the matterof training and certification of ISO 9712. All societies agreed tocontinue this workshop in the future, and finished agreeing todiscuss this matter at APCNDT 2009.
At the end of the workshop, it was agreed that this workshop
carried on to the next stage. The workshop was finished with great
mutual understanding among the participating societies.
The Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection (JSNDI),
MBR99 Building, 67, Kanda-sakumagashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo,
101-0026 Japan. Tel: +81-3-5821-5105; Fax: +81-3-3863-6524;
Email: acd@jsndi.or.jp

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

Regional Report
EUROPEICNDT Journal Vol 8 No 1 March 20099

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

Regional Report
PAN-AMERICACharleston, South Carolina, USA, hosted the successful
ASNT 2008 Fall Conference & Quality Testing ShowT

he annual fall conference combined innovative technology
and applications with knowledgeable people. HistoricCharleston, South Carolina, was host to the 2008 ASNT
Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show, which brought NDT
professionals from around the world together in an energetic andvibrant conference. Held 10-14 November at the Charleston Area
Convention Center Complex, the conference had 1,578 registeredparticipants. The professional programme was robust, with 108
papers being presented in 27 sessions. Papers represented awide variety of NDT techniques and applications, and broughtparticipants up to date on the very latest in the NDT field. The
Quality Testing Show was a tremendous success, with 143
exhibitors participating – even more than in Las Vegas the year
before. Short courses, public lectures and committee meetings
rounded out the week.
The 2009 Quality Testing Show featured 143 exhibitors showcasing
the latest NDT products

Incoming ASNT President Jocelyn Langlois and Chair Victor
Hernandez cut the ribbon at the 2009 Quality Testing Show’s opening
ceremony

Keynote sessions were well attended

A few highlights of the conference included Paul Mardikian’sdelivery of the Plenary Address on the ongoing restoration work
being conducted on the recovered Confederate submarine H.L.
Hunley. Mardikian is the head conservator of the Hunley Project,and many attendees of the conference found time during the week
to pay a visit to the lab at which the Hunley is being studied.
Another highlight was a panel discussion held on Guided Wave
Applications, featuring panelists David Alleyne, Glenn Light andJohn Nyholt. Ron Nisbet acted as moderator and Danny Keck as
the ‘roving reporter’. Three short courses took place during the
week: ‘Applied Signal and Image Processing and Analysis for
Nondestructive Evaluation’, taught by Don Roth, ‘PdM Awareness’,
offered by Ken Starry and ‘Thermography as a Nondestructive
Testing Tool’, by Mohammed Omar.

The induction of the 2008 Class of ASNT Fellows was part of the
ASNT Annual Awards Programme: (left to right) Ronald Brosio, David
Morgan, Kirsten Lipetzky, David Spooner, ASNT Past President Sharon
Vukelich and Paul Zayicek

Society accepting abstracts for 2009 Fall
Conference & Quality Testing Show – Deadline is
17 Aprilon the ASNT web site www.asnt.org. From the homepage click on the‘Meetings and Events’ link and select the Fall Conference.

There is opportunity to submit abstracts for consideration for the
ASNT Fall Conference & Quality Testing Show 2009. The 2009conference, Destination Columbus, is scheduled for 19 - 23 Octoberin ASNT’s hometown, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Desired topics include
Health Monitoring, Infrastructure, Laser Methods, Phased Array,
Radiation Safety, Homeland Security, Composites, and Modelling and
Simulation. Submission information and requirements are provided

ASNT membership now includes over 10,500 individual members and475 corporate partners – the largest number of corporate partners in theSociety’s history. The membership is active around the world, with 70
domestic sections and 14 located outside the United States. The Society’s
growth worldwide is striking, with 35% of the total membership residing
outside the United States. The Society had a very successful year, andthanks its volunteer members for making it possible.

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ASNT membership continues to grow

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PAN-AMERICA
Elijah Wilson (Bill) Huddleston
Born in Selurea, Alabama on 30 June
1927
Departed on 10 December 2008
Elijah Wilson (Bill) Huddleston of San
Leandro, CA, passed away on 10 December
2008 in Vancouver, WA, after a long battlewith cancer.
He was born in Selurea, Alabama on 30
June 1927 to Elijah W and Ruth Huddleston.
He was the 4th of 5 children who all have preceded him in death.
He spent most of his youth in Birmingham, AL.
He joined the Merchant Marines at age 17, which was the
beginning of his love of boating and travel. Bill spent the majorityof his working career in the field of non-destructive testing and waswell known throughout the NDT community, both nationally andinternationally.
He was very active serving as an officer in several technicalA

organisations including CINDE, ASNT and NDTMA, where he wasgiven a lifetime membership. ASNT recently established an awardin his name to be given to members for outstanding service in the
NDT field. Bill was well known and liked in the NDT industry.
Bill held a special place in the Canadian Institute for NDE as he
was a strong supporter, mentor and contributor to the NDT field in
Canada. The Canadian NDT community – and indeed the whole
NDT community throughout the world – will miss him dearly.
Bill will be greatly missed by many.

ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show
19-23 October 2009
Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Contact: ASNT, 1711 Arlingate Lane, PO Box 28518,
Columbus, OH 43228-0518, USA.
Tel: +1 614 274 6003; Fax: +1 614 274 6899;
E-mail: conferences@asnt.org; web: www.asnt.org

Argentina assigned to coordinate IAEA Projectrgentina, through the National Atomic Energy Commission(CNEA), will be coordinating a project for the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that tends to develop,
harmonise and consolidate Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
standards in Latin America and the Caribbean region. 14 countries
have joined the project to date.
The project (ARCAL-RLA/8/044) consists of developing aqualification and certification system based on ISO 9712 and 17024
standards, such as those implemented by Brazil and Argentina
in the region, and therefore will be an excellent opportunity forcooperating with other countries in the area.
The main characteristics and scope are the following:
Title: Establishing Regional Harmonization in the Qualification
and Certification of Personnel and in the Infrastructure Used in the
Non-Destructive Testing of Systems, Structures and Components(ARCAL CXVII)Classification: New
Project Number: RLA8044
Has regional agreement? Yes
Justification:
The increasing demand for energy and potable water will be twoof the key issues in the future. Nuclear energy will play a very
important role in both fields and a lot of countries are considering
the use of this form of energy to satisfy their needs. Both of theabove demands will require the safe and reliable managementof nuclear energy (nuclear power plants, research reactors andother facilities) during their entire life (construction, pre-service
and in-service). This management will rely on well-establishednon-destructive testing (NDT) techniques. This in turn will call for
personnel certified according to ISO 9712 by an accredited bodyaccording to ISO 17024. Work under these standards requires
NDT Level 3 specialists in each of the participating countries. The
following steps need to be taken in this regard: (i) implementationof the technical and administrative actions to establish thestandards in each country; (ii) establishment of a set of questions
related with the different techniques in the national committees
in the participating countries; (iii) development or procurementof examination specimens for training and qualification in theselected techniques by each participating country; (iv) preparationof a set of certified sheets for examination test specimens for eachtechnique selected by the different countries, according to ISO
9712; (v) auditing of the system implemented in each country;(vi) organisation of courses to train and certify personnel in NDTtechniques mostly used in the nuclear field (Levels 1, 2 and 3). In
the present situation few countries have any accredited personnel

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certification system and those that exist are mainly in countries
with nuclear power plants (NPPs). The situation in other countries
varies from little activity to the development of different qualifying
and certifying standards. One way to prepare those countries tomanage the future needs will be training, qualifying and certifying
young generations in NDT techniques, including industrial
radiography satisfying the requirements of ISO-9712 and 17024
and based on IAEA TECDOC 628/REV.1 2002. The system will
operate on the principle of third party certification, which meansthat the specialist training candidates cannot examine them. An
independent institution will therefore be needed for certification.
The present project will prepare countries for the above mentioned
scenario, enabling them to establish an accredited training andcertification system and to harmonise the qualification andcertification of personnel and the infrastructure used in the nondestructive testing of systems, structures and components at theregional level.

End Users/Beneficiaries:
The end users of NDT techniques will be NPPs, research reactors,
radioisotope facilities, utilities, the gas and petroleum industry,
public infrastructure (highways, bridges, etc), transportation
infrastructure (airports, planes, railways, etc), power generation,
the steel industry and others. The beneficiaries will be the entire
population.

Project Strategy/Implementation Arrangements:
The project will be implemented on the basis of regional
infrastructure (people, equipment, facilities, institutions andcompanies). Each country will organise a local support group(LSG) preferably an NDT association or an institution whose NDTtechniques meet ISO standards. The Agency support will focus
on guiding, training and supervising the implementation of thestandards to enable the national certifying body (NCB) in eachcountry to be accredited according to ISO 17024.

Sustainability:
The project implementation will be based on local needs and an
LSG (local industries, companies and government institutions),
thereby guaranteeing the basic infrastructure to give sustainability
to the whole NDT activity. Also the support from countries of the
ARCAL region where the standards are already in place and NDT
associations from other regions with experience in harmonisation
based on ISO 9712 in their region will guarantee the sustainabilityof the activity.

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CALENDAR OF NDT EVENTS
Month

Date

Venue

March
2009

18-20

Moscow
Russia8th International Exhibition and
Conference for NDT and Technical
Diagnostics

artemiev@spectr.ru

23-25

DublinIreland

Sixth International Conference on
Condition Monitoring and Machinery
Failure Prevention Technologies,
CM 2009 / MFPT 2009

karen.cambridge@bindt.org
www.cm2009-mfpt2009.org

24-26

BerlinGermany

4th European-American Workshop on
Reliability of NDE

tagungen@dgzfp.de
www.nde-reliability.de

30-3
July

NantesFrance7th International Symposium on NonDestructive Testing in Civil Engineering
NDTCE ‘09

ndtce2009@lcpc.fr
http://heberge.lcpc.fr/ndtce09/

20-21

Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Malaysia International NDT Conference
and Exhibition ‘09 MINDTCE ‘09

najibah@petronas.com.my

26-31

Kingston
Rhode Island
USA

36th Annual Review of Progress in
Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation(QNDE)

skallsen@cnde.iastste.edu
www.cnde.iastate.edu/QNDE/qnde.html

26-28

Gold Coast
Australia

International Conference on Operating
Pressure Equipment

events@materialsaustralia.com.au
www.materialsaustralia.com.au/OPE09

1-3

Ljubljana
Slovenia

10th International Conference –‘Application of contemporary NDT in
Engineering’

ndt-ljubljana@fs.uni-lj.si
www.fs.uni-lj.si/latem/NDT%202009/
NDT-V1.htm

14-19

Essen
Germany

3rd Quality Testing International Exhibition
2009

15-17

Blackpool
UK

Materials Testing 2009 and NDT 2009
Conference

June
2009

July
2009

August2009

September
2009

12-14
October
2009

Event

Prague5th International Workshop: NDT in
Czech Republic ProgressContact

info@messe-essen.dewww.messe-essen.dekaren.cambridge@bindt.org
www.materialstesting.org
www.bindt.org
cndt@cndt.cz
www.cndt.cz

19-23

Columbus
Ohio, USA

ASNT Fall Conference and Quality TestingShow

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

November
2009

8-13

YokohamaJapan

13th Asia-Pacific Conference on
Non-Destructive Testing 2009

apcndt2009@jsndi.or.jp
www.apcndt2009.com

June
2010

7-11

Moscow
Russia10th European Conference on NDT

April
2012

18-20

DurbanSouth Africa

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18th World Conference on NDT

spektr@co.ru
www.rsnttd.ru
saint@acenet.co.za
www.saint.org.za

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