CONTENTS
News.............................................. 1-4
Africa Regional Group........................5
Asia-Pacific Regional Group...............6
European Regional Group..................7
Pan-American Regional Group.........10
Training and Certification in Brazil...11
Calendar of Events............................12

The World Organisation for NDTVolume 7 Issue No 3
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

The key element for true harmonisationNow that a year has passed since being elected as your Chairman
and CINDE as the Secretariat, I must take some time to reflect onwhat has changed in our organisation over this period of time.
We have had many good things transpire over this period which havebeen accomplished through dialogue, cooperation, and working closelywith our Executive and Policy and General Purpose Committee.
The Executive has met on two occasions and the Policy and General Purpose
Committee once over the last year, however, to say that is the only communication would
be an understatement. The members have worked diligently to meet the mandate set atthe 16th WCNDT in Montreal, to have the ICNDT become a legal entity at the next full
assembly meeting of ICNDT during the 9th EFNDT Conference in Berlin. The Terms ofReference and the Operating Procedures have been re-drafted to meet the demands ofthe legalisation and the Membership Committee has been working to update and change
membership format for legalisation.
As you can see, the format of the ICNDT Journal has changed considerably and thework efforts by the Journal Committee should not go unnoticed as we continue to elevatethe professionalism of the International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing. Very
shortly you will see the changes to our new website and ease of obtaining non-destructive
testing information and documentation of our organisation.
The next item of interest to all of us is the approval of the revised ISO Standard,
ISO 9712:2005. The revised standard has many changes, some radical and some minor.
However, the changes must be addressed and implemented if we are to realise world
harmonisation in non-destructive testing certification. One of the major changes I see is
not necessarily with regards to technical but to implementation. The implementation of
the standard has had a drastic facelift with respect to the governing body. The Certification
Body had more control in the overall implementation of ISO 9712:2005.
The recently approved documents ISO 17024 - General Requirements for Bodies
Operating Certification of Persons, ISO/TR 25108 - Guidelines for NDT Training
Organizations, ISO 20807:2004 - NDT Qualifications for Limited Certification and ISO/TR 25107 - Guidelines for NDT Training Syllabuses, should make the harmonisation of
non-destructive testing much easier. The ISO TC 135 Committee for Nondestructive
Testing with its subcommittees and working groups will further enhance the task ofharmonisation.
However, there is one key element missing or overlooked to accomplish a truly
harmonised standard in the field of non-destructive testing. The ‘LEVEL of DIFFICULTY’ isthe missing element to accomplish uniformity. The difficulty must apply to the theoreticaland practical examination. ISO TC 135, SC 7 has a working group, WG 8, that addresses
test specimens but what about the difficulty in the questions?
As the ICNDT Chairman, I have charged myself to investigate this missing element andrequest that the ISO Committee for Nondestructive Testing establish a working group to
develop a question bank with references and level of difficulty applied for all certification
bodies to have access. True harmonisation will only take place when we can state thatregardless of where the examination took place, the level of difficulty was consistent.
The task of accrediting certifying bodies should be a primary function of theInternational Committee for Non-Destructive Testing to ensure true harmonisation.
Doug Marshall

March 2006

Message from the
Chinese Society for
Non-Destructive TestingT

he 17th World Conference on NonDestructive Testing will be held
26-30 August 2008 in Shanghai,
China, just following the Olympic Games
from 8-24 August in Beijing.
The venue of the big event is selected
at the centre of the city, Shanghai
Exhibition Center, which is a group of
beautiful Russian-style buildings. All theactivities of the conference and exhibition
will be carried out at the centre. The
opening and closing ceremonies will
be held at the centre’s Friendship Hall,
which can accommodate about 1000
people. Technical session rooms are at thecentre’s Eastern Hall No 2, which has morethan 20 rooms available as well as a posterwall.
The Exhibition will be in the ‘Central
Hall’. This is the main hall of the Shanghai
Exhibition Center, a grand, palatial piece ofarchitecture having an inside area of about
8000 square metres. It is convenient for thedelegates to attend the conference while
visiting the exhibition. As the Shanghai
Exhibition Center is located at the centre of
the city, several hotels, restaurants, shops
and department stores are in the vicinity.
Communications are also excellent.
From the 16th WCNDT, we havelearned a very important experience
concerning everything the organiser did
to provide convenience to the delegates.
We welcome sincerely all NDT personnel
from all over the world to our conference.
You will find ancient China has young
features and a big market is waiting foryou. The aim of our conference is: ‘Let theworld understand China’s non-destructive
testing; let China’s non-destructive testing
move toward the world.’
Visit our website: www.17wcndt.com;
www.wcndt2008.com

The Official Journal of the International Committee for Non-Destructive TestingOBITUARY

Professor Dr Mikio Takagi

ICNDT Journal
Publisher: 				

The International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT)Secretariat: The Canadian Institute for NDE (CINDE), 135 Fennell Avenue,
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3T2, Canada. Tel: +1 (905) 387-1655; Fax: +1 (905)574-6080; E-mail: sbond@cinde.ca

Editor:		

Giuseppe Nardoni, Italian Society for Non-Destructive Testing andMonitoring Diagnostics (AIPnD), via A Foresti, 5, 25127 Brescia, Italy. Tel:
+39 030 373 9173; Fax: +39 030 373 9176; E-mail: aipnd@numerica.it

Production Editors: David Gilbert, The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT).
Tel: +44 1604 630124; Fax: +44 1604 231489 E-mail: david.gilbert@
bindt.org
				Sergio Ghia, AIPnD
E-mail: ghia@icndt.org

Production:		

Pauline Thomas, BINDT.

Published three times per year.

Your new ICNDTJournal is available
for downloading fromwww.icndt.org

Editorial contributions are welcomed.
Articles should be sent to the Publisher at the above address.
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.

International Forum on Certification of
NDT personnel held in Italy

Professor Dr Mikio Takagi died on
2 February 2006. He was a pioneer indigital signal and image processing andexplored many new frontiers of NDT. He
was the President of the Japanese Society
for Non-destructive Inspection in 19901992 and the voting delegate to ICNDT
since 1996. He was the chairman of ISO
TC-135 (NDT) since 1999. All of us willremember for a long time his excellent
leadership, sustaining enthusiasm andwarm friendship in harmonisation ofinternational NDT standards.
Professor M Onoe

An International Forum on Certification was held in conjunction with the Italian Society
for NDT (AIPnD) Annual Conference in Milan in last November. Present at the event wererepresentatives of EFNDT (Dr Mike Farley), ISO-TC137 (Dr Rick Murphy), ICNDT (DougMarshall), ASME (Mr Sullivan), DGZfP (Dr Rainer Link), OSNDT (Mr G Aufricht) and AIPnD(Messrs Nardoni and Gatti).
Full agreement was expressed by allparties that ISO 9712 should be adopted
as the world reference for the qualificationand certification of NDT personnel.
Mr Sullivan of ASME confirmed theacceptance for Code work of certificationaccording to ISO 9712 for construction in
ASME Section VIII Div 1, Section VIII Div 2
and Section V.
The American Society for Nondestructive
Testing (ASNT) has aligned its Central
Certification Program (ACCP) with ISO
9712.
A useful question and answer session
was included.
See the next issue of the ICNDT Journal
for a full certification status report fromMr Sullivan, ASME, presenting the ASME acceptance of ISO 9712 in ASME code Sec IV, Sec VIII
around the world.
Div 1 and Div 2

International Forum on Certification. Mr Farley, EFNDT President; Mr Murphy, ISO representative; Mr Marshall, ICNDT Chairman

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OBITUARY

Talbot Goldfinch
The
AustralianInstitute for NonDestructive Testing(AINDT) is sad toannounce the deathof one of its original
founding members,
Talbot Goldfinch.
Talbot, or Tol as he
was affectionately
known, was oneof the few remaining radiographers that
pioneered the use of radiography on naval
ships in the Second World War.
Following this, he was instrumental in
the setting of appropriate techniques andradiographic acceptance standards for theconstruction of frigates and destroyers thatwere built in the post-war period stretching
to 1966. In doing so, it was said that he left
a little bit of himself in every ship that heinvolved himself in. When this major era
in shipbuilding finally came to an end hethen went on to pursue an eminent careerin commercial NDT and consulting.
A fervent believer of professionalism in
NDT, Tol was a man who was extremely
active in the affairs of AINDT. He
played an instrumental role in setting up
Australia’s qualification and certification
scheme in the years from 1971 – 1985 as
well as holding several key positions on
the Federal Executive, including Presidentof AINDT in 1974/75.
He was best remembered for his workin international circles and was a tirelesssupporter and member of the Asia-PacificCommittee for Non-Destructive Testing(APCNDT) since its inception in 1976. He

then became its President at the time of the
4th Pan-Pacific Conference in Sydney in1983 and proved a charming host to manyof those who attended. The story goes that
the Japanese delegation came round to his
room at his hotel to rehearse their renditionof Waltzing Matilda.
“ … and very well they did too”,
remarked Tol. “They then went on to bring
the house down at the conference dinnerwith their wives resplendent in full national
costume.”From his involvement in APCNDT, Tol
was to make many firm friends including
Dr Ishii who, along with Gerald Tenneyfrom ASNT, were the founders of APCNDTin 1976. In this context, it was one of thegreatest highlights in Tol’s career when he
was awarded the prestigious Ishii Award at
the Japanese Society for Non-Destructive
Inspection’s (JSNDI) General Assembly in
1996.
Unassuming, with a twinkle in hiseye, he was not a man to seek awards ofany description, though they were fully
deserved when they came his way. In
addition to the Ishii Award, Tol was alsopresented with Honorary Life Membershipof the Institute in 1982 for outstanding
services and was the recipient of both the
J H Cole Award and the Florence Taylor
Medal from the AINDT and the AustralianInstitute for Metals, respectively.
By any measure, he was a man ofachievement for the Institute and in thefurtherance of NDT throughout South
East Asia and the Pacific region. Talbot E
Goldfinch was a man of his time and hewill be missed by those who knew him anda source of inspiration for those who follow
in his footsteps.

ICNDT Journal No 4
The next issue of the ICNDT Journal will be published inJune 2006 and will include:n 9th ECNDT preview (Berlin, September 2006)
n Directory of Member Societies (the ‘Journal of the Flags’)n Certification status report (records of certificates issued)
Copy deadline: 15 April 2006
Contact the Secretariat (see Page 2)

Future ICNDT meetings
ICNDT & PGP
PGP Committee
PGP Committee
ICNDT & PGP Committee

Berlin, September 2006
Auckland, November 2006
Argentina, October 2007
Beijing, August 2008

ISO 9712-2005
The new ISO 9712-2005 is now available in either electronic or hard copy format
Visit the ISO website at www.iso.org

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AWARD

Important Australianaward goes toTony SonneveldLong-servingm e m b e rof
ICNDT(International
Committee for NonDestructive Testing),
Tony Sonneveld, wasrecently presented
with the prestigious‘J H Cole’ Award at
the Materials andTesting Conference Tony Sonneveld (left)(MATE)
dinner and David Barnett,
joint winners of theheld in Fremantle, Australian InstituteWestern Australia for NDT’s J H Coleby
Mr
Vince Award
Wilcox, the Federal
President of the Australian Institute for
Non-Destructive Testing. The award wascreated to perpetuate the memory ofJames (Jim) Henry Cole who died in 1985
and to recognise the great contributionthat Jim made through his selfless efforts
as Honorary Secretary over twenty yearsof service to the Institute. The award isnormally presented annually to a recipient
who has likewise made a significant
contribution to NDT in Australia.
It is fitting that Tony, a well-known
member in ICNDT circles and the
Chairman of the Membership Committee,
received the award for he has been atireless campaigner of the preservation
of NDT history. In this respect he felt it
necessary to record the reminiscences ofmany of its original pioneers before theirexperiences and knowledge of events had
been lost forever. His efforts, therefore, in
producing the ‘History of Non-Destructive
Testing in Australia’, was immensely
satisfying to Tony and crowned a lifetimeof achievement of service to the AustralianInstitute and also as the Australian Voting
Delegate to ICNDT. This history was finallypublished in 2004 and was distributed to
all ICNDT member countries.
It is important to note that the award
was received jointly with David Barnett,
who also collaborated on the project.
David was the principal researcher and‘wordsmith’ who prepared the final written
text in a form that was both interesting andfactual to readers.
It was a matter of great pride thatboth men were able to achieve, perhaps,
the first recorded history of an ICNDT
member country, coupled with theacknowledgement of their efforts throughthe presentation of the ‘J H Cole Award’ by
the AINDT.

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NEWS

T

Non-Destructive Testing in the 3rd International Forum‘Fuel-energy Industry of Ukraine: the Present and the Future’

he 3rd International Forum, ‘Fuel-energy Industry of Ukraine:
the Present and the Future’, was held in the last week of
September, 2005 in the largest exhibition site in the Ukraine– the International Exhibition Center. The Forum was organised by
the Ministry of Fuel and Power Generation Industry of Ukraine andthe company ‘IEC’, with the support of the Cabinet of Ministers of
Ukraine and Ukraine’s Supreme Rada Committee on the problems
of fuel-energy industry, nuclear policy and nuclear safety.
The objective of the Forum was to unite the efforts of power,
business, science and production in implementation of the statepolicy of reforming the fuel-energy industry of Ukraine; providing
a reliable and effective functioning of the power network of thecountry, energy independence and safety.
Companies and plants of the fuel-energy industry, leading local
and foreign manufacturers of equipment, products and services
for the power, oil & gas and coal industry, research institutes andpublic organisations participated in the Forum.
The Forum programme included seminars devoted toreforming the industry, implementation of the priority objectives
on development, construction, upgrading, monitoring, repair andreconstruction of the main plants of the fuel-energy industry of
Ukraine, round table discussions, business meetings, subjectoriented presentations of the most advanced technologies, services
and equipment for the fuel-energy industry.
A seminar entitled: ‘Application of directed ultrasonic waves fortesting extended limited-access plants’ was held as part of theForum.
The seminar was organised by the Ukrainian Society for NDT,
the E O Paton Electric Welding Institute, and ‘Plant Integrity Ltd’,a division of TWI, Great Britain. It was devoted to the method of
long-range ultrasonic testing of extended plants by low-frequency
directed waves propagating for more than 50 m distance fromthe point of placing the array with ultrasonic transducers. Thismethod, which is newly emerging in the Ukraine and of topicalinterest, is highly beneficial in testing such plants as, for instance,
insulated pipelines, underground or above-ground, underwater orabove-water insulated pipelines, supports of wind-driven electric
plants, and other extended plants.
Plant Integrity Ltd participated in the preparation and conductingof the seminar. This company has considerable experience indevelopment and operation of equipment for this kind of testing.

Mr Davide Kleiner, specialist of this company, came to Kiev withthe purpose of making a presentation on ‘Application of TELETEST
system of Plant Integrity Ltd (Great Britain) for long-range ultrasonic
testing’.
A discussion was held on the possibility of applying the
TELETEST system in the fuel-energy industry of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Society for NDT joined an International
Consortium which will perform research in this field. This was the
subject of the presentation made by Prof. V. Troitskij on ‘Prospects
for application in Ukraine of the long-range ultrasonic testingof pipelines without their uncovering and scraping. Setting up an
International Consortium’.
Results of theoretical and experimental studies alreadyconducted at the E O Paton Electric Welding Institute on
development of this testing method were presented in the paperon ‘Features of controlled waves, propagating in waveguides,
and their practical application in ultrasonic testing of extended
plants’.
Altogether, 2500 specialists from more than 200 plants and
187 companies from 11 countries participated in the specialised
exhibition. The Forum was presented in more than 50 specialised
publications and internet-sites, as well as several TV channels.
The next (4th) Forum will be held from 26 to 29 September
2006.
N Silova, International Exhibition Center,
A Shekero, E O Paton EWIDavide Kleiner of TWI making his presentation

The seminar on long-range ultrasonics was well attended

Scientific-practical seminar

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Regional Report

Contact:
M Shafy – shafy@maktoob.com
F Herelli – herelli.f@scncff.com.tn

AFRICAI

African Regional Conference held in Cairon developing countries, the effective
use of NDT is of particular importanceto ensure the proper performance ofequipment, to verify the integrity of large
investment projects and also to inspect
imported products and services. Member
states of the AFRA region are in the processof industrialisation and there is now,
more than ever, the need to bring NDTtechnology into the region.
AFRA has been assisting its member
states in the field of NDT methods, withparticular emphasis on capacity building
for certification and qualification of
NDT personnel, upgrading of available
infrastructure as well as bridging the gap
between the advanced countries and theothers where the expertise is still needed.
This has resulted in the introduction andpartial establishment of NDT technology
in most of the countries.
The
AfricanFederationofNondestructive Testing (AFNDT) organisesa regional conference every four years that
deals with current research activities in theq NDT regulations
q Quality assurance in NDT activities
q Material evaluationq In-service inspection
q Welding, casting and wrought material
inspection
q Vibration analysis
q Advanced (NDT) techniqueq Industrial safety.

field of non-destructive application andmaterial evaluation.
The Fourth African Regional Conference– which took place 11-13 February 2006 in
Cairo – involved international participationof knowledge in the interdisciplinary
fields of non-destructive testing and theirapplications. The national and international
communities participated in the conference
to enrich and promote knowledge andtechniques for non-destructive testing,and to envisage future prospects andtrends.
The scientific activities of theconference included keynote presentations
by international and regional recognisedscientists to highlight recent progressin non-destructive testing, addressing
their regulations and the promotion of
applications of non-destructive testing inindustry. The conference sessions also
included panel discussions and technicalpresentations.
Main sponsors of the conference were
the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority(EAEA) and the International Atomic
Energy Agency – Vienna. Chairman of
the Conference is Professor Aly Islam,
Chairman of EAEA and Vice Chairman isProfessor Karim EL Adham.
Conference topics included:
q Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods
q Non-destructive examination (NDE)q NDT personnel certification

An exhibition was held concurrently
with the conference, which was held at the
Helnan Shepard Hotel. A programme of preand post-conference tours was available,
enabling participants and companions
to visit the many local attractions andplaces of interest, including Luxor, Aswan,
Hurghada and Saini.
For further information, contact:
Prof Mahmoud Ahmed Shafy Haraza,
Atomic Energy Authority, 3 Ahmad
AL-Zomor St, Al-Zuhoor District, Nasr
City, Cairo, Egypt. Fax: (00202) 2740238;
E-mail:ShafyMahmoud@hotmail.com/
Shafy@maktoob.com

18th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing
2012
Durban, South Africa
E-mail: amanda.vdwesthuizen@andtc.com

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Regional Report

Contact:
L Dick – ljdick@ndt.co.nz
O-Y Kwon – okwon@inha.ac.kr

ASIA-PACIFIC

W

Well on the way to a successful conference

ith less than 12 months to the 12th APCNDT Conference,
the work continues unabated and to this end some ofyou will have seen us out continuing the good work,from Sri Lanka to Perth (Australia) and even to Kolkata (India), for
the ISNT’s national conference in December.
The call for abstracts has been out to your societies for sometime now and still the response is a little lower than expected.
This is your chance to get your message across to the Asia-PacificRegion and the ICNDT group as a whole.
If you have been unable to gain a copy personally, they are alsoavailable on the website: www.apcndt2006.com, where you will
also find any and all information, contact details and sponsorshippackages.

Les addressing the Mate05 conference in Perth, Australia

I am extremely pleased to add that, at the time of writing, wehave secured another large sponsor with the signing of ‘Olympus’
at the AINDT’s Mate05 conference in Perth in October.
Add to this the generous donation by ‘Genesis Energy NZ’ andtwo previous sponsors: SGS Group and ATC Ltd, we are well on
the way to making a very successful conference. Contact details
are available for these companies through their ‘Logos’ on our
website.
With the continued support of the IAEA we will be adding to
the success of this conference by way of the hosting of workshops
in the days leading up to the conference, for the development of
ISO accreditation for developing countries from around the world.

Lyn Dick (left) and Christine Thomson during a quiet moment at the
Joint AINDT/NZNDTA APCNDT Stand at Mate05

To this end, I have attended the IAEA meeting in Sri Lanka on thisin August, where the recognition of RCA member states’ Personnel
Certification Schemes was discussed and timelines set for thesecountries to move toward accreditation, with a view to gaining theextra help needed at the APCNDT Workshops.
Ultimately, the APCNDT will be asked formally at the 2006
meeting, to take up the role of administering the scheme through aworking group to assist this in the future.
An interim group will perform these duties until such time as
the APCNDT is able to take up this role.
Whilst attending this meeting I canvassed the APCNDT
representatives by email for their response to such a plan andgained general acceptance from all who responded.
We were, however, unable to accept this role until it is formally
ratified by the APC Meeting itself.
So our theme of ‘Working Closer Together’ now means just thatand I for one look forward to the challenge that awaits us.
We have proven that sister societies can work together, with
the AINDT and the NZNDTA now operating the same certification
scheme and New Zealand’s first ISO9712 exams being conductedin October and December.
As President of APCNDT, I look forward to continuing thecommunication, support and development of our regional groupto the betterment of this region and all member societies and also
towards harmonisation and recognition of international standards
and relationships. This can only be achieved with your support
and with that of groups such as IAEA supporting our initiatives.
We wish you all well for the coming months until we all meetagain and encourage you to get involved in ‘Your Conference’and the IAEA/ICNDT sessions in the week of the 12th APCNDT
Conference, 5-10 November 2006, in Auckland New Zealand.
Les Dick
President APCNDT

Stefan Kierspel of GE approaching the APCNDT stand ‘again’, andcaught by the ICNDT flag!

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EUROPEM

eetings of the Board of Directors
and the General Assembly were
held in the elegant surroundingsof the beautiful historic city of Vienna on
11 and 12 November 2005.
The Board reported its activities during
2005, including:q Update of the EFNDT website
incorporating
new
information
services.
q Completion of a Question Bank which Mike Farley
is available for purchase by Certification
Bodies which are members of the
EFNDT Mutual Recognition Agreement.
q Transfer of responsibility for the MRA to the Certification
Executive Committee.
q Expansion of the scope of WG1 and retitling as ‘EFNDT Forumon Certification, Qualification and Accreditation’.
q Completion of the preparations for EFNDT to approve
Certification Bodies.
q Documents originally prepared under the auspices of EFNDT
on the approval of NDT personnel for work under the European
Pressure Equipment Directive have been approved and are
published on the EFNDT website. Almost all the RTPOs areusing these documents.
q WG5, previously renamed ‘Detection of Anti-Personnel Land
Mines’, has broadened its scope and is now named ‘Public
Security and Safety NDT Technology’.
q The German NDT Society, DGzfP, is well advanced with plans
for the 2006 ECNDT in Berlin 25-29 September 2006. The
Exhibition is fully booked and more than 700 papers/abstracts
will be presented. Details are accessible at www.ecndt2006.
info
q Discussions have begun on strengthening the EFNDT
administration, its presence in Brussels and liaison with theEuropean Commission and other European institutions.
q EFNDT maintains contact with other European bodies (including
EUROLAB, EPERC) and International bodies (including IAF
Task Group on ISO 17024) through individuals nominated by
the BoD.
q The President represented EFNDT in Sweden, UK, Russia,
Belgium, Italy and the USA and the Federation was represented
by other Board Members in Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia,
Germany, Ukraine, etc. EFNDT was represented at the ICNDTPGP meeting in Albuquerque by Mr Romero.
q EFNDT members are participating in several collaborative
projects, supported by the European Commission, including a‘Leonardo Project’ on NDT Training initiated by the Spanish
NDT Society, and a ‘Collective Project’ on Long Range
Ultrasonics, led by TWI with EFNDT co-ordinating the activitiesof member societies.

The Russian Society
was selected to host the10th ECNDT in 2010 in
Moscow.
The
GeneralAssembly unanimously
accepted a proposal for the Board to make three EFNDT Awards.
These will be announced at the Berlin Conference.
The next Board Meeting will be in Glasgow on 27 January
2006 and the following one in Budapest on 22 May 2006. The
next General Assembly will be in Berlin on Friday 29 September
2006.

Those present at the General Assembly in the main hall of theVienna Chamber of Commerce. In all, 21 member societies wererepresented

Officers, 2005-08
President
Mike Farley(UK)
Vice President Gerhard Aufricht (Austria)
Treasurer
Gerard Hennaut (Belgium)
Members
Emilio Romero (Spain)
Claes Eriksson(Sweden)Rainer Link
(Germany)
Michel Poudrai (France)
Vjera Krstelj(Croatia)
Erik Zeelenberg (Holland)
Irena Pushkina (Russia)
President of ECNDTDr Volker (until 2006) (Germany)
Vladimir Klyuev (from 2006) (Russia)
Secretariat
British Institute of NDTChair of Advisory Board Irena Pushkina(Russia)
Auditor
Rune Kristiansen (Norway)

Multilateral Recognition Agreement
Schedule 2
Registered Certification Bodies
Several NDT Personnel Certification Schemes/Bodies
have been accepted by the EFNDT Qualification andCertification Working Group as complying with thecriteria set out in the EFNDT Agreement on Multilateral
Recognition of NDT Personnel Certification Schemes andthus are recognised by the signatories to the Agreement.
Schedule 2, dated December 2005 is available fordownloading at www.efndt.org
Further information is obtainable from Certification
Executive Committee, c/o COFREND, 1 rue Gaston
Boissier, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 19 76 18
E-mail: cofrend@confrend.asso.fr

Members of the Board at the General Assembly meeting in Vienna

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EUROPEIECNDT Programme Committee convened

n October 2006, the chairmen of
the ECNDT-Programme Committee,
Professor Anton Erhard and Dr Gerd
Dobmann, met with Dr Rainer Link, Stefan
Cullmann and Steffi Schäske for a closed
session in Potsdam, in order to sift throughthe 712 contributions submitted at thatpoint in time. Every single summary wasread, discussed and evaluated during thefour days. In the end, the originally planned
six parallel meetings turned into eight.
On the last day, the preliminary
programme had been compiled, the main
papers selected and the session chairmen
proposed.
Altogether, 488 papers are going to
be held and 202 posters presented at 111
sessions. 39 poster authors will have theopportunity of giving a briefpresentation of their work.
The areas of ‘Aerospace’,‘Materials Characterisation’and ‘Modelling & Signal
Processing’aremostrepresented with 48, 37 and36 papers respectively.
All authors will be
informedabout
theacceptance of their papers by
20 December. Authors
whose paper has been
accepted will receive arequest to register bindingly Sifting through more than 700 registered contributions
by 15 February 2006 and submitted for four days: Dr Dobmann (left) and Prof Erhard
pay
their
participation
fee. Authors whose registration andparticipation fee have not been received
by this date, will not be taken over into theprogramme with their paper.
This is an overview of the number of
papers on the respective subjects:
Aerospace (48)Materials Characterisation (37)
Modelling & Signal Processing (36)
Ultrasonic (25)Power Generation - Nuclear (23)Transportation – Rail (16)
Digital Radiology (15)Art and Architecture – Civil
Engineering (19)Transportation - Automotive (12)Computer Tomography (15)Magnetic/Electromagnetic (14)Ultrasonic Phased Array (12)Pipeline InService Inspection (15)Polymer & Composites (15)Public Security (15)
Qualification, Validation,
Certification (11)TeraHertz (12)Non-Linear (12)Transducer & Sensors (15)Acoustic Emission (8)Certification, Qualification, Training,
Personnel (10)Chemical & Petrochemical (8)Infrared & Optical (10)Lifetime Management (7)Power Generation - Fossil (10)Process Monitoring (10)Maritime Offshore (9)Standardisation (8)Metals (10)Dimensional Measurement (5)Food Technology (4)Leak Detection (4)Penetrant Testing (4)Radiation Protection (5)Radiography (5)Vibration Analysis (4).
On behalf of DGZfP, Dr Rainer Link
thanked Dr Dobmann and Prof Erhard fortheir work on the Programme Committee,characterised by great experience andcommitment.

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

EUROPET

Two new DGZfP technical committees founded

he new DGZfP Technical Committee Structural Health
Monitoring (TC SHM) was founded on 28 September 2005,
attended by 29 participants in Dresden. DGZfP Chairman,
Jörg Völker, stressed the necessity of such a body for structural
health monitoring, in which experts from industry and research
discuss needs and application techniques with one
another.
The application of structural health monitoring
is not new. However, it has become interesting forpractical use from an economic point of view onlywith today’s state-of-the-art technology.
Holger Speckmann, who was elected Deputy
TC Chairman, explained how the founding of thetechnical committee came about: He was looking for
new technologies and application possibilities in the area of SHM
in the maintenance of aircraft and invited the respective specialists
from industry and research for an exchange of ideas. This is how
a loose working group formed, meeting at regular intervals. The
members of this working group now belong to the newly founded
DGZfP TC SHM.
Prof Norbert Meyendorf, who had been elected the Chairmanof the TC before, also explained that it had only become possible
now to use SHM economically, as the powerful small sensors had
meanwhile become available at a low cost.
A proposal submitted by Prof Meyendorf for a TC working
programme comprises:
q Definition of terms
q Stocktaking
q R & D initiatives
q Setting up a training system
q Drawing up guidelines
q Assessing the reliability of SHM systems.

The new TC chairmen
Prof Norbert G H Meyendorf, born in February 1953, has been the
Division Head of Fraunhofer IZFP Dresden since May 2004. Since
2000, he has held a professorship at the University of Dayton,
Graduate Materials Engineering.
Prof Meyendorf is the General Chairman of the SPIE’s
Conference ‘Non-Destructive Evaluation for Health Monitoringand Diagnostics’, on the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Microand Nano Materials Berlin, member of the American Society for
Nondestructive Testing, member of the DGZfP and member of theMaterial Research Society.
Holger Speckmann is the transnational Project Manager
for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) at Airbus
Germany and thus responsible for the development
and provision of this technology.
He is the head of various national and European
and international research projects as well as theauthor of numerous publications.
Holger Speckmann is co-organiser and Chairmanof the ‘International Workshop on SHM (IWSHM)’
in Standford and the ‘European Workshop on SHM(EWSHMM)’.
In April 2005, 20 participants convened for the founding
meeting of the DGZfP Technical Committee Non-Destructive
Testing in Aerospace (TC Aerospace) at the MTU Maintenance
Berlin-Brandenburg in Ludwigsfelde.
Ralf Holstein, Managing Director for Training, welcomed thespecialists attending and then conducted the election of the TC
Chairman and his Deputy.
Berthold Busch was elected unanimously as the Chairman of
the new Technical Committee and Dr Eckardt Schneider was also
elected unanimously as his Deputy.
According to a survey among the participants, the following
focal points were identified for the future work:q Training and certification of the testing staff.
q Information about the National Aerospace NDT Board(NANDT).
q Lectures on the state-of-the-art technology and standardisation
as well as an exchange of experience.
q Reports about NADCAP (www.pri-network.org/Nadcap).
The sessions of the technical committee should take place ataerospace enterprises also in the future, and should always be
combined with a tour of the company, if at all possible.

Berthold Busch
Since 1980, Berthold Busch has beenwith the company Tital, Titan-AluminiumFeinguß GmbH, a manufacturer ofdemanding investment casting products
from titanium and aluminium alloys forthe aerospace industry. Since 1988, he has
been the Head of Quality Management,
since 1991, also responsible at Level III
PT/RT. In 1987 and 1989, he underwent Berthold Buschtraining in PT/RT up to Level III at the
Aerospace Inspection Training Centre, Norwich. In the following
years, he obtained further qualifications and licenses from RollsRoyce, Boeing and Honeywell, pursuant to NAS 410/EN 4179. Heworks in various bodies of the DIN and the BDLI and has been amember of the DPZ Programme Committee since 2004.

Dr Eckhardt Schneider

Prof Meyendorf of the Fraunhofer-Institut for NDT Dresden (left) is
to head the new technical committee. Holger Speckmann, Airbus
Deutschland GmbH Bremen, is his Deputy

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Since 1979, Dr Eckhardt Schneider has
been working for the IZFP Saarbrücken in
the area of new and further developments ofultrasound techniques of NDT proceduresfor the process-integrated material andstructural health analysis. He is the Headof the Automobile Division. In 1989, hereceived the Josef-von-Fraunhofer Award
Eckhardt Schneider
and in 1992, the Berthold Award.

Regional Report

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

PAN-AMERICAA

ASNT Hosts 2005 Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show

SNT held its 2005 Fall Conference and Quality Testing Showin its hometown of Columbus, Ohio, 17-21 October. The
meeting matched an impressive professional programmewith innovative trade show exhibitions and busy committee
meetings, all coming together at the Hyatt Regency and Greater
Columbus Convention Center. The successful event brought
together over 1400 NDT professionals from around the world. In
addition to two panel discussions, the professional programme saw
124 papers presented in 36 sessions devoted to seemingly every
type of NDT technology and application imaginable. The Quality
Testing Show was the place to see the latest in NDT products andtechnology, with 103 exhibitors in 145 booths demonstrating how
they continue to advance the state of the art.
A short course, ‘Time-of-Flight Diffraction — Practical Guide
to Data Collection and Data Analysis,’ taught by Tim Armitt,began the conference on Monday morning. The various ASNT
councils and committees also began their meetings on Monday
and continued them throughout the week.
The Society’s Annual Business Meeting was held on Monday as
well. ASNT National Conference General Chair and Professional
Programme Chair Claudia Kropas-Hughes was recognised for her
work.

Introduction of Officers at the Annual Business Meeting, held
17 October 2005 at the ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing
Show in Columbus, Ohio. From Left to Right: Chairman of the Board
Joseph Mackin, President Henry Stephens (standing), Vice President
Sharon Vukelich, Secretary/Treasurer Marvin Trimm, and Executive
Director Wayne Holliday

Outgoing members of the ASNT Board of Directors and Council
Chairs for 2004-2005 were presented plaques for their service tothe organisation. Board members included Brenda L Collins, LouisJ Elliott, Jocelyn Langlois, Larry G Olsen, Marvin W Trimm; and,Council Chairs recognised were Louis J Elliott, Glenn M Light,
Ricky L Morgan and Roland J Valdes. A significant business item,
the amended and restated ASNT Bylaws were voted upon andaccepted. The document took effect 1 January 2006.
The Quality Testing Show was the location for a poster
competition held by ASNT to encourage participation by students
enrolled in NDT programmes. The first place winner was Harsha
Phukan, for his poster on ‘Defect Detection in Friction Stir Welds.’
Phukan received a plaque and a cash prize. Second and third
place went to Lisa Rouzee and Kellen Heideman, respectively.
They too received plaques and cash awards.
Eugene Reinhart presented the Mehl Honor Lecture andKeynote Address, ‘A Personal Retrospective of NDT Experiences
around the World.’ Reinhart’s experiences working on projects thatinvolved the cooperation of technicians, researchers and scientists

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from
many
different
countries formed the basis
for his entertaining andinformative
discussion,
which focused on thetechnology
transfer
process and the ways inwhich people comingfrom different backgrounds
manage to communicate.
The
professional
programme
sessions— divided into three and,at times, four concurrent
sessions — focused on
topics including NDT ofcomposites, data analysis
methods, phased array
applications,
groundpenetrating radar, industryspecific applications and Joseph Mackin (right) presents themany others.
Charles N Sherlock Meritorious Service
Four more short courses award to the 2005 recipient, David
took place during the L Culberston, at the ASNT Annual
week: ‘Fundamentals of Awards Banquet, held 19 October
Welding Process as Related 2005 in Columbus, Ohio
to NDT,’ taught by Richard
Holdren; ‘Applications of Phased Arrays,’ taught by Michael
Moles; ‘Eddy Current,’ taught by Hussein Sadek; and ‘Video Probe
Measurement Techniques,’ taught by Michael Allgaier.
The Annual Awards Banquet took place on Wednesday
evening, where ASNT members and guests gathered to recognise
those members of the NDT community who have earned theSociety’s highest honours by contributing both to the science of
NDT and to the Society itself. The Banquet was also the occasion
for the ceremonial changing of the presidential collar, with the
installation of 2005-2006 ASNT President Sharon Vukelich andthe other officers taking place. Incoming President Vukelichaddressed the crowd over dinner and ASNT Executive Director
Wayne Holliday presented outgoing Chair Joe Mackin with theSociety’s thanks for all of his work over the years.
The successful conference wrapped up on Friday with attendees
participating in the post-conference seminar entitled ‘Avoiding
Explosions: NBIC Requirements for Materials, Welding, NDE,
Inspection and Testing’ which was conducted by Chuck Walters.
For more information contact: Betsy J Blazar, ASNT Sr Manager,
Marketing & Membership. Tel: 800.222.2768; E-mail: bblazar@
asnt.org

The 2005 class of ASNT Fellows: (from left to right) Larry G Olsen,David Bajula, Sreenivas Alampalli, Michael T Anderson, Jerry D Fulin,
Yossi Shoef, Darrell W Harris and Reza Zoughi (Lawrence Goldberg
was unable to attend)

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TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION IN BRAZIL
British Institute’s Certification Manager
attends meeting at ABENDE
On 2 July 2005, John Thompson
attended a meeting of theCertification Bureau, held in São
Paulo, at the Brazilian SocietyofNondestructive
Testing(ABENDE), where everyonepresent had the opportunity to
exchange ideas and information
about both SNQC/END and PCN/ John Thompson, (standing)
BINDT systems. John Thompson attends a meeting at ABENDE
is the manager of PCN, of the
British Institute of NDT, with which ABENDE has a cooperationagreement to qualify and certificate people in NDT.

Certification Bureau develops newqualification models
The SNQC/END Certification Bureau of ABENDE is developing
new qualification and certification models in NDT (ACFM, Gradeand Tightness Test), as well as dimensional control inspector
and manufacturing inspector. The two latter are part of a recent
agreement signed between ABENDE and SEQUI/Petrobras.
ABENDE will implement all these models at SNQC/END, withfinal professional certification, as required by the national andinternational standards for each method. Additional informationand documents relating to these test methods are available at the
Association’s website.

ABENDE invests in certification system
Now, professionals certified in NDT by the National Staff
Qualification and Certification System can easily and quickly
obtain the results on qualification and/or certification. ABENDE
built an electronic query system for these professionals certified
by the Association. From now on, those interested in getting
information on the status of their processes with the National
Qualification and Certification System at ABENDE will findeverything they need at the website: http://www.abende.org.br/
and follow the processes in the electronic query system, such as
qualification tests, re-certification processes and structured credit,
maintenance data, among others. This is a new service system inBrazil that ABENDE is proud to offer to the certified professionals.

ABENDE welcomes the Coordination
Committee of PROMINPOn 18 November 2005, the head-minister of the Executive Office,Dilma Rousseff, launched the Professional Qualification Plan ofProminp – Mobilization Program of the National Industry of Oil andNatural Gas, when closing the III Prominp National Workshop. The
Executive Director of the Association, Mr João Conte, represented
ABENDE in the event, on 17 November. The objectives of theworkshop were to present the results of the activities, to promote a
critical analysis and structure a new proposal for next year.
Prominp was created to mobilise the Brazilian industry to meetthe demand for investments in the oil and gas sector in the future.
The programme was divided in several projects and one of themdeals specifically with training and certification of professionals:
the Project IND-025. According to Petrobras, the Plan will require
an investment of 220 million reais and its objective is to create acritical mass of 70 thousand professionals in high, technical andfundamental education levels to meet the demand of the oil andgas sector. Sixty-four thousand professionals in the fundamental

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and technical levels and 6000 in the high level will be trained up
until the end of 2007, making use of an important professional
education structure of the country.
Prominp was divided in seven models: END, Ducts andWelding, Dimensional Control, Manufacturing, Painting andInsulation, Electric and Instrumentation and Civil Construction.
ABENDE coordinates one of them, END. According to a survey, theprofessional staff for some modalities of Non-Destructive Testing(NDT) will be insufficient to meet the demand expected for next
year. A major concern is with the number of level 3 professionals
existing today. According to Prominp’s data, it will be necessary tohave at least 50 new professionals in the market.
A human resources gap analysis was carried out and Prominp
mapped 150 categories of professionals working, mainly in theengineering market, including technicians, inspectors, managers
and engineers. The event organisers reached a very discouraging
conclusion. Until May 2007, 57,282 job positions need to becreated for specialised professionals, both with technical and higheducation. It is believed that in this period, the industry capacity
will be of 16,000 professionals.
“Today, our project’s bottleneck is not training but thecertification process. We have few entities to certify and that’s
why ABENDE is a reference for the project”, says Luiz Cesar deAlmeida, chairman of the Certification Board of ABENDE andcoordinator of the Project IND-025 of Prominp.

Leak testing and vibration analysis courses
conducted by German experts
The Vibration Analysis course – Level 2, carried out from 8 to 17
August 2005 and promoted by ABENDE, was warmly welcomedby students. The course had 11 participants and four instructors,
among them Dr Ulrich Südmersen, head of the Vibration Analysis
Department of the Materials Institute - IW of the University ofHanover, Germany. The Leak Testing course inaugurated the
ABENDE’s new laboratory that now has new classrooms. Heldfrom 22 to 31 August 2005 in São Paulo, the course had thepresence of German experts in the area of non-destructive testing:
Miquel Thieme, from DGZfP – the German NDT Association, andWilfried Schmidt, head of the Education Center Dortmund andof DGZfP – German NDT Association who were the instructors.
The next Leak Testing Level 1 course will be held from 31 July to
4 August 2006 and Level 2 from 7 to 18 August 2006.

Standardisation Board
Concerned with the advancement of all areas related with nondestructive testing, ABENDE created the Standardisation Board.
The first meeting was on 30 August 2005. The Board approved
the internal regulation so that all subjects can be clearly exposed
and all rules applied to the operation of the Standardisation Board
ONS 58. The Standardisation Board is a technical, advisory anddeliberative body and has the following attributions:q Advise ABENDE’s Board in defining guidelines and strategies
related to standardisation
q Prepare the Standardisation Action Plan to be approved by
ABENDE’s Board and subsequent approval by ABNT
q Propose the creation of other Study Committees according to
the market needs.
Each president will have a two-year mandate; Maria Izabel L
Gebrael from Metal-Chek was elected by the Board members as
the first president of the Standardisation Board. “The creation of theStandardisation Board within ABENDE’s framework was excellent.
Establishing Brazilian standards to non-destructive testing was an
actual need”, she said.

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CALENDAR OF NDT EVENTS
Month

Date

Venue

March
2006

13-17

OrlandoUSA

15th ASNT Annual Research
Symposium

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

April
2006

10-14

Kiev
Ukraine5th National Scientific-TechnicalConference and Exhibition‘Non-Destructive Testing andTechnical Diagnostics’usndt@ukr.net
www.usndt.com.ua

May
2006

16-19

Moscow
Russia5th International Exhibition and
Conference for non-destructive
testing equipment and devices

ndt@primexpo.ru
www.ndt-russia.ru

June
2006

27-30

PadovaItaly

QIRT 2006 – 8th Conferenceon Quantitative InfraRed
Thermography

info.qirt2006@itc.cnr.it
qirt2006.pd.cnr.it

July
2006

23-26

São Paulo
BrazilCongress - XXIV CONAEND
Exhibition - XV EXPOEND

abende@abende.org.br
www.abende.org.br

July-August
2006

30 July4 AugustPortlandUSA

22rd Review of Progress in
Quantitative Nondestructive
Evaluation – QNDE

qnde3@cnde.iastate.edu
www.cnde.iastate.edu/qnde/qnde.html

14-18

St LouisUSA

The 7th Structural Materials
Technology (SMT): NDE/NDT for
Highways and Bridges
6th International Symposium on
NDT in Civil Engineering/NDT-CE

12-14

Stratford-upon-Avon
UK

18-19

Stuttgart
Germany

Conference on Damage in
Composite Materials – Simulation
and Nondestructive Testing

cdcm06@isd.uni-stuttgart.dewww.cdcm06.de

25-29

BerlinGermany

9th European Conference on NDT(ECNDT)

mail@ecndt2006.info
www.ecndt2006.info

23-27

HoustonUSA

ASNT Fall Conference and Quality
Testing Show

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

24-27

São Paulo
BrazilSeminars - II Forum on New NDTTechnologies

abende@abende.org.br
www.abende.org.br

5-10

Auckland
New Zealand12th Asia Pacific Conference on
Non-Destructive Testing 2006

www.apcndt2006.com

Porto Alegre

II Mercosur Meeting on NDT and
Inspection

abende@abende.org.br
www.abende.org.br

August2006

September
2006

October
2006

November
2006
29-30

NDT 2006: 45th Annual
Conference of BINDT

Contact

conferences@asnt.org
www.asnt.org

conf@bindt.org
www.bindt.org

October
2007

22-26

Buenos Aires
Argentina

4th Pan-American Conferenceon Non-Destructive Testing(PANNDT)

info@aaende.org.ar
www.aaende.org.ar

August2008

26-30

Shanghai,China

17th World Conference on NDT

chsndt@public2.sta.net.cn
snit@citiz.net
www.chsndt.com

Durban, South Africa

18th World Conference on NDTamanda.vdwesthuizen@andtc.com

2012

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