theThe Official
Journal of theInternational
Committee for
Non-Destructive
Testing

ICNDTjournalMr. M. Farley
General Secretaryof ICNDT

Celebrating

Prof. Zdzislaw
Pawlowski

years of continuous work for developing NDT in the world

The ICNDT. Its history, its new Constitution, its objectives, its plans, the valuable work of
its members moved by an uncomparable volunteer efforts
The world-wide spreading of Non -destructive Testing Technologies, the promotion offoundation and growing of National NDT Societies, the link up with Institutions andAuthorities, the global mutual recognition of certification schemes inspired to ISO 9712,
the recommendations for the various aspects of NDT, the promotion of research for advanced techniques to solve incoming problems, are the major items that will shape the activity of ICNDT in this eve of the 3rd Millennium.

My Dear colleaguesof ICNDTThe ICNDT secretariat
received recently a letterfrom a group of engineerof Vietnam asking news
on ICNDT. They aregoing to establish theVietnam NDT Society!
This has been for me, and I am sure for allof you, a wonderful Christmas gift. This is
the expression that our efforts in making
ICNDT a world wide family for everybody, for every country involved in NDT,
have been addressed in the right way.
Dear Members, thanks for your work,
thanks for your suggestions, thanks foryour intangible messages I receive fromyou every day.
In this eve of the 3rd Millennium in spiteof many dramatic problems arising on ourdaily life, the incoming scenario is morethan ever oriented to a will of peace. We
have to believe in it and work for it.
As ICNDT Members we have contributed, although for a very small part, toachieve these new scenarios.
Thanks my Dear Friends! To you andyour families the best greetings for a
fruitful ’99 of joy and prosperity.
Your G. Nardoni

ICNDTICNDT Pubblication
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Dear
Kofi Anan
General Secretary of United Nations
You are the General Secretary of
UNO the worldwide organisation to which we will refer more and more for our living in conditions of pace and equality.
I am the President of ICNDT the worldwide organisation, to which we refer in matter of Nondestructive Testing,the techniques to prove the integrity of products, plants, aircrafts, civil constructions etc.
In the occasion of giving up our first Journal we are honored to take to your attention our activity, our problems, ourcapacity in preventing disasters in the different fields.
Never as now the voices of INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS are called for global solutions, global vews, global rules.
With our journal we believe to be closer to the people of
the NDT Community in their needs.
The foundation of the EFNDT (European Federation
for Nondestructive Testing), the PACNDT (Pan American
Committee for NDT), the PPCNDT (Pan Pacific Committee for NDT) and the incoming PMEA-CNDT (Pan
Meadle East - Africa Committee) are the expression of ourProf. Pawloski
passed the 21
October ’98.
The Members of
ICNDT and thewhole NDT Community remained
attonisched.
Present in Copenhagen ’98, he washonorary Member of ICNDT and
one of the founder of the Committee.
In 1972 he was President of
ICNDT and organized the 7 thWorld conference in Warsawia. He
was Professor of Mechanical Engineer and founder of the NDT Societyof Poland. He did a magnificent
work through the years for promoting the friendship around theworld.
Thanks dear Pawlowski

will to strength together the world NDT Community.
We are proud to offer to your Organisation all our technical supports for any of the miriades of cases in which reliability and safety are called for priority.
As we will proceed with our activity in the international
scenario we will take you informed.
We are fully convinced that UNITED NATIONS are what
you clearly stated in your speeches as hereafter reported:• Only a global organisation is capable of meeting global
challenges.
• The UNITED NATIONS is a noble experiment in human cooperation.
• In every corner of the world, in every village and city andcommunity, the UN is a living testament of hope. The UNITED NATIONS lives in the heart and mind of every citizen
striving to end violence and promote tolerance, advance development and ensure equality, protect uman rights and alleviate poverty. The UNITED NATIONS at it best, enables
the achievements of highest human aspirations.
Thanks, dear Kofi Anan for your attention, we wish you all ourbest to your efforts in reaching the intangible ideals of your mission.
You will be our honourable guest in Rome for the World Conference we are organizing on 15/21 october 2000!

Antwerpen 1955, Rome 2000:
the growing itinerary of ICNDTThe first light of International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing wasin 1955 in Antwerpen (Belgium), where
a number of experts
met to discuss achieProf. P. De Meester
vements of research(Belgium)and technology improvements in radiography. An initiative
undertaken and funded by Gevaert, thefilm manufacturer now days AGFA.
Among the pioneers of those days weremember Prof. Homes (Belgium), Dr.
Tenney (USA), Prof. Moravia (Italy),Prof. Bastien (France).
The plan to hold a world conference
on NDT was just thought at that meeting. On the purpose, the ICNDT was
established with 15 Countries promp-

Past Presidentof ICNDT,
President of
PGP Committee

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Mr. B. Ray

tly embracing the idea to world-wide
spreading NDT technology.
Then, the first World Conference washeld in Belgium (Brussels, 1955) inacknowledgement of its praiseworthy
efforts previously undertaken in hosting the first NDT international
event. Further 13 NDT World Conference have been held in the listed
Countries.

(l-r) Paul Bastien, Giorgio Moravia, GeorgésHomes e Kurt Fink.

YEAR CITY
COUNTRY
1955 Brussels Belgium
1958 Chicago U.S.A.
1960 Tokyo
Japan
1963 London
U.K.
1967 Montreal Canada
1970 Hanover Germany
1973 Warsaw
Poland1976 Cannes
France1979 Melbourne Australia
1982 Moscow Russia
1985 Las Vegas U.S.A.
1989 Amsterdam The Netherlands
1992 Sao Paulo Brazil
1996 New Delhi India
2000 Rome
Italy

U. Deschaumes(Agfa - Antwerpen)

The next World Conference, the 15th,
will be hosted, for the first time, in
Italy. Consequently, the Italian Society for Non-destructive Testing, has
now in charge the presidency of
ICNDT. In this frame, Italy is engaged in reorganisation of ICNDT, giving to it a legal status, a permanent
secretariat, structure and force to solve problems relating to the new scenarios of globalisation. Neither single
country nor regional groups are nolonger to do it!

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The Profhetic Dream of Firenze ’84– to organise semiraries, meetings, conferences, inparticular the European Conference on Non DeTesting (ECNDT), and to publish reFrom European Council for NDT (ECNDT) (Firenze structive
views or proceedings of meetings;
1984) to European Federation for NDT – to undertake studies inside the working groups;(EFNDT) of all the Countries of Geographical – to set up personnel certification european systems, armonizing national systems and assuring
Europe (Copenhagen 1998)
their good performance.
In Copenhagen, during the European ConfeThe organigram of Federarence on NDT (May 25-29, 1998) the repretion provides:
D. Schnitger (Germany)
sentatives of 27 Countries of extended Europe– general assembly, at whiadhered to the foundation of European Federach attend the representatition on NDT (EFNDT) as further scope deveves of the 27 Countries;
On behalf of science and work, the European
lopment of the European Council for NDTCouncil for NDT, which included all European– board of directors;
countries, was established in Florence during(ECNDT) created in Firenze in 1984.
– secretariat;
the 3 European Conference on NDTAfter European Conferences on NDT of Mainz– advisory committee.
(1978) and Vienna (1981), during NDT European
The secretariat has been assigned to German
Conference held in Firenze (1984), the NDT ItaNDT Society (DGZfP).
lian Society (AIPnD) founded the ECNDT (EuThe board of directors, during its first meetingropean Council for NDT) which included all theheld in Copenhagen, also appointed the places whiCountries of geographical Europe.
ch will host next European Conferences on NDT:From then on ECNDT enlarges its activity andBarcelona (June 17-21 2002) and Prague in 2006.
strengthens the relationship among NDT sister
Societies and Institutes.
EFNDT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Futher European Conferences were organizedin London (1987), Nice (1994) and CopenhaPresident
D. Schnitger (DGZfP)
gen (1998) They played a leading role in assuVice-president B. Larsen (Danish Society for NDT)
ring the NDT scientific production continuity
Members
F.X. Deliège (BANT)
and the growth of NDT European Community.
J. Farley (BINDT)In these years, numerous ECNDT meetings weG. Nardoni (AIPnD)
re held. They allowed to focus many problems ofV. Kljouev (RSNTTD)NDT Community and particularly the problem
R. Reisse (COFREND)
of harmonisation of personnel qualification and
V. Krstelj (CrSNDT)Treasurer
E. Romero (AEND)
certification schemes. On this subject in Nice
Secretariat
DGZfP(1994) a memorandum of understanding forMultilateral Recognition of Certification was signed. This agreement has
been acknowledged by the present European Federation during the recent European Conference held in Copenhagen.
The EFNDT, whose constitution will be formalised in the frame ofBelgian legislation, pursues the following aims:– to promote in all European Countries all NDT aspects (technology research and development, information, training, actions devoted to improve quality and reliability of products and services obtainable by NDT);– to contribute to knock down technical barriers;– to act as mouthpiece of NDT Community in Europe, and to favour exchanges and contacts among NDT European Societies and Organizations of other geographical zones;
The members of the Board of Directors of the EFNDT just after the election.
– to attend at meetings, seminaries and conferences organised in coopera(l-r) Deliege (Belgio), Nardoni (Italia), V. Krstelj (Croazia), Schnitger (Germania), Larsen(Danimarca), Klyuev (Russia), Reisse (Francia), Farley (Regno Unito).
tion with competent institutions, especially with European Commission;rd

EVENTSANAHEIM - California
The ASNT’s 1998 Spring Conference
and the 7 th Annual Research Symposium, in conjunction with the 9th AsiaPacific Conference on Non destructive
Testing have been held in Anaheim,
California, last March. Meetings of international level have been held during
the Conference; among these, in great
evidence the meetings of ICNDT Task

P. Sadek, ASNT President.

Group on Harmonisation of certification, of PPCNDT (Pan Pacific Committee for NDT) and ACCP (American
Central Certification Program), that is
considered as the USA first step toward
the certification of qualification tests
according to ISO 9712 and EN 473.
Besides the outstanding certification
scheme based on SNT-TC-1A the new
American Central Certification Program starts its growing to meet ISO
9712 currently adopted by European
countries (according to Berlin Agreement signed on 1997).

TORONTO
Alliance of the Americas
A meeting of ICNDT - PGP (Policy and General Purpose Committee) has
been held on Monday 14 September 1998 in Toronto in conjunction with
the Pan American Conference on NDT.
The ICNDT President Mr Nardoni acting as a chairman and the General Secretary Dr Farley managed the works.
The mutual global recognition for personnel qualification and certification and the new Constitution of ICNDT were the main topics discussed at the meeting. An atmosphere of large convergence of opinion
allowed to make great progress about the above topics.

Members of PGP Committee in Toronto last september.

MINSK - CM NDT ’98

ISRAELIThe Second International Conference on Computer
Methods and Inverse Problems in NDT and Diagnostics
has been held on 20-23 October 1998 in Minsk, the capitalof Belarus.
The themes of inverse problems is a topical subject andwill become more and more interesting for NDT as theapplication of computerised systems to material evaluation
will increase.
More than 100 people attended this conference, mostly
coming from Russia, Bielorussia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, United Stated, Spain and Italy.
This important conference fully met the success, and forthe future it is expected it will become an around theworld moving conference.

The Israeli National Society for Non Destructive Testing(ISRANDT) has been formally established in Tel Aviv lastJune 1998.
Dr Gavriel Shoef has been appointed as Founder President in acknowledgement of its continuous efforts to pursue this goal.
Mr Nardoni in his official capacity of ICNDT President
has been invited at the event and also attended, on theoccasion, the 1st Congress and Conference on NDT organised by ISRANDT. More tha 150 people comingfrom industry, research centres and universities attended
the Conference with visible satisfaction for the successful
event.

Membersof the PGP
Committee
after themeeting
in Anaheim.

From left to right: The President of Israeli Society of Metallurgy; thePresident of Bulgarian NDT Society; the ICNDT President; the Chancellor of Israeli University; Mr Shoef Jr; Mr Shoef Sr President of
ISRANDT.

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ICNDT Presidency
The Italian Society for Nondestructive Testing (AIPnD), as organiser ofthe next World Conference in Rome,
received the ICNDT presidency in
New Delhi on December 1996 by the
Past President Baldev Raj. As a consequence the current ICNDT President Giuseppe
Nardoni throughout the AIPnD, isT. Lüthi
now in charge to(Switzerland)establish the former permanent secretariat of
ICNDT. On behalf of ICNDT, theItalian Presidency formally started its
activity hosting the 25th meeting heldin Copenhagen on 27th May 1998 inconjunction withthe 7 th European
Conferenceon
Nondestructive Testing.
Delegates and observers from 30
countries attended
J. Obraz (Czech Rep.) this meeting.

ICNDT
new CONSTITUTION
President Nardoni
presented a draftof the ICNDTCONSTITUTION to be adopted following revision and final approval by the fullCouncil.

F. Fucsok (Hungary)tion. On the purpose, President
Nardoni asked to those present toprovide two examples of examination
test adopted by own national bodies;

COPENHAGEN ’98 HOST
THE 25 ICNDT MEETING
Presented and discussed the new constitutions of ICNDT
for the 21 Century and future activity
Discussion took place about needs toextend the ICNDT membership to
those Countries till now not represented i.e. Arabians,
Africans and SouthEast Countries. The
role of ICNDT
should be to produce efforts in promoting foundation andgrowing of new
NDT societies in
J.M. Araya
those Countries(Costarica)
where they have not
one yet. A special Task Group has
been constituted for the purpose withMr Marshall acting as a Chairman.

The PGP Committee

ICNDT Activity
The main activities of ICNDT has
been comfirmed to be as the following:• to create a common framework forpersonnel certification schemes, which comply with
ISO 9712, in orderto reach the goalof a MUTUALGLOBAL RECOGNITION;• to establish permanent relations
with standard H. Sana
body like ISO, (Banglades)
CEN, ASME;• to propose research programmes
on specific NDT problems;• to issue recommendations on general purpose subject, i.e. minima requirements of technical knowledge
and examples of practical examina-

The meeting in Copenhagen also
pointed out the usefulness of Policy
and General Purpose Committee(P&GP), formed by honorary
Members from ICNDT, which has in charge to define policies and strategies for
ICNDT. The current P&GP
President is Dr. Raj from India, past President of ICNDT,
meanwhile the secretary is Dr. The partecipants to the PGP Committee meeting in Copenhagen ’98
during the european Conference
Farley from UK.

M.J. Fytos(Greece)

F. Herelli(Tunisia)• to set up a network (via Internet) to
be used to exchange informationand to published notices on
WCNDT/ICNDT.

ICNDTContinental Group
Finally, the international Committee
recognised advantages rising from theconstitution of continental groups likethe Pan American
Committeefor
NDT (PANDT),
the Asian PacificCommitteefor
NDT (APCNDT),
as well as the European Federation for
NDT (EFNDT).
The foundation of
the first nucleo ofMiddle East-Africa
Committee is expected for the 1999.

J. Boogaard(Nederlands)

Maria Gebrael J.A. Conte (Brasil)

ICNDT Constitution key points

Scope
ICNDT is a non profit organisation devoted to the international development of the science and practice of Nondestructive Testing, in conjunction
with individual NDT Societies and recognised Continental groupings of
NDT Societies. ICNDT’s activities are dependent on the voluntary actions of
its Members.

Objectives• To be the international organisation that acts as prime focus on Non-Destructive Testing for the benefit of the involved Community and Public in general.
• To promote international collaboration in all matters relating to NDT.
• To encourage the foundation, growth, development and co-operation of National and regional NDT Societies.
• To assign the place and organisation of the World NDT Conference to an appropriate NDT Society or group of societies, at intervals of four years.
• To establish with Continental groupings of NDT Societies initiatives for implementing ICNDT policy.
• To encourage the formulation of International Standards on Nondestructive
Testing in collaboration with the International Standards Organisation, andother standards bodies.

The ICNDT Secretariat
On behalf of ICNDT, a permanent secretariat is now operating on-site in Brescia-Italy, supported by the Italian Society
for Non-destructive Testing (AIPnD).

Membership

The ICNDT President Mr. G. Nardoni has appointed as protempore Technical Director Mr. Sergio Ghia formerly member of board of directors of AIPnD.

The Members of ICNDT are legally established National NDT Societies and
NDT Societies representing Regions (which may be parts of very large Countries or groups of small Countries), whose applications are accepted by
ICNDT.

Mr. Ghia will manage the secretariat in close collaboration
with the ICNDT President and under the steering of the General Secretary Mr. Farley from UK.

Societies that wish to join the Committee shall make written application to the
President, and their application shall be voted on by the International Committee at its next meeting, following review by a Membership Working Group nominated by the Policy and General Purposes Committee (P&GP).

S. Ghia (Technical
Director of ICNDT)The secretariat will offer assistance, guidance, and advice for any
problems included within the scope of the International Committee for NDT. World-wide membership is invited to contact the ICNDT secretariat by using one of the following:
Fax ++39 030 3739176
E-mail: aipnd@mail. protos.it
Phone ++39 030 3739173
Mail: AIPnD - Via Foresti, 5A - 25127 Brescia (Italy)

All NDT Society are invited to send its legal constitution to ICNDTfor preparing the directory of ICNDT membership.

World Conference on
15
Non-Destructive Testingth

Roma (Italy) - 15-21 October 2000

Roma 2000
15th WCNDT

Major sponsor

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The Conference is hosted
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Easy to reach from each part of Rome.

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The Papal audience. Presentation of
the NDT Community to JOHN
PAUL II

Facilities in the Centro Congressi
Level 0:Travel Agency, Change Office, Bar, Bank etc.

Level +1:

Eight Confecence rooms
ICNDT meeting room, living room for accompaining people.
Bar - Coffee break.
NDT Society stands, Authors meeting rooms, slide Center.

Roof:

View of Rome, green garden with olives trees!
Relaxing area, Sandwich Bar, small restaurant.

The welcome concert in S. Cecilia for the Greetings to partecipants.
Sunday 15 October 2000 time 4 p.m.

The exhibition
2000 square meter available!
1300 square meter already booked.
Do not wait!
Choose your area to exhibit your products!
It will be a real investment for your business.

Authors of technical papers

The visit to S. Peter Basilica walking
through the Holy door open for the Jubileo.

The banquet of the Conference will be held inan ancient villa on Monte Mario hill, Wednes
day 18 October 2000 at 8 p.m.

secretariat of the Conference:

ICNDT

AIPND

G. Nardoni President
Via A. Foresti, 5A - 25127 BRESCIA (Italy)
Tel. ++39 030 3739173 - Fax ++39 030 3739176
personal phone: 0039-348-2280470
E-mail: aipnd@mail.protos.it
home page: http://www.aipnd.it

Authors are called to present title and summary
not later than December 99
Do not wait!
Send your titles and summary as soon as possible!
Eearly submission of titles and abstracts
are highly suggested for a better organisationof the technical programm.

Hello!
Ciao!
Come to Roma!

Italian Society for Non-Destructive Testing
Monitoring Diagnostics
Via A. Foresti, 5 - 25127 BRESCIA (Italy)
Tel. ++39 030 3739173 - Fax ++39 030 3739176
E-mail: aipnd@mail.protos.it
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