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PRESIDENT’S letter
The Art of NDT
AS YOU CAN TELL from my past President’s Letters, I
have always had a love of music. What many of you
may not know is music was not my first love—it was
...I was thrilled to
art. Born into a small family of modest means, my be assigned to the cultural
brother and I would draw for hours. (I can still hear my
dad saying: “Can’t you guys use both sides of the heritage team.
paper?”) I carried this passion for art into my high
school years where I would draw on just about
anything that did not move. and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, “Analysing Art:
So, as a senior in high school, the teachers finally New Technologies - New Applications,” at the State
got tired of me drawing on anything and everything, Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. As the
and they enrolled me in a local junior college as an art curators and scientists went through their presenta-
student. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure if they tions and described the NDT methods used, it was
wanted to develop my art skills or just didn’t want me clear that we now know so much more about these
hanging around the school. works of art after applying NDT. Whether it was the
After becoming a NDT inspector, I thought my art discovery of a valuable painting under another
days were over. However, little did I know that as a NDT painting, or locating a void under the slab of a building
inspector I would be spending time in cities like Paris foundation, this was NDT. No doubt about it!
and Amsterdam where famous artists such as da Vinci Not only was NDT everywhere, so were ASNT
and van Gogh once roamed the streets. When I wasn’t members. I was surprised to see so many of the
working I spent hours looking at their and other artists’ attendees were members of ASNT, and they were
sculptures and paintings. proud to tell me that they were.
I still make it a point to visit as many museums as I I would like to thank the British Institute of Non-
can when I’m on the road. So you can only image how Destructive Testing, the Russian National Society of
happy I was to be named an e-learning expert for a Non-Destructive Testing, Olympus, and others for spon-
four-year project for the International Atomic Energy soring this event. I would also like to thank the
Agency on civil engineering and cultural heritage, and I International Atomic Energy Agency for allowing me to
was thrilled to be assigned to the cultural heritage work on this project, and ASNT for its financial support
team. for this trip. I would also like to thank Roman Maev and
Our team will be gathering information on the NDT Andrey Zagorskiy for their hospitality during that event.
methods and best practices used in cultural heritage I hope during the next workshop, ASNT will see fit
condition monitoring. We will then be developing to help sponsor this event at some level, and I would
e-learning training for those who perform NDT on like to thank everyone involved for allowing me to
cultural heritage specimens. Cultural heritage know once again how it felt to be a young man
specimens can be divided into two groups: movable surrounded by the world of art.
objects, such as paintings and smaller sculptures, and
larger immovable objects, such as large sculptures and
historic buildings. DAV ID A . M A N DIN A
Recently, I was asked to attend the 2017–2018 ASNT President
2nd International Workshop on Preservation president@asnt.org

DIRECTOR’S letter
See You in Houston
GREETINGS! This month’s Materials Evaluation highlights the ASNT Annual Conference
taking place in Houston, Texas, on 28–31 October. You will likely read this issue just
before attending or while at the conference. Because of that, I wanted to personally call
out specific activities of which you should be aware.
The ASNT Annual Conference is the largest annual gathering of NDT professionals,
researchers, suppliers, and stakeholders. There is no other annual NDT event of our size
and programming where attendees are able to choose from almost 90 hours of presenta-
tions and networking opportunities carefully selected and produced for their timeliness,
relevance for personal and professional growth, and contribution to the body of NDT Your
knowledge.
As the largest conference, we attract attendees from around the world. The leadership attendance at
of international NDT societies make it a point to be at this conference each year to meet
with sister societies and share their respective news. The scheduled International Forum
the 2018 ASNT
and International Reception provide deliberate spaces for ASNT to recognize those Annual
attendees who travel from over 45 countries in support of ASNT. The ASNT Annual
Conference is the single time that many of the international coalitions conduct meetings Conference will
each year, including, among others, the Pan-American Conference for Nondestructive
Testing (PANNDT), Asia Pacific Federation for Non Destructive Testing (APFNDT), and be rewarding
executive committee for the International Committee for Non-destructive Testing (ICNDT).
The Annual Business Meeting and Town Hall will occur on Sunday, 28 October this
and the single
year. I strongly encourage each of you to attend these important presentations and best investment
discussions. This is your opportunity to see and hear about the successes of ASNT
through a retrospective view and look ahead at the opportunities for the Society. I of your time.
mentioned in last month’s letter that ASNT ISC senior staff members will discuss ASNT’s
role in the recent award of a National Science Foundation grant during the Town Hall. You
will be encouraged and inspired at the strides ASNT is taking to broaden awareness for
NDT. Another organization making tremendous impact in connecting NDT students with
internships and exposure to unique work experiences is the American Aerospace
Technical Academy (AATA). John Stewart, AATA executive director, will share the time at
the Town Hall to discuss how his organization creates partnerships with local, state, and
federal programs. You should definitely plan to be in the room to hear about these
exciting happenings for the NDT industry.
ASNT committees and councils meet during the Annual Conference also. These
focused work groups are member-driven vehicles that, in unison, keep ASNT moving
forward. I cannot impress upon you enough the importance of your participation in a
committee or council. No matter your personal or professional interests, there is a space
for you to collaborate and be part of the future of NDT. Never think we already have
enough help. Your voice matters and we want to hear it. While onsite at the conference,
do not hesitate to stop and ask an ASNT staff member, board member, officer,
committee/council member, or myself about how you can get involved.

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ASNT’s Day of STEM will be on Monday, 29 October. Almost The keynote address by four-time Olympian Ruben Gonzalez,
100 Houston-area high school students and educators will be the Annual Banquet, the 2018 Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture, and the
onsite at the conference to learn about NDT through hands-on Plenary Lecture are among the many other activities I didn’t
activities, presentations, and tours of the exhibit hall. We were all specifically mention above but should not be missed. Your atten-
that age not too long ago (I’m still a kid at heart). Remember how dance at the 2018 ASNT Annual Conference will be rewarding and
uncertain the future felt? Your pleasant disposition, smile, and the single best investment of your time for networking and
helpful words when the STEM participants are onsite could leave knowledge at one event.
an impression that may encourage one or more of them to pursue I look forward to seeing you at the conference. As always, feel
NDT as a career. We all know that we are nearing a gap in the free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns.
workforce. We should take advantage and seek out every opportu-
nity we have to reach out and lift up young people and those in DR. ARNOLD “ARNY” BERESON
transition to choose NDT. ASNT Executive Director
abereson@asnt.org
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Chair Derek Barbadillo proposed that new
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The Hawaii Section held its quarterly should be given to current program year
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SECTION HIGHLIGHT
The Acadiana
Section presented
a $500 scholarship
to Christopher
Reynolds, of Baton
Rouge Community
College’s
nondestructive
testing program,
at its February
meeting.
Acadiana Section Membership Director Ethen J. Dupuis (left) presented a $500 scholarship
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Don’t Miss the Annual
ASNT Business Meeting
and Town Hall Discussion
The annual ASNT Business Meeting
and Town Hall are valuable opportu-
nities to be an active participant in
the future of your Society. Don’t miss
these chances to let your voice be
heard. Join fellow members and
elected representatives at the
Annual Conference in Houston,
Texas, on Sunday, 28 October 2018
at the Marriott Marquis Houston
Hotel (connected to the George R.
Brown Convention Center) in
Houston Salon IV. The Business
Meeting will take place from 2:00 to
3:00 p.m., and the Town Hall will
immediately follow, concluding at
Attendees of the Hawaii Section’s 7 June meeting (from left): Jeff Goff, Section Chair Derek 4:30 p.m.
Barbadillo, Jarrett Y. Sano, Section Treasurer Jack R. Laws, Section Director Jayme J. Martin,
and Jeremy Link. Call for Abstracts
ASNT is currently seeking abstracts
for the 2019 ASNT Research
proposal. Section Director Jayme J. Martin Ohio. Though thunderstorms came through Symposium to be held in Garden
is finalizing the newsletter, and a distribu- at about the halfway point, no one let it Grove, California, on 1–4 April, and
tion list for recipients is being generated. dampen their spirits. Attendees had a great the 15th International Symposium
time and a fabulous dinner. The Section on Nondestructive Characterization
Miami Valley would like to thank the following sponsors of Materials, to be held in Portorož,
C I N C I N N AT I , O H I O for providing door prizes: the American Slovenia, on 17–19 September
The Miami Valley Section met on 1 June for Institute for Non-destructive Testing (AINDT), 2019. To be considered, the
its annual season-ending golf outing. The American Testing Services, A-Lab Corp., deadline for the Research
event had 32 golfers who enjoyed the Sherwin Inc., Magna NDT LLC, Test Equipment Symposium is 15 October 2018 and
Heatherwoode Golf Course in Springboro, Distributors, and The Modal Shop Inc. the deadline for the International
Symposium is 1 February 2019. For
more information and to submit
abstracts, visit the ASNT website at
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The Miami Valley Section held its season-ending golf outing on 1 June at the Heatherwoode
Golf Course in Springboro, Ohio.

section news
Attendees of the Mohawk Hudson Section’s 5 June meeting at the Van Dyck Restaurant &
Lounge.
Mohawk Hudson Pacific Northwest

S C H E N E C T A D Y, N E W Y O R K SE ATT L E , WA S H I N GTO N
The Mohawk Hudson Section held a board The Pacific Northwest Section held a
meeting on 5 June at the Van Dyck meeting on 16 May at the Blue Origin
Restaurant & Lounge. Nine members were factory with 24 in attendance. Section
in attendance, including Regional Director, members Kathy L. Ferguson, Matt K.
Region 2, Lawrence E. Mullins Sr. The Mead, and William D. Meade organized a
5 June Section board meeting was held to tour of the Blue Origin factory for the NDT
discuss the 2017–2018 program, possible students currently attending Clover Park
topics for the 2018–2019 year program, Technical College. The tour began with an
officers and board members selection, inspiring video presentation about the
website status, and budget status. Based history of the various spaceships Blue Origin
on the discussions and the election that has built and is currently building. Multiple
followed, this year’s officers and board Blue Origin NDT technicians and engineers
members will continue on for the next gave presentations and demonstrations
year. David A. Miles was added to the about the work they do in ultrasonic testing,
board of directors. liquid penetrant testing, radiographic
testing, and computed tomography.
Kathy L. Ferguson, Pacific Northwest Section Chair (center, wearing green), welcomed Clover
Park Technical College NDT students and faculty to the Blue Origin factory tour, held by the
Section on 16 May.
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Attendees of the Saudi Arabian Section’s 25 June meeting at the Carlton Al Moaibed Hotel Dammam.
San Diego Denise L. McKay, outgoing Section chair. Saudi Arabian

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA
McKay presented on the state of the
On 9 June, the San Diego Section hosted Section and the accomplishments made The Saudi Arabian Section held a dinner
its ninth Section meeting and “Change of during the 2017–2018 program year. She meeting on 25 June at the Carlton Al
Gavel” for the 2017–2018 program year. then passed the gavel to incoming Section Moaibed Hotel Dammam. The meeting was
The meeting was held at the 94th Aero Chair Ramon Thomson. A review of the attended by 90 members and nonmem-
Squadron Restaurant in San Diego, new officers and board members was bers, including guests from the Bahrain
California, with 15 members and guests in discussed, as well as the responsibilities Society of Engineers. Section Past Chair
attendance. The speaker for this event was of each officer and board member. Fathi E. Al Qadeeb welcomed everybody to

section news
Attendees of the Shanghai Section’s meeting on 3 July, which featured several presentations.
the meeting and introduced Section Chair Nondestructive Evaluation/Testing in African Qualifications Authority accredited
Abdullah M. Al Khalifah, who distributed Xiamen City. It was reported that 800 NDT qualification, which should come into
appreciation awards to the five companies people attended the conference. Both place in the next few months in South
who sponsored the Section’s monthly Kinsey and Basrawi encouraged Chinese Africa. There was a good turnout, and
meetings and handed out Eid greetings NDT experts, technicians, and students to everyone enjoyed the usual pizza.
and gifts to all attendees. get ASNT certification and attend a The Section held its first board
Shanghai Section meeting. meeting of the 2018–2019 year on
Shanghai 17 July, at SANDE. The new board
SHANGHAI, CHINA Southern Africa members are all excited about their
The Shanghai Section held a meeting on JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA upcoming projects and vision for the
3 July. The meeting was attended by The Southern Africa Section held a very Section. Topics on the agenda included
50 members and guests. Regional informative technical meeting on 19 June technical meeting ideas, career outreach
Director, Region 19, Marwan F. Basrawi at the School of Applied Non Destructive and educational projects, ACCP exams,
was invited to give a speech about NDT in Examination (SANDE) in Impala Park, and upgrading the website. For the first
the Middle East. Section Chair Ji Jingyuan Boksburg. Garth D. Appel, manager of the time, there are now two women holding
and Regional Director, Region 19, John J. South African Institute for Non-Destructive officer positions on the Section’s board.
Kinsey greeted everyone in attendance Testing (SAINT) Professional Body for NDT, w
x
and thanked them for supporting the gave a presentation on the new South
Section. The meeting was hosted by Yxlon
International. Ten presentations were
given.
On 4 July, Basrawi and Kinsey attended
a meeting held at the Chinese Society for
NDT (ChSNDT). Basrawi gave a brief intro-
duction about NDT in the Middle East and
the development of ASNT Region 19.
Jingyuan gave Basrawi a tour of the
computer-based testing (CBT) room, where
ASNT Level III examinations are held, and
of the practical examination rooms. Kinsey
announced the new regulations of the CBT
retake examinations, and he also
discussed organizing more ASNT section
meetings in other areas of China with the
board members of the Shanghai Section.
On 6 July, Basrawi and Kinsey attended The Southern Africa Section held a meeting on 19 June that included a presentation from
the International Far East Forum on Garth D. Appel (standing).
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ASNT Sections: 2017-2018 in Review
Meetings
Meetings by
Method
RT 38%
UT 25%
ET 14%
459 meetings were held in AE
GW
7%
5%
14 countries by 63 sections
MT 4%
between 1 July 2017 - 30 June 2018. IR 2%
LM 2%
Countries with active ASNT sections:
PT 2%
Canada, China, Germany, India, Kuwait,
Mexico, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, LT 1%
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,
United States, Qatar, and South Africa
Section Outreach
Sections distributed To further encourage

more than NDT education,
2400
career promotion
$21 250
in scholarships
materials to students
were awarded to
ranging from
elementary school
through college. 31 students. Sections participated in 22 career days,
STEM days, engineering events, and science fair judging.
Volunteer Leaders Network
383 member volunteers led active sections. 25% volunteers were first-time section leaders. 37 websites
17 Facebook pages
1 LinkedIn page
3 active on Twitter
For more information on

8 3 18 upcoming ASNT section
activities, please visit
29 sections achieved President’s Award recognition. asnt.org/sections.

awards & honors
Fellowship Award this, he was an assistant project scientist
at the University of California, San Diego.
He received a Ph.D. in structural engi-
neering from the University of California,
San Diego, in 2007. He also received a
doctorate of research in mechanics of
structures from the University of Bologna
UNIBO in Bologna, Italy. Among other
awards, he has been the recipient of an
ASNT Faculty Grant Award in 2011 and an
ASNT Fellowship Award in 2014.
Peyman Aminpour is an experienced

graduate researcher in the department of
Kurt Sjoblom Ivan Bartoli Peyman Aminpour
Drexel University Drexel University Drexel University civil, architectural, and environmental engi-
neering at Drexel University, and has been
a doctoral fellow since 2016. He received a
B.S. degree in structural engineering from
Yazd University in Yazd, Iran, in 2013, and
an M.S. degree in geotechnical earthquake
engineering from the International Institute
of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
(IIEES) in Tehran, Iran, in 2016. Prior to
joining Drexel University, he was a
researcher and teaching assistant at IIEES
from 2013, and an instructor in civil and
Laurence J. Jacobs Katherine M. Scott environmental engineering at Yazd
Georgia Institute of Georgia Institute of University from 2011 to 2013. His research
Technology Technology interests in civil engineering are in the
areas of multiscale modeling, molecular
dynamics, simulation of granular
ASNT Fellowship Awards the director of laboratory services for CDM materials, particle engineering, finite
2017 winner Drexel University will receive Inc. from 2001 to 2005. He received his element analysis, geotechnical, and struc-
an ASNT Fellowship Award for proposed B.S. in geology from the State University of tural engineering and structural analysis.
research titled “Identification of Water Pipe New York (SUNY) Oneonta, an M.S.E. from Aminpour’s doctoral research focuses
Material Based on Stress Wave West Virginia University, and a Ph.D. in particularly on multiscale investigation of
Propagation.” The project advisors are Kurt civil engineering from the Massachusetts particulate materials and molecular
Sjoblom and Ivan Bartoli, and the Institute of Technology. In addition to dynamics simulations, and he has been an
graduate student is Peyman Aminpour. ASNT, Sjoblom is an associate member of investigator on a research program in
the American Society of Civil Engineers. multiscale investigation of thixotropy in
Kurt Sjoblom is an assistant professor in soft clays, sponsored by the US National
the department of civil, architectural, and Ivan Bartoli is an associate professor in Science Foundation (NSF). Also, he has
environmental engineering of the College the department of civil, architectural, and been involved in research at Drexel
of Engineering at Drexel University. He has environmental engineering of the College University, where he developed a large-
also been a private consultant, and was of Engineering at Drexel University. Before scale simulation of a novel recycled
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foamed glass aggregate for use in geotech- Engineers (ASME), and currently on the or co-PI on $6 million worth of contracts
nical engineering. He was a research fellow editorial board of NDT & E International. since 1990. Jacobs has an established
at the International Institute of Earthquake Jacobs’s research has been funded by record of recruiting and advising students,
Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) in multiple federal and state government including 17 Ph.D. students and 65 M.S.
Tehran, Iran, where he developed an agencies and private industry/companies. thesis students.
advanced two-dimensional spectral finite He has been the principal investigator (PI)
element code to investigate the seismic
linear response of alluvial valleys in site-
effect microzonation studies. He is also an
active researcher in geotechnical and
earthquake engineering and has authored
papers in these areas.
2018 winner Georgia Institute of

Technology will receive an ASNT
Fellowship Award for proposed research
titled “Development of a Comparison
Model between Second Harmonic
Generation and Nonlinear Resonant
Ultrasound Spectroscopy to Improve
Material Characterization.” The project
advisor is Laurence J. Jacobs, and the
graduate student is Katherine M. Scott.
Laurence J. Jacobs is the associate dean

for academic affairs of the College of
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of
Technology (Georgia Tech), and professor
of civil and environmental engineering and
mechanical engineering. Jacobs received
his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from
Columbia University and joined the faculty
of Georgia Tech in 1988. Prior to receiving
his Ph.D., he worked for two years in the
aerospace industry and for one year as a
structural engineer. Jacobs’s research
focuses on the development of quantita-
tive methodologies for the nondestructive
evaluation and life prediction of structural
materials. This includes the application of
nonlinear ultrasound for the characteriza-
tion of fatigue, creep, stress-corrosion,
thermal embrittlement, and radiation
damage in metals. His work in cement-
based materials includes the application
of linear and nonlinear ultrasonic tech-
niques to quantify microstructure and
progressive microcracking in concrete.
Jacobs has published over 120
refereed journal papers. He is a Fellow of
the American Society of Mechanical

awards & honors
Committee on Advanced Materials and
Fellowship Award Structures of the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE).
Simon Laflamme is an associate professor

at Iowa State University and the associate
director of the Center for Nondestructive
Evaluation. He received a Ph.D. in struc-
tures and materials from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jin Yan is currently a Ph.D. student in the

department of civil, construction, and envi-
An Chen Simon Laflamme Jin Yan
ronment engineering at Iowa State
Iowa State University Iowa State University Iowa State University
University. She is currently working on an
algorithm enabling large-scale structural
health monitoring and multifunctional
sensor development. Yan received an M.S.
in civil and environmental engineering
from the Georgia Institute of Technology in
2016, and a bachelor of civil engineering
degree from the Central South University
in 2015.
2018 winner Portland State University will

receive an ASNT Fellowship Award for
Thomas Schumacher Jason H. Ideker Ali Hafiz
Portland State University Portland State University Portland State University proposed research titled “Early Detection
of ASR Deterioration in Laboratory
Concrete Specimens Using Full-Waveform
Ultrasonic Monitoring.” The project
advisors are Thomas Schumacher and
Katherine M. Scott is currently a Ph.D. nuclear reactor pressure vessels. Scott is a Jason H. Ideker, and the graduate student
student in mechanical engineering at the recipient of the Integrated University is Ali Hafiz.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Scott Program fellowship from the Nuclear
received her B.S. in mechanical engi- Energy University Program and the Thomas Schumacher is an associate
neering from Georgia Tech in 2014 and her President’s Fellowship from Georgia Tech. professor in the field of structural engi-
M.S. with thesis in mechanical engineering neering at Portland State University. After
from Georgia Tech in 2016. Her thesis work 2018 winner Iowa State University will earning his undergraduate degree at the
focused on the use of nonlinear ultrasound receive an ASNT Fellowship Award for Bern University of Applied Sciences,
to monitor copper precipitate growth in iron- proposed research titled “Surface Sensing- Switzerland, in 2000, he worked as a
copper surrogate specimens. Based Technique for Nondestructive structural and project engineer for a
Scott’s research interests include the Evaluation and Prediction in Additive consulting firm for five years. He left
use of nondestructive evaluation tech- Manufacturing.” The project advisors are design practice in 2004 to expand his
niques to characterize and predict damage An Chen and Simon Laflamme, and the education abroad and earned M.S. and
in materials. These techniques include the graduate student is Jin Yan. Ph.D. degrees from Oregon State University
nonlinear ultrasound techniques of second in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
harmonic generation and nonlinear An Chen is an assistant professor of civil, Schumacher is a licensed professional
resonance ultrasound spectroscopy to construction, and environmental engi- engineer in the state of Delaware and an
characterize damage from irradiation, neering and civil engineering at Iowa State active member of the American Concrete
sensitization, and precipitate growth. Her University. He received a Ph.D. in materials Institute (ACI); as of spring 2018, he is the
Ph.D. work has focused on metal surrogate and structures from West Virginia chair of ACI Committee 444–Structural
specimens that simulate damage in University. He is the vice chair of the Health Monitoring and Instrumentation.
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Schumacher’s primary research
interests are in the area of nondestructive
evaluation of civil infrastructure. In partic-
Fellowship Award
ular, he is interested in stress wave and
vibration-based techniques such as
acoustic emission and ultrasonic moni-
toring and impulse response testing.
Additionally, he has been collaborating
with faculty at the University of Delaware
to develop a novel distributed carbon
nanotube–based sensor, and he is inter-
ested in video-based sensing techniques
to remotely monitor structural motion. His
Salvatore Salamone Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou
additional research interests include the
University of Texas at University of Texas at
behavior and durability of concrete struc- Austin Austin
tures, structures subject to extreme events,
bridge engineering, data analysis and
signal processing, and asset management. area of nondestructive evaluation and made an outstanding contribution to the
structural health monitoring of civil infra- advancement of the field of structural
Jason H. Ideker is an associate professor in structure with a focus on concrete struc- health monitoring. Salamone also received
the School of Civil and Construction tures. In particular, he is interested in an ASNT Faculty Grant Award in 2011.
Engineering (CCE) at Oregon State stress wave and vibration-based methods. Salamone serves on several technical
University. He joined the faculty in committees, including the ASCE Structural
September of 2008, and in 2010 was 2018 winner University of Texas at Austin Health Monitoring and Control and ASME
recognized as the inaugural Kearny Faculty will receive an ASNT Fellowship Award for Ultrasonics for Mechanical Systems
Fellow in CCE. Ideker received his Ph.D. proposed research titled “MEWR – A Bio- committees. He serves as a panelist and
from the University of Texas at Austin in Inspired Probabilistic Framework for reviewer for the National Science
2008 in civil engineering. He also holds an Structural Health Monitoring of Complex Foundation, the US Department of Energy,
M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Structures.” The project advisor is the US Department of Transportation,
Austin (2004) and a B.S. in civil engi- Salvatore Salamone, and the student is NASA, the Chilean National Science
neering from the Georgia Institute of Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou. Foundation, South Africa’s National
Technology in Atlanta, Georgia (2002). His Research Foundation, and over 45 scien-
primary research interests are alkali-silica Salvatore Salamone is an associate tific journals. He serves on the editorial
reaction in cement-based materials, professor in the department of civil, archi- board of Structural Monitoring and
concrete durability, early-age properties of tectural, and environmental engineering at Maintenance: An International Journal,
concrete and the pursuit of high-perfor- University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Before Acoustics, and Mathematical Problems in
mance civil engineering materials. He is joining UT, Salamone was an assistant Engineering.
also an internationally recognized expert in professor at the University at Buffalo
calcium aluminate cements and ettringite (SUNY), and a postdoctoral fellow at the Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou is a Ph.D. candidate
accelerated systems. He sits on the University of California, San Diego. His in the department of civil, architectural,
Executive Committee of ASTM C09 and is current research interests include struc- and environmental engineering at the
secretary of ASTM C09.50 Alkali Aggregate tural health monitoring, nondestructive University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his
Reactions in Concrete. evaluation, ultrasonic sensing methods for graduate studies, he earned his bachelor’s
smart structures, wave propagation in degree in civil engineering with the highest
Ali Hafiz earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees solids, digital signal processing, and honors from Sharif University of Technology.
in structural engineering from the pattern recognition. He has published over Ebrahimkhanlou’s current research in the
University of Technology, Iraq, and 140 referred journal articles and confer- area of structural engineering focuses on
Portland State University in 2003 and ence publications. His research contribu- nondestructive evaluation and structural
2009, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. tions have been recognized by the 2014 health monitoring of civil, mechanical, and
candidate in the civil and environmental Achenbach Medal, an international award aerospace structures. Ebrahimkhanlou is
engineering department at Portland State that recognizes an individual who, within highly specialized in wave propagation,
University. His research interests are in the 10 years of earning his/her Ph.D., has machine learning, data analysis, signal

Participate
Participate in American
National Standards awards & honors
Development
ASNT’s Standards Development processing, uncertainty quantification, Fellowship funding can be up to
Committee (SDC) develops ASNT’s and computer vision. His Ph.D. work $20 000 per award for a maximum of five
standards, including ANSI/ASNT investigates the patterns of acoustic awards per year. Only one application per
CP-106: Nondestructive Testing — wave propagation in structures and faculty member will be accepted. Funds
Qualification and Certification of leverages them to diagnose and will be made available for the autumn
Personnel, ANSI/ASNT CP-105; ASNT characterize structural defects. In partic- 2019 term.
Standard Training Outlines of ular, Ebrahimkhanlou has developed Contact Program Coordinator Jessica
Nondestructive Testing Personnel. reliable monitoring systems for airplanes, Ames at the ASNT International Service
ANSI/ASNT CP-189: ASNT Standard prestressed bridges, containment struc- Center for additional information at (800)
for Qualification and Certification of tures, concrete buildings, and pipelines. 222-2768 X233 or by email at
Nondestructive Testing Personnel and The results of Ebrahimkhanlou’s awards@asnt.org.
ANSI/ASNT ILI-PQ: In-line Inspection research have been published in nine
Personnel Qualification and highly cited journal papers and 14 confer- ASNT Fellowship Papers
Certification. ence articles. In addition, he has filed one Published
If you wish to join the SDC and provisional patent application.
participate in the development of Ebrahimkhanlou has served as a reviewer This issue of Materials Evaluation contains
American National Standards, for several top-tier journals and has served two papers written with the assistance of
contact SDC Secretary Charles as a conference session chair and program ASNT Fellowship Awards, including papers
Longo at clongo@asnt.org. More organizer to multiple conferences. In addition from Iowa State University (p. 1395) and
information is available at to ASNT, Ebrahimkhanlou is an active North Carolina State University (p. 1405).
asnt.org/publications/ member of several professional societies,
standards/standards.htm. including SPIE, ASCE, ASME, the Earthquake Robert B. Oliver Scholarship
Engineering Research Institute, the Institute Entries Solicited
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the
American Concrete Institute, and the Applications are being accepted for the
Patents American Institute of Steel Construction. 2019 Robert B. Oliver ASNT Scholarship,
which memorializes ASNT Fellow, Honorary
Have you been awarded a About the ASNT Fellowship Award Member, and Past President Robert B.
patent? Oliver. Up to three $2500 scholarships are
The ASNT Fellowship Award is a cash awarded to students submitting the best
If you have recently been granted a
award granted to an educational institu- original papers about nondestructive testing
new patent by a government patent tion to fund specific research in nonde- research, investigation, or development.
office, we invite you to let us know structive testing at the postgraduate (M.S. Eligible students include those who
about it. We are looking for patents or Ph.D.) level. Academic institutions with are currently enrolled in an NDT program
that describe innovations in the graduate educational research programs leading to an undergraduate degree,
science and practice of nondestruc- are invited to submit proposals each year. associate degree, or postsecondary
tive testing. You can send a few The award is made during the following certificate.
paragraphs describing the invention Annual Conference. Applications must include an original
and its range of applications, and a The nomination deadline for the 2019 and a copy of each of the following:
copy of the patent document (or if it ASNT Fellowship Award is 15 October l student manuscript
2018 (a notice was previously published in l student transcript
was issued by the United States
the September 2018 issue of Materials l the NDT curriculum currently being
Patent and Trademark Office, you
Evaluation). Proposals should include the followed
can just give us the patent number).
proposed program or graduate study l letter from instructor or school official to
Email to ndeguy@yahoo.com with activity, the names of faculty and students verify student’s enrollment in an NDT
“ASNT M.E. New Patents” in the involved, and how the Fellowship will be program.
subject line. managed. Information on the equipment Applications are due by 15 February
For more information on the available for use on campus and the 2019. Contact Program Coordinator Jessica
patents, go to the US Patent and amount and qualification of faculty Ames at the ASNT International Service
support should be included. Center for additional information at (800)
Trademark Office website at
222-2768 X233 or by email at
uspto.gov.
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President’s Award
2017–2018 President’s Award Results
The ASNT sections achieving the gold level points this program year are Chicago,
Greater Houston, Greater Los Angeles, Miami Valley, Old Dominion, Pacific
Northwest, San Diego, and Saudi Arabian. These sections were chaired by Chuck
Johnson; Rick D. Arnett; Robert M. Fenton; Lisa M. Price; Doug A. McAvoy, Jr.;
Kathy L. Ferguson; Denise L. McKay; and Abdullah M. Al Khalifah, respectively.
Congratulations to these sections.
Participating sections will be recognized during the awards banquet at the
ASNT Annual Conference in Houston, Texas.
The President’s Award Program is based on point values assigned to various
management or operation categories. The categories and point values are estab-
lished by the SOC Awards Division and reflect section activities important to the
section and the Society. Regardless of the size of your section, points within each
category are attainable. Tell your section leadership to get involved with the
President’s Award Program and get special recognition for your section. A
maximum of 14 750 points could be earned in the 2017–2018 program.
The point levels are:
l Gold: 10 501 – 14 750
l Silver: 8001 – 10 500
l Bronze: 5500 – 8000
Congratulations to all participating section and members for their efforts.
We hope all sections participate in this program during 2018–2019. Visit asnt.org/
presaward for more information regarding the President’s Award Program.
Gold, Silver, and Bronze Sections

Section Level
Chicago Gold
Greater Houston Gold
Greater Los Angeles Gold
Miami Valley Gold
Old Dominion Gold
Pacific Northwest Gold
San Diego Gold
Saudi Arabian Gold
Charlotte Silver
Rockford Stateline Silver
United Arab Emirates Silver
Acadiana Bronze
Capital of Texas Bronze
Central Savannah River Area Bronze
Cleveland Bronze
Colorado Bronze
Connecticut Yankee Bronze
Hampton Roads Bronze
India Bronze
Lewis & Clark Bronze
Mohawk Hudson Bronze
Narragansett Bay Bronze
North Alabama Bronze
North Atlantic Bronze
Northern New England Bronze
Piedmont Bronze
Pittsburgh Bronze
South Texas Bronze
Southern Africa Bronze
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awards & honors
ASNT Award Winners

ASNT Fellow Recognition “Development of a Comparison Model Between Second
A Fellow of ASNT is an individual member of the Society Harmonic Generation and Nonlinear Resonant
who has demonstrated outstanding professional distinction
Ultrasound Spectroscopy to Improve Material
and who has made continued significant contributions to
Characterization”
the advancement of NDT in areas such as research and Georgia Institute of Technology
development, applications, teaching and/or management. Atlanta, Georgia
Trey Gordon James Knowles Laurence J. Jacobs Katherine M. Scott

Renton, Washington Warrington, United Kingdom Professor Student
“Surface Sensing-Based Technique for Nondestructive

ASNT Fellowship Award Evaluation and Prediction in Additive Manufacturing”
The ASNT Fellowship provides financial support to an Iowa State University
educational institution to fund specific research in NDT at Ames, Iowa
the postgraduate level (M.S. or Ph.D.).
“Identification of Water Pipe Material Based on

Stress Wave Propagation”
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An Chen Simon Laflamme Jin Yan

Professor Professor Student
“Early Detection of ASR Deterioration in Laboratory Concrete

Specimens Using Full-Waveform Ultrasonic Monitoring”
Portland State University
Kurt Sjoblom Ivan Bartoli Portland, Oregon
Professor Professor
Thomas Schumacher Jason H. Ideker Ali Hafiz

Peyman Aminpour Professor Professor Student
Student
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“MEWR – A Bio-Inspired Probabilistic Framework for Advancement of Women in NDT Recognition
Structural Health Monitoring of Complex Structures” The Advancement of Women in NDT Recognition identifies individ-
uals or organizations who encourage women to enter and thrive
University of Texas at Austin
in the field of NDT, either through creation and/or implementation
Austin, Texas
of programs that provide educational or career advancement
opportunities in NDT that may not otherwise be available to
women or through leading by example of how women can not
only have a career in NDT but also contribute greatly to NDT,
ASNT, and creating a safer world.
Salvatore Salamone Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou

Professor Student
Kathy L. Ferguson
The Boeing Co.
Woodinville, Washington
Advancement of Active Military and

Veterans in NDT Recognition Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service
The Advancement of Active Military and Veterans in NDT
Recognition identifies individuals or organizations who
Recognition
The Charles N. Sherlock Meritorious Service Recognition provides
encourage active military and veterans to enter and thrive in
recognition for an individual’s outstanding voluntary service to
the field of NDT, either through creation and/or implementa-
the Society, through single or aggregate activities, though not
tion of programs that provide educational or career advance-
necessarily in any single year. In 2004, the award was renamed
ment opportunities in NDT that may not otherwise be
in honor of its first recipient, Charles N. Sherlock.
available to active military and veterans or through leading
by example of how active military and veterans can not only
have a career in NDT but also contribute greatly to NDT,
ASNT, and creating a safer world.
Marwan F. Basrawi
DiTECHT Science &
Technology Consultancy
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jeffrey A. Wagner
NDT Quality Assurance LLC
The Woodlands, Texas
This year’s award winners will be recognized at the ASNT Annual

Conference during the Awards Banquet, held Tuesday
30 October 2018. See Materials Evaluation’s monthly “Awards and
Honors” department (pp. 1270–1272 in this issue) for biographies
and more information on ASNT’s awards programs.

awards & honors
Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship George L. Pherigo Tutorial Citation

The Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship was created to provide an incentive to In view of the important role of education in
engineering undergraduate students enrolled in engineering programs at US advancing the purpose of ASNT, the George L.
universities and colleges to choose NDT as their field of specialization. Pherigo Tutorial Citation gives recognition to
outstanding contributors to the field of NDT
education. Recipients of the citation are
selected for their accomplishments in, or
furtherance of, educational activities designed
to increase the depth and breadth of scientific,
engineering, and technical knowledge in the
field of NDT. In 2010, the award was renamed in
honor of George L. Pherigo, who dedicated his
life to NDT education.
Sarah Sandler Melanie Schneider David Zabel
Clemson University University of New Mexico North Carolina State
Clemson, South Carolina Albuquerque, New University
Mexico Raleigh, North Carolina
Faculty Grant
The Faculty Grant provides financial incentive to faculty members of
Robert W. Smilie
engineering programs at US universities and colleges to either revise
Istrouma Enterprises Inc.
existing courses or to develop new courses to teach NDT/NDE.
Salisbury, North Carolina
Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture

ASNT established the Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture to
recognize individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to the science of NDT. Such contribu-
tions may be in the area of research, applications
technology, management, education, equipment
Aleksander Vakanski Lee Ostrom development, or other related areas. The
David Eisenmann
University of Idaho, University of Idaho, Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture was established in
Iowa State University
Idaho Falls Idaho Falls memory of the impacts made to NDT by Horace H.
Ames, Iowa
Idaho Falls, Idaho Idaho Falls, Idaho Lester and Robert F. Mehl.
George C. Wheeler Excellence in Personnel Certification

Recognition
The George C. Wheeler Excellence in Personnel Certification Recognition recog-
nizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the development
and advancement of professionalism of ASNT’s programs for the qualification
and certification of personnel for NDT. This recognition honors George C. Wheeler, Glenn M. Light
ASNT past president, honorary member, and former senior manager of technical Light NDE Consulting
services at the International Service Center, whose main initiatives were based on San Antonio, Texas
certification practices as well as improving the Society through change.
John J. Kinsey
TRC Solutions
Pudong New City, China
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Mentoring Award Outstanding Paper Recognition
The Mentoring Award was established to recognize The purpose of the Outstanding Paper Recognition is to encourage a high
those people in the Society working to encourage degree of effort toward technical, educational, or managerial achievement
others to reach goals they may have otherwise not in NDT through publication in Materials Evaluation and Research in
sought and to offer the rest of the membership an Nondestructive Evaluation (RNDE). Recipients of the recognition are
example of what they could accomplish by acting as selected on the merit of written contributions published during the
mentors. previous calendar year. Selection is based equally on the material’s origi-
nality, usefulness, and clarity, and on the appropriateness and accuracy of
its supporting material.
Outstanding Paper Recognition, Materials Evaluation

“Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Testing of Rails: Experimental Prototype and Finite
Element Simulations”
Mohammed A. AbuFour Jennifer Anaya

Aramco Alloyweld Inspection
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Co. Inc.
Bensenville, Illinois
Stefano Mariani Francesco Lanza di Thompson V. Nguyen

Imperial College Scalea University of California,
London University of San Diego
London, United California, San Diego La Jolla, California
Kingdom La Jolla, California (Not Pictured)
Outstanding Paper Recognition, RNDE

Anish Poudel Timothy S. Roach
Transportation Tenaris “Absolute Measurement and Relative Measurement of Ultrasonic Nonlinear
Technology Center Inc. Rosenberg, Texas Parameters”
Pueblo, Colorado
Jongbeom Kim Dong-Gi Song Kyung-Young Jhang
Hanyang University Hanyang University Hanyang University
Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea
(Not Pictured) (Not Pictured) (Not Pictured)
Marvin W. Trimm
Savannah River National
Laboratory
Clarks Hill, South
Carolina

awards & honors
Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Young NDT Professional Recognition

Recognition The purpose of the Young NDT Professional Recognition is to recognize
The Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Recognition acknowl- individuals whose initial career contributions exemplify high standards
edges longtime members of the Society for outstanding of excellence in the areas of professional achievement and meritorious
eminence in the field of nondestructive testing. In 1990, this service. The recognition is given to supervisors, educators, managers,
recognition was renamed in honor of Philip D. Johnson, who researchers, consultants, developers, and others who are ASNT
cofounded ASNT and nurtured it through its first three decades. members with five to ten years of involvement in the NDT industry.
This recognition is the highest that the Society bestows.
Marvin W. Trimm Hossein Taheri

Savannah River National Molex LLC
Laboratory Lisle, Illinois
Clarks Hill, South Carolina
Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal Recognition 50-Year Member Recognition

The Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal was established by ASNT to The 50-Year Member Recognition acknowledges individuals who have
provide recognition to a person who has made an outstanding dedicated their careers to ASNT and its mission of making the world a
contribution, significant advancement, or who has rendered safer place. This recognition was established to honor loyal members
meritorious service, to any area in the field of nondestructive with 50 or more years of membership who have contributed to the NDT
testing or to the Society. Beginning in 1990, the recognition has industry and the Society through their knowledge and dedication
been given in honor of the eminent ASNT Past President Robert decade upon decade.
C. McMaster, professor emeritus of the Ohio State University.
John W. Newman
Laser Technology Inc.
Norristown, Pennsylvania Joseph F. Bush, Jr. Ed E. Edgerton Leonard J. Garcia, Jr.
Pembroke Pines, Lakewood, Colorado El Monte, California
William Via Bridge NDT Lifetime Service Florida
Recognition
The William Via Bridge NDT Lifetime Service Recognition acknowl-
edges outstanding voluntary service to the bridge and highway
nondestructive testing and evaluation industry. This Recognition
honors William F. Via, who has helped develop many standards
and specifications that are utilized nationally in the bridge industry.
Herbert Kaplan Jack C. Spanner, Sr.

John C. Duke, Jr. Boynton Beach, (posthumous)
Virginia Tech Florida
Blacksburg, Virginia
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in memoriam
Robert G. Dunn US Navy, he was awarded the Good
Conduct Medal. Dunn’s career path
Robert (Bob) G. Dunn died on 11 August included over six years in the US Navy;
2018 at age 80. He is survived by his wife over ten years with Eastman Kodak —
of 60 years, Nancy; children John, William, Industrial Imaging Division; and 30 years
Robert, and Elizabeth; seven grandchil- with his own company, RG Dunn &
dren; and his sister, Joan Dunn-Lancaster. Associates, as a supplier of NDT equipment,
Dunn was an active member of ASNT, both materials, and consulting services.
at the national level and as a member of Dunn enjoyed playing golf and poker,
the Greater Houston Section. He was and was an avid follower of Houston
awarded the ASNT Fellow Award in 1980 Astros baseball and Houston Texans
Robert G. Dunn
and received the 50-Year Member football. He was a past member of the
Recognition in 2016. Knights of Columbus and a longstanding
Dunn served for six years in the parishioner at St. Martha’s Catholic Church
US Navy as a Naval Corpsman attached in Kingwood, where he participated in
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society news
2018 Election Results
On Friday, 21 August 2018, membership ballots for the election of the 2018–2019 officers and directors at large for the American
Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) were tallied. The newly elected members of the ASNT Board of Directors are pictured below:
Board Officers
Chair of the Board President Vice President Secretary/Treasurer

David A. Mandina Scott P. Cargill David E. Savoy Michael V. McGloin
Directors at Large
Sebastian Z. Fernandes John J. Kinsey David H. Mitchell, Sr.
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New Advertising Sales Supervisor In 2010, Barca and her husband, Bob,
moved to Ohio to be closer to family. In
Debbie Barca joined the staff of ASNT’s 2013, she took an advertising sales
International Service Center in August as position for The Dispatch Media Co., where
the new advertising sales supervisor. she won the Top Salesperson of the Year
Barca comes to ASNT with 13 years award in 2014 as well as the Niche
experience in media and advertising sales. Magazine Salesperson of the Year. She
A Pittsburgh native, Barca gained eight also gained valuable experience selling
years of experience working for Aspermont digital and TV products for WCMH/NBC4.
Ltd., a global media group with a focus on Barca has one daughter, Taylor, who
the mining and energy industries, with recently graduated from the University of
Debbie Barca
leading brands such as Mining Journal, Cincinnati. She and her husband enjoy
Mining Magazine, and Australia’s Mining their dogs, traveling, and spending time
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From the Desk of the Chief Technical Officer
Understanding Employer-Based Certification l Certification: Written testimony of qualification.
l Certifying authority: The person or persons properly designated
In the April 2006 edition of The NDT in the written practice to sign certifications on behalf of the
Technician, there was an excellent article employer.
titled “Creating an NDT Certification l Certifying agency: The employer of the personnel being
Program” written by James W. Houf. This certified.
article was prompted by the many questions l Employer: Corporate, private, or public entity, which employs
ASNT International Service Center (ISC) staff personnel for wages, salary, fees, or other considerations.
received from employers and industry repre- l Outside agency: Company or individual who provides NDT Level
sentatives interested in implementing an III services and whose qualifications to provide these services
SNT-TC-1A employer-based certification (EBC) program. This article have been reviewed by the employer engaging the company or
still holds relevance today, for reasons that I will expand upon individual.
further as they relate to the responsibilities of the individuals l Qualification: Demonstrated skill, demonstrated knowledge,
involved in an effective EBC program. documented training, and documented experience required for
An effective EBC program relies on a team of employer staff personnel to properly perform the duties of a specific job.
members, employer-designated individuals, and perhaps l Written practice: Written procedure developed by the employer
employer-approved outside consultants, who are all working that details the requirements for qualification and certification
together in conjunction to meet SNT-TC-1A guidelines. It is not a of their employees.
sole individual, such as the NDT Level III, NDT trainer, NDT techni- Just from these definitions, it is clear that the emphasis is on
cian, quality manager, quality engineer, or company the employer working to and complying with a written practice
president/owner who implements an SNT-TC-1A compliant certifi- containing the requirements that specifically apply to this
cation program. It is a combination of these stakeholder roles and employer qualifying and certifying NDT personnel to meet their
responsibilities in addition to thoroughly understanding and NDT procedures, codes, standards, customer needs, contracts,
embracing the well-established philosophy behind the develop- and so on. It is not possible to be qualified or certified unless the
ment of SNT-TC-1A that makes an EBC program effective, employer is fully involved in the process from the training, experi-
successful, and compliant with the industry criteria. ence, examination, and issuance of the certification.
It has been brought to the attention of ASNT that individuals
are erroneously obtaining SNT-TC-1A certifications from So Let’s Go Back to Basics…
persons/organizations that are not in any way associated with an SNT-TC-1A is a guideline to developing an EBC program.
employer. This misguided approach to certification is particularly Guidelines, while strongly recommended, are not mandatory with
concerning because this is a flagrant misuse of SNT-TC-1A while regard to certain specifics; however, the employer is required to
going against the principles and intent of an EBC program. In develop a written practice (based on SNT-TC-1A) that describes the
addition, training organizations or individuals that provide training way the employer controls and administers personnel training,
outside of the employer’s in-house program specifically defined experience, and examination requirements for each level of certifi-
by the written practice can only issue a course completion certification. Once the written practice has been developed, the
cate, which should not be misconstrued as a certification to employer-designated Level III will approve the document, per their
conduct NDT under an EBC program. To begin with, let’s identify a responsibilities as a Level III. Note that if the Level III is not an
number of definitions addressed in SNT-TC-1A: employee of the company and is a third-party consultant, a repre-
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written practice in order for it to be recognized within the Does ASNT consider it “acceptable” for an NDT training school to
company’s procedural control system and contractual liability. hold a “written practice” and train, examine, and certify individ-
Once approved, it is paramount for the Level III to ensure all uals to that written practice?
departments/stakeholders affected by NDT have the appropriate Response
knowledge of the employer’s requirements and responsibilities in No, unless the certified employee is a bona fide employee of the
terms of qualifying and certifying NDT personnel. Knowing what is educational institution. SNT-TC-1A, Paragraph 1.3, states, “These
contained in SNT-TC-1A does not automatically mean that an indi- guidelines have been developed … to aid employers in recog-
vidual understands the EBC program used by the employer, as nizing the essential factors to be considered in qualifying
additional customer requirements, internally mandated require- employees…” SNT-TC-1A defines employer as: “The corporate,
ments, new technology, and so on, may affect the actual require- private, or public entity which employs personnel for wages,
ments in the company’s written practice. In addition, the employer salary, fees, or other considerations.” An educational institution
is bound by industry standards and contractual obligations to can serve as an “employer” and, as addressed in Paragraph 5.1,
ensure that their employees are properly certified to a written establish a “written practice.” The employer’s written practice
practice that has been approved and endorsed by the company should address the basis for qualification and certification.
officers/owners when SNT-TC-1A certifications are specified for the
work performed by the company. With the information identified above, it is clear that unless an
With that concept in mind, I direct your attention to ASNT’s individual is being trained, qualified, and certified by his or her
publication Interpreting SNT-TC-1A, 2017 edition (Interpretations employer (with or without the assistance of outside agencies),
from 1976 through 2017). This publication contains various obtaining an SNT-TC-1A –based certification is not possible. The
questions relating to certification and the implementation of EBC. industry-recognized requirement is that the certificate references
The following three inquiries are examples that emphasize the the company’s written practice and not just SNT-TC-1A. It is accept-
importance to understanding and applying an effective EBC program. able to include reference to SNT-TC-1A, but it’s the company’s
written practice that binds the training, experience, examinations,
Inquiry 77-3 and so on, together into a certification program. If a certificate
Paragraph 9.1 states that the certification of all levels is the only states “SNT-TC-1A,” then it should be questioned, as it may
responsibility of the employer. Paragraph 9.5 recognizes the use be a scenario where an individual is seeking EBC, but without the
of outside certification services. May an employer subcontract employer’s involvement.
nondestructive testing to an outside organization utilizing that Once again, remember that the employer is responsible for all
organization’s certifications for Levels I, II, and III, provided the NDT personnel being certified correctly and in accordance with the
results of the employer’s audit of that organization are satisfac- company’s written practice. The certification is always issued by
tory? Must the employer personally certify NDT personnel, or may the employer, so by definition, there are no third-party SNT-TC-1A
the employer accept the outside organization’s certification? certifications permitted outside of the EBC. The employer cannot
Response abdicate their responsibility for personnel certification to an entity
The intent underlying Paragraph 9.1 is fundamental. When outside outside of their full control, and the certificate must always carry
Level III services are used for the purpose of qualifying and certi- the signature of the employer’s designated certifying authority as
fying personnel, it is intended that the employer utilizing such specified in the company’s written practice. Finally, under an EBC
services be responsible for assuring that those services are program, personnel are certified to a specific written practice
properly performed and audited. Whether or not the employer approved by the employer, and not to a generically referenced use
uses outside Level III services for training and examining NDT of “SNT-TC-1A.”
personnel, the total responsibility for certification of all levels rests
with the employer of the individuals. JAMES BENNETT
Chief Technical Officer
Inquiry 83-4 jbennett@asnt.org w x
Can any Level III examiner, nominated or not by the company,
qualify a possible Level III candidate by examination?
Response
No, not unless the Level III is nominated by the company and
acting as its agent.

New ASNT Certificate Holders
Below are personnel who have recently obtained their initial ASNT certifications. This list includes new certificate holders who
were added to the ASNT database through 1 September 2018. Each certificate holder’s current certification information can
be found on the ASNT website at asnt.org/certlist.
ACCP Level II Fabian Alberto Oviedo Tellez ASNT NDT Level III Dong Hyeon Kim
Michael Harkness Mark R. Powlison Pradeep Bhingare Eungpil Kim
Robert A. Rodriguez Robert Boyce Joonghwan Kim
ACCP Level II CWI Ronny L. Stanley Oscar Luis Cabrera Yongmin Kwon
Muhammad Akhtar Trevor Stroh Carlos Alberto Caceres Adrian Lipan
Randy Barhite Nathan Will Sanchez Annie Mauzeroll
Michael Boos Cole D. Williamson Fang Chen Michael A. Piercey
Robert L. Boswell Hubert Alan Crawford Gytri Ramsumair
Justin Davis ACCP Level III Sajad Monem Darabad Yoon Sang Tae
Jeremi Frazier Tigor Senjaya Sihombing Kevin Daniel Ferrone Surya Naga Venkata
Nicholas A. Geib Manigandan Ganesan Satyanarayana Munnaluri
Luis F. Gonzalez Harsh Golwala John Snyder
ASNT NDT Level II
Walter Hess Matthew T. Hupp Bharat Suthar
Charles Cook
Kendall McKenzie Shehbazalam M. Iraki Gabriel Valme
Francis L. Stasik
Michael Noon Kyung Don Kang Bogdan Wojdylo
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TEST Effect of Structural

Parameters on Coupling
Interference of Arrayed
Eddy Current Testing
by Yang Li, Ling Ren, Saibo She, Yechao Li, Jing Nie, and Jingbin Li
E
ddy current testing is a nondestructive testing technique that works
based on the electromagnetic induction principle. It has been widely
applied in the fields of crack detection, displacement measurement,
and many others because it is noncontact, nonpolluting, and robust
(George et al. 2017; Johnston et al. 2018; Sakthivel et al. 2016; Li et al.
2016a; Deng et al. 2018).
In order to achieve higher efficiency and better performance, arrayed eddy
current testing (AECT), based on the eddy current technique, has received
more and more attention (Chen et al. 2018; Bouloudenine et al. 2017; Li
et al. 2016b; Postolache et al. 2013; Xie et al. 2015). In the AECT application,
multiple coils are energized to generate the magnetic field, so coupling inter-
ference between coils is inevitable (Sheng et al. 2016). Moreover, the coil
mutual inductance can be regarded as the parameter reflection of coupling
interference (Chao et al. 2016). Thus, the study of the relationship between
structural parameters and coil mutual inductance is useful. This study can
reveal the relationship between structural parameters and coupling interfer-
ence, and then optimize the arrayed structural parameters to achieve better
testing performance.
In this paper, the effect of structural parameters on the coupling interfer-
ence of AECT is analyzed. Due to the good symmetry of the positive polygon
arrangement, it will be adopted as the configuration of arrayed coils. A theo-
retical analysis model is established, and the constraint relationship between
parameters is also analyzed. In addition, simulation and experimental verifi-
cation is carried out. According to the results, when the coil thickness is larger
or the topological radius is smaller, the intensity of coupling interference
using AECT is greater. Thus, arrayed coils with smaller thicknesses and larger
topological radii are more suitable for AECT applications.

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O O O
R α R α α
R R
R R
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 1. The positive polygon arrangement: (a) triangular; (b) quadrangle; and (c) pentagon.
Theoretical Analysis Model

In AECT, the configuration and the structural parame-
ters of the coils both influence the distribution and
strength of the magnetic field. A positive polygon, also
ri ro
called a regular polygon, has equal sides and angles
h A
in a two-dimensional plane. The distance between two
adjacent points is the same, and the structure has
good symmetry. The most common examples are
positive triangulation, quadrangle, and pentagon, as
shown in Figure 1. In this study, the positive polygon
arrangement is selected as the structure of the arrayed
Figure 2. The structure of the pancake coil.
coils, owing to its good symmetry. The center of each
coil is placed at the end point of the positive polygon.
This polygon structure of probe array can have good
spatial symmetry, which means the coupling interfer-
O
ence on any two adjacent coils is consistent when the
α arrayed coils are energized to create a magnetic field.
In Figure 1, R is the outer radius of the positive
R R polygon, which is called the topological radius, R, in
the following sections.
A pancake coil is selected due to its wide adoption
in eddy current sensors. The structure of the pancake
coil is shown in Figure 2. In the figure, the inner radius
is ri, the outer radius is ro, the coil thickness is h, and
the section area is A.
By combining the type of arrangement and the coil
structure, the theoretical analysis model can be deter-
Coil 1 Coil 2 mined. Due to the good symmetry of the positive
polygon arrangement, it can be simplified to only
analyze the adjacent two coils. The theoretical analysis
Figure 3. The theoretical analysis model. model is shown in Figure 3.
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In order to analyze the effect of coil parameters on
coupling interference, the constraint relationship
between parameters in the model first needs to be
determined. Because the coil outer radius is closely
related to the sensor’s measuring range, it is set as ro.
For the miniaturization, the total size of the arrayed
coils is limited, assuming that the overall carrier is a
circle with the maximum radius set as K. In order to
maintain the density of coil turns, the coil section area
is set as A. The number of arrayed coils is N, and there
is no physical contact between adjacent coils. The
parameters (ro, K, A, N) are all fixed values.
The constraint relationship between the parame-
ters in the model is shown as follows:
⎧
⎪R + r ≤ K Figure 4. The simulation model.
⎪ 0
(1) ⎨( ro − ri ) × h = A
⎪
⎪R sin π > r 80
⎪⎩ N o
R = 12 mm
Coil mutual inductance M (μH)
Because there is a unique correlation between coil 70 R = 13 mm

R = 14 mm
inner radius ri and coil thickness h (ri = ro – A / H), in 60 R = 15 mm
this paper coil thickness is regarded as an inde-
pendent variable. From Equation 1, it can be found 50
that there are only two structural parameters to be 40
analyzed: topological radius R and coil thickness h.
30
Simulation Analysis 20
In accordance with the theoretical analysis model, the
simulation analysis is carried out based on commer- 10
cially available electromagnetic simulation software. 0
The materials of the two coils and measured samples 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
are set as copper and aluminum, respectively. The coil Coil thickness h (mm)
outer radius, ro, is 10 mm; the maximum radius of the
Figure 5. The relation between coil mutual inductance and coil thickness.
overall carrier, K, is 25 mm; the coil section area, A, is
5 mm2; and the number of arrayed coils, N, is 3. The
excitation frequency was set at 100 kHz and the
solution region was 300%. The mesh operations for 80
the coils and the measured sample are set as inside h = 1 mm
Coil mutual inductance M (μH)
70 h = 2 mm
subdivision and skin depth subdivision, respectively. h = 3 mm
The simulation model is shown as Figure 4. 60 h = 4 mm
h = 5 mm
In order to analyze the effect of structural parame-
50
ters on coil mutual inductance, a parameterized scan
technique is adopted. In detail, coil thickness h is set 40
at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 mm, while topological radius R is
30
set at 12, 13, 14, and 15 mm. The relationship between
coil mutual inductance M and coil thickness h under 20
different topological radii is shown in Figure 5.
10
It is discovered that, under each topological
radius, the coil mutual inductance, M, increases with 0
12 12.5 13 13.5 14 14.5 15
the coil thickness, h. In other words, the intensity of
Topological radius R (mm)
the coupling interference will increase with the coil
thickness. Thus, coils with smaller thicknesses are Figure 6. The relation between coil mutual inductance and topological radius.
more suitable for AECT.

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On the other hand, the relationship between coil

mutual inductance and topological radii under
different coil thicknesses is shown in Figure 6. It is
indicated that, under each coil thickness, coil mutual
inductance decreases with the topological radius,
which means the intensity of coupling interference will
decrease with the topological radius. Hence, a positive
polygon arrangement with a larger topological radius
is more suitable for AECT.
Experimental Verification
(a)
The aforementioned simulation analysis reveals the
relationships between the two structural parameters
and coil mutual inductance. Because coil mutual
inductance will lead to a change in coil equivalent
impedance and then induce coil output voltage
variation, coil output voltage variation can be regarded
as a reflection of coupling interference. According to
the theoretical model, in order to verify the correct-
ness of the simulation analysis, multiple groups of
experiments are performed. An aluminum alloy plate
is adopted as the test sample.
(b)
The structural parameters of two types of physical
coils are as follows: for coil type a, ro = 10 mm,
ri = 5 mm, and h = 2 mm; for coil type b, ro = 10 mm,
Figure 7. The two types of physical coils: (a) type a; and (b) type b. ri = 9 mm, and h = 10 mm.
(a) (b)
Figure 8. The comparison experiments: (a) single energized coil; and (b) double energized coils.
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coil mutual inductance decreases with the
topological radius, which means the intensity
of coupling interference will decrease...
Two types of physical coils are made of varnished As for the two types of coils, under different topo-
wire, with a wire diameter of 0.4 mm. Because the two logical radii, the comparison experiments are carried
coils have an equal sectional area and the same out with single and double energized coils. As an
wire diameter, their turns are both 80. The average example, the comparison experiments for coil type b
diameters of coil type a and type b are 15 and are shown as Figure 8.
19 mm, respectively. Topological radius R is set The experiment with a single energized coil can be
as the two extremes of the simulation parameters, used as the reference without considering coupling inter-
12 and 15 mm. Because N = 3 is selected in the ference, whereas the experiment with double energized
simulation model, the center distance of the two coils is affected by coupling interference. Thus, the rela-
coils is (3)R. The two types of physical coils are tionship between coil output voltage variation U and
shown in Figure 7. structural parameters is shown in Figure 9.
0.6 0.6
Coil type a Coil type b
0.5 0.5
Voltage variation (V)
0.4 0.4
0.3 0.3
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0 0
12 13 14 15 16 12 13 14 15 16
(a) Topological radius R (mm) (b) Topological radius R (mm)
0.6 0.6
R = 12 mm R = 15 mm
0.5 0.5
0.4 0.4
0.3 0.3
0.2 0.2
0.1 0.1
0 0
0 5 10 0 5 10
(c) Coil thickness h (mm) (d) Coil thickness h (mm)
Figure 9. The change law of coil output voltage variation for: (a) coil type a; (b) coil type b; (c) R = 12 mm; and (d) R = 15 mm.

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It is discovered that the coil output voltage ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

variation induced by the coupling interference This work was supported by the National Natural Science
decreases with the topological radius and increases Foundation of China (31860333). The authors are grateful
for the support.
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Haley Cowans
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ome to the Greater Houston Section, the
largest section of ASNT, Houston, Texas, is
a repeat location for ASNT conferences.
This year, the Annual Conference will return
to the city on 28–31 October, giving attendees the
opportunity to network, learn about advancements in
technology, hear presentations by industry experts,
and reconnect with their Society.
Program Details
This year’s Annual Conference will feature the variety
of workshops, meetings, presentations, exhibitions,
ASNT
and other activities that have made it a destination for
NDT professionals each year. One significant change to
this year’s schedule, however, is that the conference
activities will be starting on Sunday, 28 October,
Heads to instead of Monday. The first short course will kick off
the conference on Sunday morning, followed by the
ASNT Annual Business Meeting and Town Hall Meeting
H-Town for in the afternoon. This meeting is one of the best

chances for attendees to learn about the state of the
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Society and make their voices heard. Sunday’s activi-
2018 Annual ties also include the student career workshop and a
welcome reception in the exhibit hall. This free
reception provides a great opportunity to connect with
Conference more than 200 companies that will showcase new

products, technology, and innovation during the
conference.
To access links to more information about the

Annual Conference and Houston attractions,
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on, Texas Monday, 29 October, will open with keynote

speaker Ruben Gonzalez, who is presenting
areas of NDT. The second short course of the confer-
ence will also be held on Monday, and the first Lunch
“Becoming Unstoppable: Success Secrets of a Four- with Exhibitors and Exhibitors’ Innovation Forum will
Time Olympian.” Gonzalez is well suited to motivate begin. These activities give attendees the chance to
audiences to achieve success—after taking up luge at visit the exhibit hall and hear 20-minute presentations
21, he overcame the odds to compete in the Winter from selected exhibitors. Monday will also include the
Olympics only four years later. He’s since competed in Day of STEM, a program designed to educate high
three other Olympic games, and at age 55 he is school students about the science and opportunities
working toward the goal of becoming the oldest in the field of NDT.
person to compete in the Winter Olympics in Beijing Tuesday, 30 October, will begin with the
2022. Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture, delivered by the 2018
The technical program begins on Monday, and will award winner Glenn M. Light, of Light NDE Consulting.
continue through the conference. This year will feature His lecture is titled “Where Would Research and
almost 100 presentations, with topics covering many Development in NDE Be Without a Little Risk?”
Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, was founded along the Buffalo Bayou in 1836 by brothers Augustus C. and John K. Allen.

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The third short course will also take place on Tuesday, particle testing; liquid penetrant testing; NDT and
and this will be the final day of the Lunch with structural health monitoring for bridges; and proba-
Exhibitors and Exhibitors Innovation Forum. Tuesday bility of detection.
will conclude with the Awards Banquet. This formal
event gives ASNT the chance to recognize members Society Meetings
who have significantly contributed to their Society and In addition to the variety of educational and
the NDT industry, and is always a highlight of the networking opportunities, the Annual Conference is a
Annual Conference. great time to reconnect with the Society and get
The conference will conclude on Wednesday, involved in its activities. Council and committee
31 October, beginning with the Plenary Address titled meetings are held throughout the conference, giving
...the Annual Conference is a great time

to reconnect with the Society and get
involved in its activities.
“Industry 4.0: Industrial Internet of Things and participants the chance to evaluate current projects
Connected Services,” which will be delivered by and make decisions about future goals. Many of these
Manikandan Janardhanan. The final short course will meetings are open to the public, so attendees who
also take place on Wednesday. have not been involved with ASNT committees have
the chance to see how they could contribute to the
Short Courses Society and to participate in the goal of creating a
The short courses are an important part of the Annual safer world.
Conference, and this year’s offerings feature a wide
variety of subjects for attendees at any stage of their Day of STEM
career. This year’s courses are Time of Flight Diffraction One of the most important challenges facing the NDT
for Weld Inspections, led by Anmol Birring, Birring NDE industry is outreach and education about this
Center; Technical Writing for NDT, led by Robert important work, and ASNT has made it a priority to
Conklin, ASNT; Leadership and Ethics in NDT, led by connect with students and inspire the next generation
Don Locke and Don Norton, Hellier NDT; and Magnetic of NDT technicians. The Day of STEM (science, tech-
Particle Inspection: Beyond the Basics, led by Joseph nology, engineering, and math) gives industry leaders
Mackin, International Pipe Inspectors Association. the chance to connect with local high school students,
sharing information about the opportunities and value
Technical Program of this profession as well as providing hands-on
The technical program is an essential part of each demonstrations of NDT in action. This year, around
year’s annual conference and features presentations 100 students will be attending the Day of STEM on
on methods, technology, industry, and other subjects Monday, 29 October.
relevant to NDT researchers and practitioners at all
levels. This year’s program will include presentations Student Program
on the following (please note that this list is not The Annual Conference offers opportunities not just for
exhaustive): NDT 4.0, including opportunities and seasoned researchers and practitioners, but for
direction, data analytics, and automation and students just beginning their NDT careers as well. The
robotics; acoustic emission testing; additive manufac- Student Career Workshop gives students the chance to
turing; ultrasonic testing, including advanced ultra- network with industry professionals and learn the
sonics, full matrix capture/total focusing method, and skills they will need to develop successful NDT
phased array applications; aerospace; chemical and careers. These include crafting good résumés, devel-
petroleum; composites NDT; computed tomography; oping interview techniques, and learning more about
electromagnetic testing; NDE engineering; magnetic job opportunities available. This workshop will take
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place on Sunday, 28 October from 9:00 a.m. to Pre-conference Events
12 p.m., during which time students can sign up for The Greater Houston Section will be sponsoring a
interviews to be conducted on Monday and Tuesday. series of activities before the conference. On
Wednesday and Thursday, 24–25 October, the Section
Companion Program will host a motorcycle ride from Houston to San
At each Annual Conference, ASNT plans a schedule of Antonio. There will also be a tennis tournament and
events for those traveling with the ASNT members and a golf tournament on Friday, 26 October. To learn
NDT professionals who will have busy schedules of more about these events and register to attend, visit
courses, presentations, and meetings. This program asnthouston.com.
will kick off on Sunday with a brunch, during which
attendees will learn more about Houston from a repre- Conference Venue
sentative from Visit Houston. This brunch will also This year’s conference will be taking place in the
include an “accessory exchange.” Monday will begin George R. Brown (GRB) Convention Center, which is
with a continental breakfast (as will each day of the located on the east side of downtown Houston,
conference), followed by the Discover Houston tour. approximately 16.09 km (10 mi) from the William P.
Attendees of this tour will have the chance to explore Hobby Airport and approximately 32.19 km (20 mi)
the city on a double-decker bus, led by an experi- from the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The
enced tour guide. The tour will end with a three-course convention center is part of the larger Avenida
lunch at the Downtown Aquarium. Those interested in Houston convention campus, which includes
this tour should be sure to sign up in advance, as Discovery Green (a 4.86 ha [12 acre] park), various
space is limited to 60 participants (an additional fee dining and retail locations, and public art installations.
of $50 is required). On Tuesday, a NASA astronaut will Conference attendees can see some of this art on
be giving a presentation about space travel. Since the display in the conference center itself as part of the
final breakfast on Wednesday falls on the day of “Houston Infusion” initiative, which showcases works
Halloween, attendees can participate in a costume of art by local artists that celebrate the history and
contest, competing in the categories “best overall,” culture of the city. The convention center also houses
“scariest,” “funniest,” “most original,” “most effort,” five restaurants, retail space, and a Starbucks, and
and “most innovative.” offers complimentary Wi-Fi in all public spaces.
This year’s conference will take place at the George R. Brown Convention Center, the center of the Avenida Houston convention district.
(Photo credit: Visit Houston.)

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The convention center offers a number of conven- Introduction to Houston

ient transportation options for getting around Houston was founded in August 1836 by two brothers,
Houston. The Greenlink Green and Orange Routes are Augustus C. and John K. Allen. They purchased the
free buses that run on compressed natural gas and land along the Buffalo Bayou in the same year that
take visitors to the major destinations throughout the the Republic of Texas became independent from
downtown area. The buses run every seven to ten Mexico after the Battle of San Jacinto, led by General
minutes and depart from the GRB South Transit Sam Houston (who would later become the first
Center. The METROrail is another option, with a North president of the Republic of Texas). The brothers,
Line stop just north of the GRB. One-way tickets cost friends of Houston’s, named their new city after him.
$1.25. Taxis, ride-sharing services, and rental cars are The city served as the capital of the new republic
also among the variety of transportation options, and from 1837 to 1839. It became a hub of Texas
Avenida Houston includes four parking garages. commerce as it attracted freight wagons and
The headquarters hotel, the Marriott Marquis railroads, and even steamboats that traveled up the
Houston, is connected to the George R. Brown Buffalo Bayou. In 1870, Congress designated
Convention Center through a climate-controlled Houston a port city, and due in part to the creation
skybridge. The hotel opened in December 2016, and of the Houston Ship Channel within the bayou,
has since become a flagship of the Avenida Houston Houston’s port facilities were the eighth largest in
convention district. The most notable feature is the the country by 1930.
amenity deck, a rooftop pool area that offers views Houston is the fourth most populous city in the
of the Houston skyline from its height of 33.53 m United States, and the largest in the South and
(110 ft). The deck includes a 161.54 m (530 ft) long Southwest. Situated along the Gulf Coast in the
lazy river shaped like the state of Texas and an infinity southeast region of the state of Texas, Houston enjoys
pool. In addition to the amenity deck, the hotel offers a mild climate year-round and has the most total park
dining options, a full-service spa, and a fitness center. acreage of any US city with more than one million
Many of the ASNT conference events, including residents. The city has established itself as a cultural
meetings and speaker presentations, will take place in hub, boasting a diverse population, a thriving arts
the meeting spaces on the second floor of the Marriott culture, and culinary offerings that have given it a
Marquis Houston. The Exhibitors Gallery will be reputation as a “foodie” destination.
located within the GRB Convention Center. Houston is also an important location for several
industries. It is known as the “Energy Capital of the
World,” having experienced an influx of oil refineries
starting in the early 1900s. It became the headquar-
ters of the Shell Oil Co. in 1971. The city now also
focuses on environmental initiatives, with 25% of the
city’s electricity purchased from wind energy. In
addition to energy, Houston is an important city for
the field of medicine. The Texas Medical Center,
founded in Houston in 1943, is the largest life
sciences destination in the world, conducting both
research and medical care in its 54 institutions.
Space Exploration
The city of Houston has a unique claim to fame;
“Houston” was the first word spoken from the moon,
the beginning of Neil Armstrong’s monumental trans-
mission, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle
has landed.” The history of space exploration is
indelibly tied to Houston. The city is home to the
Johnson Space Center (JSC), which has served as the
base on Earth for NASA’s astronauts as they train and
report to Mission Control for over three decades.
Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of
The Marriott Marquis features a rooftop lazy river shaped like the state of Texas. JSC. This nonprofit attraction allows visitors to learn
(Photo credit: Visit Houston.) more about America’s human spaceflight program.
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The center features a collection of artifacts (including where the soccer teams the Houston Dynamo (MLS)
flown spacecraft), virtual experiences in the Mission and the Houston Dash (NWSL) play.
Mars exhibit, and the Independence Plaza. The
Independence Plaza, presented by Boeing, is an eight- Other Downtown Attractions
story complex that allows visitors to explore the only One of Houston’s most popular attractions is the
shuttle replica mounted on a shuttle carrier aircraft Houston Zoo. Visitors to the zoo have the chance to
(visitors can enter both vehicles, an experience unique see more than 800 species of animals in the 22.26 ha
to the Independence Plaza). (55 acre) tropical landscape, all while supporting the
Space Center Houston also includes the NASA conservation efforts of the not-for-profit Houston Zoo
Tram Tour. This tour takes visitors through such Inc. The Houston Zoo is located in the middle of
behind-the-scenes destinations as Rocket Park, where Hermann Park, which also includes numerous
they can see one of three remaining Saturn V rockets, gardens, an outdoor theater, and the Hermann Park
and Historic Mission Control—the “Houston” that Golf Course.
Armstrong was addressing when he gave his first
dispatch from the surface of the moon, the place where
NASA led Gemini and Apollo missions from
the ground. Along with learning about NASA’s past,
visitors to the tram tour can also see the future of
NASA’s space exploration in the Space Vehicle Mockup
Facility, where NASA conducts astronaut training and
develops new space exploration vehicles. The Space
Center Houston is the number one attraction for interna-
tional visitors to the city, and anyone interested in the
history of space exploration won’t want to miss this look
at the role Houston played in that history.
Avenida Houston and Surrounding Area

Avenida Houston is the city district that includes the
George R. Brown Convention Center and the Marriott
Marquis Houston, the conference venue and head-
quarters hotel for this year’s conference. Many of the Space Center Houston, the official visitor center of the Johnson Space Center,
city’s most popular attractions are also part of Avenida allows visitors to experience the history and future of American space
Houston and will be easily accessible to conference exploration. A highlight is the Independence Plaza, the only shuttle replica
mounted on a shuttle carrier aircraft. (Photo credit: Tricia Daniel /
attendees. The Houston Visitors Center itself is located
Shutterstock.com.)
in the designer pop-up shop LAUNCH in Partnership
Tower, just north of the George R. Brown Convention
Center. LAUNCH also showcases apparel, accessories,
and other products created by Houston-based
designers.
One of the premier public green spaces of
Houston, the 4.86 ha (12 acre) park Discovery Green
is located just across the street from the convention
center. In addition to its many trails, lawns, and recre-
ation areas, the park also includes a playground,
performance spaces, interactive water features and
fountains, indoor and outdoor reading spaces, art
installations, and two restaurants. With scheduled
activities and good weather year-round, Discovery
Green is a popular Houston destination.
Avenida Houston is also the location of three
major sports venues in Houston: Minute Maid Park,
where baseball fans can shop for Houston Astros Discovery Green, a premier public park featuring a variety of recreation space and
merchandise; the Toyota Center, home of the Houston two restaurants, is situated directly in front of the George R. Brown Convention
Rockets NBA team; and the BBVA Compass Stadiums, Center. (Photo credit: Visit Houston.)

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The zoo is part of the Houston Museum District, Children’s Museum of Houston, which has been
one of the largest in the country. This district provides named the number one children’s museum by Parents
visitors the opportunity to learn about science, the magazine, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the
human body, art and literature, culture, history, and largest art museum in the Southwest United States.
more, all within walking distance. Of note are the Many of the museums also offer free admission.
Another popular attraction is the Downtown
Aquarium, a complex that also features a seafood
restaurant and attractions such as a ferris wheel and
aquatic carousel. Visitors who want to see multiple
attractions can benefit from purchasing a Houston
CityPASS. This pass (which costs $59 for adults and is
valid for nine days) includes access to Space Center
Houston, the Downtown Aquarium, and the Houston
Museum of Natural Science, and allows purchasers to
choose between admission to the Houston Zoo or the
Museum of Fine Arts for their fourth option, and the
Kemah Boardwalk (a carnival-style attraction over-
looking Galveston Bay) or the Children’s Museum of
Houston for their fifth.
This is only a sampling of the activities that
Houston offers; readers can explore even more
options at visithoustontexas.com/things-to-do.
Dining
Houston’s culinary scene is one of the city’s main
attractions, and attendees of this year’s conference
will have easy access to a sampling of the variety
Houston offers. Avenida Houston features 20 restau-
rants within walking distance, including several
options within the George R. Brown Convention Center
and the Marriott Marquis Houston. Inside the conven-
The Houston Zoo was the city’s number one attraction in tion center, attendees can sample classic Southern-
2016, and is home to more than 800 species of animals. style barbeque at Bud’s Pitmaster BBQ. The
(Photo credit: Stephanie Adams/Houston Zoo.)
headquarters hotel also offers regional classics: the
Walker Street Kitchen showcases the flavors of Texas,
and the award-winning Xochi features a menu inspired
by Oaxaca, Mexico. The Grove, one of two restaurants
within the Discovery Green park, serves a menu that
includes steaks and seafood (with more casual
offerings on the bar menu) with a view of the park’s
live oaks from its floor-to-ceiling windows. To see
more restaurants within Avenida Houston, visit
avenidahouston.com/dining.
Houston has numerous dining options throughout
the downtown area, including award-winning restau-
rants and more than 700 food trucks. The city’s
diverse culture is perhaps best represented by its
cuisine. Visitors can sample authentic Tex-Mex at the
Original Ninfa’s on Navigation, which was named the
best restaurant in Texas by Southern Living in 2017.
For a taste of Houston’s creole influences, options
The Downtown Aquarium features numerous exhibits and attractions, as well as include Brennan’s of Houston—which features bright
a restaurant that provides aquarium views alongside a surf-and-turf menu. interior décor and patio dining in a New Orleans–
(Photo credit: Oleg Anisimov / Shutterstock.com.) inspired courtyard—and Treebeards Market Square,
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housed in what is said to be the second-oldest
building in Houston. For those wanting breakfast or
brunch, the popular Breakfast Klub serves Southern
soul food fare; if visitors want to avoid lines, they
should be sure to arrive early. Houston cuisine is not
only influenced by its surrounding regions. Visitors can
get a sampling of the variety of international cuisine
available by touring Montrose Boulevard, one street
that includes restaurants serving Thai, Mexican,
Italian, Vietnamese, Greek, Japanese, Lebanese,
English, Brazilian, Chinese, and French cuisine. To
explore more of what Houston has to offer diners, see
visithoustontexas.com/restaurants.
Conclusion
This year’s Annual Conference promises a diverse Treebeards offers visitors a taste of Houston cuisine’s creole influences. The
array of experiences, including interesting speakers, Market Square location is housed in what is said to be the second-oldest building
the latest products and technological advancements, in Houston. (Photo credit: Stephanie A Sellers / Shutterstock.com)
opportunities for students, courses taught by industry
experts, and a vigorous technical program. Taking
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
place in the fourth-largest city in the country, and the
Facts were provided by ruben-gonzalez.com, the George R.
home of the largest section of ASNT, this conference is Brown Convention Center, Avenida Houston, the Marriott
sure to be a Texas-sized event! w x Marquis Houston, and Visit Houston.

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3E NDT LLC .................................................................1312 The following is an index (as of 8 September) of QSA GLOBAL INC. (SILVER SPONSOR) .........................1353
3IG CORP. LTD. ............................................................1312 the exhibitors scheduled to display their products QUALITY EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS INC. ..................1353
A or promote their services at the ASNT Annual QUALITY MAGAZINE ....................................................1353
A-FAB CO. INC. ............................................................1312 Conference 2018 in Houston, Texas R
ACCESS PLUG FLANGE INC. .........................................1312 R-CON NDT INC. ..........................................................1353
ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY GROUP .................................1312 REL INC. ......................................................................1353
ACS-SOLUTIONS GMBH ..............................................1312 RF SYSTEM LAB ..........................................................1354
ACUREN ......................................................................1313
I ROHMANN EDDY CURRENT INSTRUMENTS & SYSTEMS .1354
I&T NARDONI INSTITUTE SRL ......................................1333
ADVANCED CORROSION TECHNOLOGIES & TRAINING LLC 1313
IMASONIC ..................................................................1334 S
ADVANCED INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES......................1313 SCANMASTER IRT INC. ................................................1354
INETEC – INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY .......1334
ADVANCED OEM SOLUTIONS ......................................1313 SCANTECH INSTRUMENTS INC. ...................................1354
INNERSPEC TECHNOLOGIES INC. .................................1334
ADVANCED TEST EQUIPMENT RENTALS........................1314 SCIAPS INC. ................................................................1354
INSPECTION PLUG STRATEGIES LLC ............................1334
AEROSPACE TESTING INTERNATIONAL .........................1314 SE INTERNATIONAL INC. ..............................................1354
INUKTUN SERVICES LTD. .............................................1337
AGILE FRAMEWORKS...................................................1314 SENSOR NETWORKS ...................................................1355
IONIX ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES ...............................1337
AIP .............................................................................1314 SG NDT INC. ................................................................1355
IPSI ............................................................................1337
AMERAPEX CORP. .......................................................1314 SHANGHAI CHINDT SYSTEMS AND SERVICES ..............1355
IRAY TECHNOLOGY SHANGHAI LTD. .............................1337
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING SHENZHEN COANTEC AUTOMATION
(SILVER SPONSOR) ......................................................1317 IRIS INSPECTION SERVICES INC. ..................................1337 TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD. ................................................1355
AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY ....................................1317 ISOFLEX RADIOACTIVE LLC...........................................1337 SHERWIN INC. ............................................................1355
AMOTUS SOLUTIONS ..................................................1317 J SIGNALNDT .................................................................1355
AMS STORE AND SHRED LLC .......................................1317 JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR NDI.........................................1337 SIUI ............................................................................1355
ARROW-TECH INC. ......................................................1317 JENTEK SENSORS INC. ................................................1338 SOCOMATE INTERNATIONAL .......................................1356
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR NDT ...............................1318 JETSOFT LTD. ...............................................................1338 SONASPECTION INTERNATIONAL INC.......................... 1356
AUT SOLUTIONS .........................................................1318 JIREH INDUSTRIES .......................................................1338 SONATEST LTD. ...........................................................1356
B JMD NDT INC. ..............................................................1338 SONAXIS SA ...............................................................1356
BAUGH & WEEDON LTD. ..............................................1318 K SONOTEC ....................................................................1356
BLATEK INC. ................................................................1318 KINETIC SOLUTIONS LLC .............................................1338 SOURCE PRODUCTION & EQUIPMENT CO. INC. ...........1358
BRITISH INSTITUTE OF NDT .........................................1318 KOREAN SOCIETY FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING .....1339 SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE ............................1358
BRUKER ......................................................................1321 L SPECTRONICS CORP. ...................................................1358
C LABINO AB (PLATINUM SPONSOR) .............................1339 SPELLMAN HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRONICS CORP............1358
CALDER INDUSTRIAL....................................................1321 LASER TECHNOLOGY INC. ...........................................1339 T
CANON ........................................................................1321 LAVENDER INTERNATIONAL NDT USA LLC ....................1339 TALCYON PTE. LTD. ......................................................1358
CARESTREAM NDT .......................................................1322 LICKENBROCK TECHNOLOGIES INC. ............................1339 TEAM INDUSTRIAL SERVICES ......................................1358
CARL ZEISS INDUSTRIAL METROLOGY .........................1322 LOGOS IMAGING LLC ..................................................1340 TECHNOLOGY DESIGN LTD. .........................................1359
CGM CIGIEMME SPA ....................................................1322 LUCID SOFTWARE LTD. ................................................1340 TELEDYNE ICM (BRONZE SPONSOR) ...........................1359
CHEMETALL US INC. ....................................................1322 M TEST EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS LLC .........................1359
CHONGQING LEEB INSTRUMENT CO. LTD. ...................1322 MAGNAFLUX ...............................................................1340 TESTEX INC. ................................................................1359
CHOWDUR SERVICES INC. ...........................................1322 MARIETTA NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING INC. ................1340 TESTIA ........................................................................1360
CIRCLE SYSTEMS INC. (PLATINUM SPONSOR) .............1322 MARSHIELD.................................................................1340 THERMAL WAVE IMAGING INC. ...................................1360
CM DIAGNOSTICS SP. Z O.O. .......................................1323 MASSACHUSETTS MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES ...........1340 THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC .......................................1360
COBRA SCIENTIFIC ......................................................1323 MATEC INSTRUMENT COMPANIES INC. .......................1343 TORAY INDUSTRIES AMERICA INC. ..............................1360
COMET INDUSTRIAL X-RAY ..........................................1323 MET-L-CHEK CO. (PLATINUM SPONSOR).......................1343 TRIKON TECHNOLOGIES/NEXUS METROLOGY ..............1360
CONSULTCO INC. ........................................................1323 METAL ANALYSIS GROUP.............................................1343 TURNER SPECIALTY SERVICES LLC................................1360
CORESTAR INTERNATIONAL CORP. ..............................1324 METAL FATIGUE SOLUTIONS .......................................1343 U
CREAFORM INC. ..........................................................1324 MFE ENTERPRISES/MFE RENTALS ...............................1343 ULSO TECH CO. LTD. ...................................................1361
CYGNUS INSTRUMENTS LTD. .......................................1324 MIRION TECHNOLOGIES ..............................................1343 ULTRACON-SERVICE LLC ..............................................1361
D MISTRAS GROUP INC. .................................................1344 ULTRAN GROUP ...........................................................1361
DAKOTA ULTRASONICS ...............................................1324 MITCORP ....................................................................1344 UNIWEST ....................................................................1361
DANATRONICS ............................................................1324 MPM PRODUCTS INC. .................................................1344 USA BORESCOPES ......................................................1361
DANTEC DYNAMICS GMBH...........................................1327 N V
DIRECT CONVERSION ..................................................1327 NDT CLASSROOM INC. ................................................1344 VAREX IMAGING CORP. ...............................................1362
DOLPHITECH ...............................................................1327 NDT ITALIANA SRL ......................................................1344 VECTOR NDT TRAINING ...............................................1362
DÜRR NDT GMBH & CO. KG ........................................1327 NDT SEALS INC. ..........................................................1345 VERIPHASE INC. ..........................................................1362
E NDT SOLUTIONS .........................................................1345 VERMON NDT .............................................................1362
ECHO ULTRASONICS ...................................................1327 NDT SYSTEMS INC. .....................................................1345 VFG LEASING & FINANCE ............................................1362
ECLIPSE SCIENTIFIC .....................................................1328 NDTMA .......................................................................1345 VIDISCO LTD. ..............................................................1362
EDDYFI ........................................................................1328 NEWCO INC. ................................................................1345 VIRTUAL MEDIA INTEGRATION .....................................1363
EMWORKS ..................................................................1328 NIKON METROLOGY INC. .............................................1345 VISICONSULT X-RAY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS GMBH ..1363
ETHER NDE LTD. ..........................................................1328 NORTH STAR IMAGING INC. (SILVER SPONSOR) ..........1346 VIZAAR INDUSTRIAL IMAGING ....................................1363
EXTENDE......................................................................1328 NOVO DR LTD. .............................................................1346 VJ TECHNOLOGIES INC. ................................................1363
F NOVOSOUND LTD. ......................................................1346 VOLUME GRAPHICS INC. .............................................1363
FLAWTECH INC. ...........................................................1331 NUCLEOM INC. ............................................................1346 W
FLEET NAV SYSTEMS ...................................................1331 O WARREN ASSOCIATES ................................................1364
FOERSTER INSTRUMENTS INC. ....................................1331 OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL ASSET INTEGRITY .......1346 WESDYNE AMDATA .....................................................1364
FUJIFILM NORTH AMERICA ..........................................1331 OCEANSCAN USA ........................................................1348 WILLICK ENGINEERING CO. INC. ..................................1364
G OLYMPUS AMERICA INC. (SILVER SPONSOR) ..............1348 X
GB INSPECTION SYSTEMS LTD. ...................................1331 P X-SCAN IMAGING CORP. ..............................................1364
GE MEASUREMENT AND SENSING ..............................1332 PACIFIC IMAGING LLC .................................................1348 XARION LASER ACOUSTICS GMBH ..............................1364
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY SYSTEMS INC. ........................1332 PAN AMERICAN INDUSTRIES INC. ...............................1348 XI’AN BROAD DIMENSION OPTOELECTRONIC
GOLDEN ENGINEERING INC. ........................................1332 PEAK NDT ....................................................................1349 TECHNOLOGY ..............................................................1365
GOM GMBH ................................................................1332 PELTEC SERVICES INC...................................................1349 XIAMEN MITON OPTRONICS CO. .................................1365
GUANGZHOU DOPPLER ELECTRONIC PH TOOL REFERENCE STANDARDS ...............................1349 Y
TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD. .............................................1332 THE PHASED ARRAY CO. .............................................1349 YXLON COMET TECHNOLOGIES ...................................1365
GUIDED ULTRASONICS LTD. ........................................1332 PHOENIX INSPECTION SYSTEMS LTD. ..........................1349 Z
GUIDED WAVE ANALYSIS LLC ......................................1332 PHOENIX LLC ..............................................................1350 ZETEC, INC. .................................................................1365
GULMAY ......................................................................1333 PINNACLE X-RAY SOLUTIONS ......................................1350 ZHENGZHOU RUNDE DELLONSCOPE CO. LTD. ..............1365
H PIXXGEN CORP. ...........................................................1350
HAMAMATSU CORP. ....................................................1333 PRAGMA .....................................................................1350
HELLIER .......................................................................1333 PREMIUM INSPECTION & TESTING ..............................1350
HI-SPEC SYSTEMS LTD. ................................................1333 PROCEQ ......................................................................1353
HOCKER INC. ...............................................................1333

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1280 720 (720P HD) in 3IG Corp. Ltd.’s inspectors safe and easy access to perform
6 mm, 4 mm, and 3 mm insert probes. 3IG nondestructive testing for mechanical
Corp. Ltd.’s IDEALBORESCOPE can provide integrity purposes and to check for
the right solution to global users based on corrosion under insulation (CUI). APF
our slogan: Powering Your Inspection. inspection ports are designed to meet
3E NDT LLC Standing out as a RVI and VT solution process temperatures ranging from –120 to
La Porte, Texas provider, our company’s various product 650 °C (–185 to 1200 °F). They are
Booth 725 lines with flexible strategies help available in a wide variety of shapes and
3E NDT manufactures and distributes a wide distributors and users move forward sizes. APF inspection ports are weather-
range of NDT equipment and accessories for together with 3IG Corp. tight, reliable, durable, safe, and easy to
radiographic testing (RT), magnetic particle install. As a worldwide leader of inspection
testing (MT), ultrasonic testing (UT), remote A-Fab Co. Inc. port technology, we appreciate your
visual inspection (RVI), and miscellaneous Gibsonton, Florida continued support.
applications. The range of equipment Booth 851
includes Agfa film, darkrooms, light- Since 1970, A-Fab Co. Inc. has been
emitting diode film viewers, densitometers, providing leaded products for industrial,
X-ray film hangers, film dryers, film medical diagnostic, nuclear, and therapy
processors, image quality indicators, lead applications. These products include all
markers, lead marker tapes, stainless steel items necessary to the construction of
tanks, radiation warning boards, rate alarm radiographic facilities as well as special
design of leaded cabinetry, operator
meters, survey meters, digital equipment, Acoustic Technology Group
computed radiography imaging plates, X-ray barriers, neutron doors, and custom
Grandville, Michigan
tubes, X-ray crawlers, real-time radiography designed modular X-ray rooms and X-ray
Booth 426
systems, pie gauges, calibration blocks, inspection cabinets. Prior association with
Acoustic Technology Group Inc. (ATG),
step wedges, alternating current/direct sales and service of radiographic
founded in 1991, is a leading distributor of
current yokes, magnetic particle testing equipment and accessories allows
acoustic emission testing (AE) products in
machines, liquid penetrant testing customers to benefit from A-Fab Co.’s
the United States and Canada. ATG provides
equipment, consumables, ultrasonic unique knowledge of how the products are
the latest state-of-the-art in AE systems,
gauges, transducers, RVI equipment, and utilized and an understanding of their
instruments, sensors, and accessories. We
vacuum boxes. Our sister company, needs relative to special product design
distribute OEM products and provide
Industrial Nuclear Co. Inc., manufactures and departmental traffic patterns.
customer training and support in the United
gamma ray projectors, IR-100 iridium, and States and Canada, representing Vallen
selenium sources for all gamma ray Systeme GmbH, KRN Services, Score Atlanta
projectors: a one-stop shop for NDT. Inc. (DECI), Xarion Laser Acoustics, and
Acoustic Emission Consulting (AEC).
ACS-Solutions GmbH
Saarbrucken, Germany
Booth 649
Access Plug Flange Inc. Acoustic Control Systems (ACS Group),
3IG Corp. Ltd. Houston and Dallas, Texas
established in 1991, is an international
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Booth 641
provider of innovative ultrasonic testing
Booth 447 Access Plug Flange Inc. (APF) manufactures
equipment and professional inspection and
Image quality is the first priority of video inspection ports that are installed on the
engineering services. The definitive
borescopes for global end users, and now insulation jacket of insulated pipelines,
distinction of ACS products is their high
it goes into the phase of high definition vessels, tanks, and equipment, allowing
technological level and ease of use,
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matching the requirements of professional significantly lower your costs of operation.
users in a wide range of practical We are pleased to serve many of the largest
applications. The main goal of our and most sophisticated industrial firms in
instruments is reaching top technical the world, with clients in the refinery,
characteristics with affordable costs in chemical, pipeline, storage tank, power
combination with the perfect warranty generation (fossil, nuclear, and wind), pulp
service and methodical support of our and paper, aerospace, automotive, and
customers. Besides developing, pharmaceutical industries. To find out how Advanced Inspection Technologies
manufacturing, and distributing novel Acuren can help you improve efficiency, Melbourne, Florida
testing instruments and systems, ACS reduce costs, and extend asset life, visit Booth 803
Group offers highly professional and acuren.com today. Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) is
innovative inspection services on your borescope source. AIT is a leading
supplier of remote visual inspection
infrastructural concrete and metallic objects Advanced Corrosion Technologies &
equipment for industrial applications. AIT
all over the world. We have introduced Training LLC
ultrasonic tomography in nondestructive also rents video borescopes, fiberscopes,
Sulphur, Louisiana
testing, and our customers benefit from and pipe cameras for a variety of
Booth 220
quantitative evaluation of inspection results inspections. AIT is currently the fastest
Advanced Corrosion Technologies &
with modern 2D and 3D imaging. More growing provider of remote visual
Training has been a leader in corrosion
than 25 years of in-field testing experience inspection tools worldwide. We are
inspection services for more than 15 years.
in combination with scientific signal and committed to providing the best possible
Our strategic partnerships with our clients
image processing techniques and modern inspection tools, with the highest level of
help each site we work with to maintain a
manufacturing processes allow ACS to be customer service and technical expertise.
proactive strategy for inspections,
always technologically advanced. With AIT you can always expect quality
compliance, safety, and performance. Our
products, great customer service, and
clients turn to us to improve their corrosion
expert technical knowledge. Our expertise
inspection and asset integrity programs.
and a vast knowledge base helps our
We work collaboratively to solve issues with
customers quickly and efficiently conduct
cost overruns, budgetary issues, and
visual inspections of the most remote
unplanned shutdowns. Our focus on
reaches of their plant and equipment. Our
alignment with our clients minimizes
product and application expertise allow AIT
reporting discrepancies between multiple
to partner with customers to provide
vendors and partners with varying
solutions to their applications in the most
Acuren reporting methods. Clients rely on us to
effective and precise manner possible. AIT
La Porte, Texas provide innovative solutions that combine
currently has customers in dozens of
Booth 903 state-of-the-art technology with
countries and on five continents. Industries
Acuren provides state-of-the-art NDT, conventional labor methods to create the
we serve include power generation,
inspection, engineering, and rope access– most efficient and effective asset integrity
petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and
enabled industrial services, delivered management programs. Clients who work
paper, precision manufacturing, process
throughout 80 locations and utilizing 4000 with us experience a variety of results,
plants, aerospace, and others.
employees across North America and the including improved asset management and
United Kingdom. Committed to delivering a asset reliability tracking to better predict
higher level of reliability, Acuren provides future costs; enhanced reporting that saves
an unrivaled spectrum of services to costs and labor hours for your staff; and
support the safe operation of industrial improved key performance measures on
assets. We achieve high standards of safety asset management. Our focus is on
and quality because of our focus on delivering on-time and on-budget
training and investments in procedures and completion of key initiatives while Advanced OEM Solutions
technology. Acuren’s services include improving your KPI saves. Visit us at Cincinnati, Ohio
conventional and advanced nondestructive Booth 220 to learn more about how our Booth 513
testing and examination, inspection, emphasis on strategic asset integrity Advanced OEM Solutions (AOS) is a
engineering, rope access–enabled services management programs is one of the key manufacturer of high-performance and
(industrial services and NDT), and ways we can help you get better results. versatile phased array and multichannel
condition-based monitoring services. Our ultrasound instruments perfect for custom
commitment to innovation is ongoing, as is solutions. Phased array configurations
our development of programs to support include 16/16, 32/32, 64/64, 16/128,
the integrity of your assets and to 32/128, 128/128, 256/256, and more.

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Multichannel instruments are available with have examined the growing use of X-ray owners so you can provide results
16 and 32 channels. AOS also produces computed tomography as well as how the immediately. MetaField automates the
next-generation ultrasound phased array Royal Navy ensures its fleet of helicopters entire NDT process—from project initiation,
technology such as full-matrix capture (FMC) are safe and ready for action. Every aspect scheduling, and dispatch to providing real-
and total focusing method (TFM) for high- of an aircraft is covered by the magazine’s time access to test specifications, enabling
resolution imaging, and ultrahigh-speed in-depth features from airframes through to voice/text/photo input, creating reports,
data transfer rates over 160 MB/s. Our subsystems and components, including and collecting signatures for approval.
instruments are open, allowing users to R&D testing and evaluation, flight testing Learn more about how Agile Frameworks
customize the software user interface. Also, and certification, production and assembly connects the NDE industry to provide
OEM-PA is small enough to be portable or testing, inspection and quality traceable, verifiable, and complete integrity
mount on mechanical scanners, saving management, operational test and management for more than 14 000+ users
costs on long and unreliable umbilical evaluation, and maintenance engineering via a cloud-based mobile solution at
cables. Service companies, integrators, test and inspection. Visit agileframeworks.com.
and researchers can all benefit! Visit aerospacetestinginternational.com, which is
aos-ndt.com or contact@aos-ndt.com. updated daily, and sign up for our weekly AIP
newsletter to receive aerospace testing Houston, Texas
Advanced Test Equipment Rentals stories delivered direct to your inbox every Booth 420
San Diego, California week. Aerospace Testing International is AIP is an authorized stocking distributor of
Booth 543 read by approximately 22 000 named and products used to perform magnetic particle
Since 1981, Advanced Test Equipment individually requested test evaluation testing (MT), dye penetrant, ultrasonic
Rentals (ATEC) has served as a global professionals throughout the global civil, testing (UT), radiographic testing (RT), visual
provider of test equipment rentals for NDT military, and space sectors. testing (VT), and physical techniques of
and inspection purposes, offering long- and NDT. Stocked products include those made
short-term rentals of test equipment. ATEC by Magnaflux, Dakota Ultrasonics,
carries ultrasonic flaw detectors, helium Spectronics Corp., Carestream, Chemetall,
leak detectors, borescopes, videoscopes, Circle Systems Inc., Parker Research Corp.,
thermal cameras, XRF analyzers, Met-L-Chek Co., Technisonic Industries Inc.,
micrometers, and more, built by leading Ray Check Manufacturing Inc., R.B. Annis
manufacturers from Thermo Fisher Instruments Inc., and Sherwin Inc.
Scientific, Olympus, FLIR, Fluke, and others. Agile Frameworks
ATEC also provides test equipment for Minneapolis, Minnesota Amerapex Corp.
industries such as automotive, alternative Booth 244 Houston, Texas
energy, aerospace, telecommunications, Agile Frameworks’ MetaField subscription- Booth 344
defense, semiconductor, medical, consumer based software-as-a-solution (SaaS) Amerapex provides NDT and mechanical
electronics, and more. We have an platform enables streamlined project integrity solutions for the hydrocarbon
A2LA/ISO 17025 accredited calibration lab lifecycle workflows for successful, extractive and process industries. Our
in house with same-day shipping available. consistent NDT and nondestructive network of facilities in the Americas,
See what’s in stock today—call (800) 404- examination (NDE). Help your clients Europe, and Asia connects our clients to
2832 or visit atecorp.com. minimize costly downtime and maximize suppliers and our technical staff. Our
equipment performance by leveraging inspection services range from concept,
Aerospace Testing International MetaField’s scheduling and dispatch system feasibility, design, and project
Dorking, United Kingdom that is integrated with the workflow process implementation to operation and
Booth 325 to ensure your technicians and inspectors maintenance as well as shutdown
Aerospace Testing International is the can quickly execute once they arrive on the management. Amerapex specializes in
world’s only publication dedicated to the job site. MetaField supports the complete large-scale corrosion under insulation
international aerospace testing, evaluation, range of NDT and NDE services including programs utilizing the most advanced NDT
and inspection industries. The magazine weld verification, X-ray or ultrasonic testing, methods on the market today, as an
features news and analysis of the latest field observations, asset and equipment example. Our inspection offerings are all
testing technologies and the strategies and inspections, laboratory testing, and much inclusive of your inspection needs.
specialist services engineers need to know more. Collect and enter data at the job site
about to ensure compliance with current on your tablet or smartphone with our
and future critical standards of mobile-friendly, voice-enabled software
performance, safety, reliability, durability, solution. Compare results to specifications,
and quality. Aerospace Testing International create reports, and obtain electronic
regularly focuses on NDT. Recent articles signatures from project managers and
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American Welding Society and presents multiple challenges including
SPONSOR
Miami, Florida security and storage costs. Less-than-ideal
Booth 205 storage environments can accelerate
The American Welding Society (AWS) was deteriorating image quality. AMS will work
founded in 1919 as a nonprofit organization to implement a radiographic digitizing
with a global mission to advance the process that turns archived films into high-
science, technology, and application of quality Blu-ray discs or data for cloud
welding and allied joining and cutting storage. This allows instant access to files
American Institute of processes, including brazing, soldering, and as needed and without the inefficiencies
Nondestructive Testing – SILVER thermal spraying. In 2014, AWS opened and costs associated with searching
SPONSOR AWS Asia based in Hong Kong, China, with through outdated file rooms. Digitized
Baxter, Minnesota a second office in Beijing. AWS offers radiographs do not suffer image
Booth 910 industry-respected certifications, industry- degradation but are stored on 50- to 100-
The American Institute of Nondestructive trusted technical standards development, year Blu-ray discs. AMS provides two
Testing is a licensed private career school technical standards sales, education, original Blu-ray discs to allow for disaster
that offers a Nondestructive Testing membership, and expositions. recovery planning. Blu-ray discs and data
Technologies certificate training program for for cloud storage are indexed and feature
individuals wanting to start a new career in Amotus Solutions DICONDE search and retrieval capability.
NDT. We also provide corporate NDT training Quebec City, Quebec, Canada AMS digitized radiographs are easily shared
for companies nationwide. Our curriculum Booth 755 globally. Digitize new radiographs to easily
includes both hands-on training in our fully Amotus is a design house offering access and store images. AMS has been
equipped 836.13 m2 (9000 ft2) Baxter, electronic and software developments for approved by the US Air Force as a provider
Minnesota, facility and online training, as customized interconnected solutions. It is a of quality digitizing services. AMS can
well as training onsite at your facility in the company of 23 engineers and programmers provide NAID AAA-certified secure storage
following methods and techniques: united to connect a smart, sustainable, and for your files prior to digitizing and can also
radiographic testing (RT) Level I and II, responsible world. Over the past five years, digitize selected films on demand. Most
digital and computed radiographic testing the company has completed more than importantly, our secure recycling process
Level I and II, ultrasonic testing (UT) Level I 60 years of service projects in 15 countries. for digitized radiographs and those
and II, magnetic particle testing (MT) Level I It has earned the trust of world-class radiographs that have passed their required
and II, liquid penetrant testing (PT) Level I companies for its precise skills in the retention period will often yield a rebate
and II, visual testing (VT) Level I and II, and development of simple, efficient, open, and based upon the silver reclaimed in the
40-hour Radiation Safety Officer training. certified connected objects. The company recycling process. Visit our website at
We also offer training in the following has been working in the NDT market for the AMSstoreandshred.com or contact us at
courses: Level III prep courses for RT, UT, past five years. (800) 262-2344.
MT, PT, and VT methods and Certified
Welding Inspector exam prep course. Our Arrow-Tech Inc.
administrative staff and in-house instructors Rolla, North Dakota
are here to answer any questions you may Booth 214
have and to help you make the right Arrow-Tech Inc. manufactures direct-reading
decisions to complete your company’s dosimeters and offers a full line of radiation
training needs. Feel free to contact us detection products. Arrow-Tech maintains a
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 customer base that extends worldwide and
p.m. CST, at (855) 313-0325 or email us AMS Store and Shred LLC provides our customers with quality,
anytime at instructor@trainingndt.com. Lake in the Hills, Illinois reliable, and durable products and services.
Booth 808 Arrow-Tech provides calibration services in
AMS Store and Shred is a leader in accordance with ANSI standards that are
providing key digitizing services to the NDT traceable to NIST standards. Arrow-Tech can
industry. Today the NDT industry is moving calibrate most types of direct-reading and
through a technological evolution blending electronic dosimeters and survey meters
both digital and traditional radiographic and area monitors with geiger-mueller tube
methodologies. AMS is your partner in detectors. Industries served include health
managing both radiographic libraries along physics, homeland security, first responders,
with newly created images. Extended NDT, industrial, and medical radiography.
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Australian Institute for NDT Blatek Inc.
Abbottsford, Victoria, Australia State College, Pennsylvania
Booth 1018 Booth 217
The Asia-Pacific Conference for Non- Blatek Inc. is a manufacturer of custom
Destructive Testing (APCNDT) is October ultrasonic transducers for the medical and
2021. The 16th APCNDT is promising to be industrial markets. Our specialty lies in
the must-attend regional event for the Asia high-performance custom prototype
Pacific Federation for Non-Destructive development transitioning to scaled-up
Testing (APFNDT) and its member societies.
Baugh & Weedon Ltd. manufacturing. We provide short
Hereford, United Kingdom
The conference will include a technical and turnaround times for standard and
Booth 1032
scientific program along with technical semistandard single element, phased
Baugh & Weedon will be introducing a
educational workshops presented by arrays, and accessories for the industrial
range of new products at the 2018 ASNT
Australia’s leading NDT and condition market. Our transducers are designed and
Annual Conference. Our new UV lamps
monitoring experts. Parallel sessions will manufactured to customer specifications in
range (portable and fixed) is proving to be
present the latest developments in the field our facility in State College, Pennsylvania.
popular and the portable models will be
of research and NDT in all major industrial We custom design piezo-composite,
featured. The recent released BondCheck
areas. Hosted by the Australian Institute for housings, wedges, cable interconnects, and
will be showcased, supporting pitch-catch,
Non-Destructive Testing (AINDT), the other accessories to provide our customers
resonance, and MIA bond-testing modes.
conference and the exhibition aim to with the transducer that best meets their
The pitch and catch dry-coupled bond
combine the best of technological requirements and gives them a competitive
testing mode features rapid detection of
enhancements of NDT and condition advantage. We are adamant about staying
defects in laminate, bonded, and sandwich
monitoring while at the same time offer ahead of the curve and providing cutting-
structures. Baugh & Weedon’s reputation
unique opportunities to establish contacts edge technology and practices through the
has been built on the development and
and exchange experience and ideas knowledge and experience of our
manufacture of magnetic particle inspection
between participants and visitors. Set on development team composed of industry
(MPI) benches and pen lines. The smaller
the shores of picturesque Port Phillip Bay, leaders. The Blatek design team
portable MPI bench, the PBU 350, will
Melbourne, the capital of the state of encompasses a wide variety of expertise,
showcase all the key features and build
Victoria, the site is rich in aesthetics. including mechanical and electrical
quality of our core product range. Other
The city’s charm is characterized by its engineering, materials science, and
products from our range that can be found
enchanting laneways, stunning waterfront acoustic physics. Through continuous
alongside our more established products
precincts, and trendy neighborhoods, and improvement of R&D efforts, we are always
are the Lumaflux dual-light meter and
provides an endless range of shopping expanding our product knowledge and
field strength meter and the Truflux,
hot spots and attractions in weird and manufacturing processes in order to
a lightweight and robust magnetic flux
wonderful locations. Melbourne facts: it’s increase quality and keep costs down.
leakage testing tank floor scanner, together
Australia’s multicultural hub, representing Please stop by our booth to discuss your
with a full range of MPI accessories.
over 230 ethnic communities with more customization needs with Blatek or inquire
than 180 languages spoken; it is safe about our standard offerings. We look
and secure; it has more than 6500 forward to working with you!
restaurants, cafés, bistros, and bars within
15 minutes of the city center; British Institute of NDT
and it is the leading destination in Australia Northampton, United Kingdom
for major international sporting and cultural Booth 924
events, including the Spring Racing Carnival The British Institute of Non-Destructive
(featuring the Melbourne Cup), the Testing (BINDT) is the focal point of NDT in
Australian Open Tennis Championships, and the United Kingdom, and, in addition, is
the Boxing Day Cricket Test. increasingly taking on a global perspective.
The objective of BINDT is to promote the
AUT Solutions advancement of the science and practice of
Fulshear, Texas NDT, condition monitoring, diagnostic
Booth 740 engineering, and all other materials and
AUT Solutions, a leader in advanced NDT quality testing disciplines. In achieving this
products, specializes in turnkey automated aim, BINDT, which employs a permanent
corrosion mapping and weld inspection staff at its Northampton, United Kingdom,
equipment for the petrochemical, power headquarters, relies on the support of
generation, and aerospace industries. personnel, companies, and other
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organizations in the NDT industry. service. We are a member of Calder Group,
Membership is open to anyone or any Europe’s largest producer of lead sheet and
company working in or having an interest in lead-based engineered products with
NDT, condition monitoring, diagnostic operating subsidiaries in Germany, France,
engineering, or materials and quality Netherlands, Ireland, and United Kingdom.
testing in general. Please visit our booth No other company in our industry has our
and pick up a copy of the institute’s journal, Calder Industrial history, capabilities, experience, and
Insight, as well as other publications and Chester, United Kingdom expertise. Whatever your requirement; you
information. Booth 947 can trust Calder Industrial, the lead
With over 260 years’ experience, Calder is engineering experts, to deliver. Call +44 (0)
Bruker the United Kingdom’s leading supplier of 1244 390093 or visit calderlead.co.uk.
Kennewick, Washington lead sheet and lead engineering products to
Booth 307 the construction, healthcare, aerospace, Canon
Bruker, a technology leader in elemental defense, industrial, marine, oil and gas, Melville, New York
analysis equipment, produces both security, and research markets. In that time, Booth 239
handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) alloy we have cast, filled, milled, machined, Canon’s Industrial Products Division offers a
analyzers and handheld laser-induced extruded, cold forged, and fabricated variety of products, such as manufacturing
breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) alloy millions of tons of lead. We have supplied equipment (including physical vapor
analyzers. The S1 TITAN is among the deposition [PVD], lithography, and wafer
lightest (1.5 kg) handheld XRF tube-based bonding) and components (including X-ray
analyzers on the market today. Based on source, vacuum gauges, brushless motors,
silicon drift detector technology, the and Galvano scanners) for various
S1 TITAN provides rapid alloy grade industries. The PVD, wafer bonding, X-ray
identification and chemistry for elements source, and vacuum gauge products are
from magnesium to uranium. The EOS 500 offered by Canon ANELVA, which has
handheld LIBS analyzer gives an incredibly 50 years of experience in vacuum
fast (3 s) analysis of light metal alloys technology and related equipment
containing lithium, magnesium, aluminum, manufacturing. The products in the
or silicon. Compared with handheld XRF, G-311MH series X-ray source are
light element analysis with the EOS 500 is designed for in-line and off-line
approximately 10 faster. nondestructive X-ray inspection, such
as X-ray radioscopy and computed
millions of components to more than a tomography. The microfocus X-ray source
thousand customers, both in the United has a transmissive target and sealed X-ray
Kingdom and around the world, providing tube. The X-ray source features a diamond
them with what they require, when they window; a thin (0.29 mm) X-ray target
need it, and always competitively priced. window capable of high geometrical
Calder Industrial works closely with X-ray magnification; high resolution and high
system OEMs to offer design, manufacture, power simultaneously—4 μm L/S resolution
and installation of steel-framed lead-lined at 10 W; wide X-ray cone angle (168°);
X-ray cabinets and X-ray enclosures. All quick warm-up—operational within three
sheet metal components used to clad our minutes of powering on; fast image
fabricated steel-framed lead shield are capture—0 to 110 kV within 1 s; and
manufactured in house on our CNC laser embedded pulse X-ray irradiation mode,
cutter and brake press. This enables Calder which allows for on/off X-ray irradiation at
to offer a complete turnkey design, pulse setting. Visit us at Booth 239 or
manufacture, installation, and usa.canon.com/industrial to learn more
commissioning service to meet our about the X-ray source and other products.
customers’ specific NDT requirements.
Based in the United Kingdom but servicing
customers throughout the globe, Calder
provide mission-critical solutions with a
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Carestream NDT CGM CIGIEMME SpA high-tech industrial development zone of
Rochester, New York Opera Milano, Italy Chongqing, China. We specialize in
Booth 533 Booth 453 manufacturing, researching, and marketing
Carestream NDT serves the radiographic CGM CIGIEMME SpA was established in NDT instruments, including various kinds
NDT community by producing products such 1958 by Corrado Gianni. The company of hardness testers, thickness gauges,
as film, processing chemicals, and occupies an area of more than 10 000 m2, roughness testers, flaw detectors, and
computed and digital radiography systems housing offices, production works, a more. Our factory is certified ISO 9001:2008.
with Industrex NDT software, custom warehouse, and storage. At present, CGM All products are CE and FCC certified. In
inspection reports, and a complete range of CIGIEMME employs 50 people, besides 2011, the Leeb Ultrasonic Flaw Detector
image archiving solutions. Our HPX-1 and enjoying four representative branches in received the State Science and Technology
HPX-Pro digital systems are both recognized Italy and approximately 20 independent Innovation Fund in China. We also got the
by Frost & Sullivan as award winning in the organizations abroad. CGM CIGIEMME has Certificate of Utility Model Patent for the
NDT industry for product differentiation been certified ISO 9001 since 1997 and measuring platform in the same year. In
and innovation. Our Industrex software ISO 14001 since 2008, a further warranty 2018, we acquired Shanghai Fengbo
solutions are designed for optimum of reliability for our customers. Our core Instruments Co. Ltd. and further expanded
performance in the most challenging business is magnetic particle inspection our production line of bench hardness
inspection conditions. Industrex products systems and liquid penetrant inspection testers. At present, we have developed
provide the flexibility and power needed for systems; the engineering and agents and distributors in 28 countries
NDT in large production and maintenance manufacturing of equipment, automatic around the world, with our main markets
facilities, small inspection shops, and systems, accessories, detection products, in Asia and Europe. Offering technical
remote field operations. And all of our and consumables; ultrasonic and eddy innovation, high-quality products,
digital solutions are still designed, current inspection systems in partnership competitive prices, and satisfactory service,
engineered, and manufactured in the US. with Olympus NDT; and the engineering and Leeb aims to be the most valuable brand in
Whether you are running conventional film manufacturing of in-line turnkey systems the NDT measuring field.
or digital technology, we can supply it. Visit for pipes, bars (round and square), and
carestream.com/ndt to learn more. forgings. Main fields of application include Chowdur Services Inc.
aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, railway, Commerce Township, Michigan
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology steel plants, and foundry and forge. Booth 757
Maple Grove, Minnesota
Booth 908 Chemetall US Inc. SPONSOR
The Industrial Metrology business group is New Providence, New Jersey
a leading manufacturer of multidimensional Booth 917
metrology solutions. These include Chemetall is a supplier of products to the
coordinate measuring machines and aerospace, automotive, power generation, Circle Systems Inc. – PLATINUM
metrology software for the automotive, and general industries focusing on the SPONSOR
aircraft, mechanical engineering, plastics, cleaning, protection, and testing of critical Hinckley, Illinois
and medical technology industries. The parts. With its well-known Ardrox, Britemor, Booth 719
business group additionally offers a broad and Naftoseal brands, Chemetall offers a Circle Systems Inc. manufactures magnetic
spectrum of customer services with complete specialty chemicals portfolio particles and markets a full range of
measuring houses and competence services including sealants, NDT products, corrosion- materials and equipment used in magnetic
in the proximity of its customers around the inhibiting compounds, cleaners, particle inspection (MPI). With over 40 years
globe. The Industrial Metrology business pretreatment technologies, and paint of experience in the chemistry of magnetic
group is headquartered in Oberkochen, strippers. The Chemetall products provide particles, we continue to improve the
Germany. Production and development excellent performance and one of the most formulations and manufacturing processes
sites outside Germany are located in Maple environmentally friendly and regulatory of our products. We have also partnered
Grove, Minnesota; Shanghai, China; and acceptable product lines in the world. Visit with state-of-the-art equipment
Bangalore, India. The business group is aerospace.chemetall.com. manufacturers to offer our customers
allocated to the Research & Quality one source for all their MPI needs. Our
Technology segment. Around 5900 Chongqing Leeb Instrument Co. Ltd. Mi-Glow® fluorescent/nonfluorescent wet
employees work for the segment, Chongqing, China method materials, Sir-Chem® dry powders,
generating revenues totaling €1.356 billion Booth 738 and CircleSafe® aerosol brands are used
in fiscal year 2014–2015. Chongqing Leeb Instrument Co. Ltd., the by leading steelmaking, aerospace,
largest NDT instruments factory in the automotive, and petroleum companies
southwest of China, is located in the around the world. Circle Systems continues
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to offer the newest and most innovative MPI which reduces time and costs—especially
materials, such as dual-response particles important for measurements in restricted
that can be used in visible light or UV-A zones such us unoccupied areas of nuclear
situations, and light-emitting diode UV power plants. Our newest model of sensor
lamps for optimum distribution at low with a possibility of constant measurement
COMET Industrial X-Ray
operating costs. We remain a company that of surfaces over 500 °C developed together
Shelton, Connecticut
is focused on innovation and customer with the company Delta Test GmbH
Booth 845
service. Stop by the booth to meet our (Germany) is also represented.
COMET Industrial X-Ray develops and
knowledgeable and friendly sales team to
manufactures metal/ceramic X-ray
find out how your inspection process can
sources and related components for the
benefit from using Circle Systems’ products.
nondestructive examination of materials in
You can also learn more about us at
the automotive, aviation pipeline, and steel
circlesafe.com.
industries, and also for the stationary and
mobile inspection of baggage and cargo at
CM Diagnostics Sp. z o.o. airports and borders. COMET constantly works
Krakow Pouthisat, Poland to improve and simplify X-ray technology and
Booth 328
Cobra Scientific
Santa Ana, California is a trusted engineering partner to well-known
CM Diagnostics focuses on EMAT companies. COMET’s innovative technology
Booth 209
technology and coercimetry (nondestructive has become the basis for an unprecedented
Cobra Scientific LLC was formed by long-
technique based on measurements of the combination of performance and
term NDT industry specialists in support of
magnetic characteristics of metal coercive compactness that offers customers a new
custom application requirements. Not only
force) based on research, original realm of possibilities in the development of
have we manufactured a full line of
developments, and over 30 years of their end systems. COMET Industrial X-Ray is a
standard ultrasonic transducers with
expertise of the Ukrainian company Special product area of the Modules & Components
individual engineering experiences for over
Scientific Engineering. CM Diagnostics division of the COMET Group.
40 years, but we also offer highly
offers complex solutions from expertise to
specialized solutions in custom configured
customized industrial equipment and
transducers, fixturing, automation, and
distributes manual gauges for NDT. The
more. With in-house manual and CNC
magnetic analyzer MA-05 measures at least
abilities as well as several additive
six parameters of hysteresis loop (including
manufacturing machines, we can bring
coercivity, residual induction, magnetic
concept to reality in very short order.
conductivity, loop area, and relaxation
Incorporating this in-house know-how, we
parameters). The magnetic structurescope
work with industry leaders in
(coercimeter) MC-04-H is used for the Consultco Inc.
instrumentation, control, and software to
evaluation of fatigue and residual life of Blainville, Quebec, Canada
integrate and provide our customers the
metal and for measuring residual stresses Booth 213
best consolidated solution for their
and fatigue of new and repaired welded We are a NDT inspection company in the
application. This may include simply a
joints, efficiency of heat treatment in industrial composite industry. We inspect
probe, probe and fixture, or any
welding, and various metal hardening in the piping, reservoirs, and scrubbers used
requirement from concept to design and
mechanical engineering, as well as the in very corrosive environments. Inspections
manufacture. Our range of capabilities
evaluation of the fatigue state of equipment are completed using ultrasound,
includes small manual encoding scanners
from austenitic stainless steels. thermography, and microscope. Enclosed
and autonomous transportable scanners to
Applications include high-pressure vessels, space training has been completed by all
substantial multi-axis motion control and
pipelines, spherical tanks, storage tanks, members of the inspection team for safe
data acquisition systems. Listening to our
boilers, steam turbine rotors, impellers, internal inspection. In hard to reach areas,
customers’ requirements, we take the lead
blades, and bolts. Industries include water we will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
in providing collaborative suggestions and
power plants, steam power plants, onshore to visually inspect. Both internal and
ideas and provide a single source solution
and offshore wind farms, nuclear reactors, external UAVs are available. Internal UAV
to the requirement. Stop by Booth 209 and
the oil and gas industry (including coiled inspection saves the time and money of
let’s get reacquainted and discuss what we
tubing), and metalworking. The EMAT opening an enclosed space for personnel
can do for you! Call (714) 340-7950, visit
Thickness Gauge UT-04 EMA (Delta) is used entry. Complete drawings by Consultco of
CobraScientific.com, or email
for thickness measurements through air new fiberglass equipment can be used to
gregs@cobrascientific.com or
gaps and/or paint and protective coatings obtain quotes from different fabricators.
rayr@cobrascientific.com.
up to 3 mm, without the use of couplant, This reduces the time fabricators require for
designing and enables the end user to
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is using the same design. Engineering results, safety, and integrity assessment. Dakota Ultrasonics
services include finite element analysis Working with 3D portable scanners and Scotts Valley, California
(FEA). FEA is used to maximize the design of Pipecheck software, Pipecheck is fast, easy- Booth 303
a new or retrofit vessel, pipe, ducting, or to-use, and provides reliable and accurate We manufacture a complete line of portable
other types of composite equipment. repeatable results. For more information, ultrasonic thickness gauges, flaw detectors,
visit creaform3d.com. bolt monitors, and transducers. Our
CoreStar International Corp. thickness gauge line includes both dual-
Irwin, Pennsylvania and single-element gauges with a variety of
Booth 222 models and specific features. The flaw
CoreStar International is an industry leader detectors are full-featured gauges designed
in eddy current inspection products. We to meet a variety of industry requirements.
supply a full line of eddy current test Our bolt monitor very accurately measures
instruments, software, probes (array, the stress, elongation, load, percent strain,
bobbin, remote field testing, and more), and raw time in fasteners, and is currently
probe pushers, tester-in-pusher (TIP), and Cygnus Instruments Ltd. being used by the National Aeronautics and
automated robotic data acquisition Jacksonville, Florida Space Administration. Come by and see us
systems. Our products are used worldwide Booth 552 in Booth 303.
in major industries such as nuclear steam Cygnus Instruments Ltd. is a leading and
generator inspection, nuclear balance of trusted manufacturer of ultrasonic testing
plant inspections, and other power equipment since 1983. Pioneers of the
generation, as well as petrochemical multiple-echo measuring technique, which
markets. Please visit corestar-corp.com for has long since been an industry standard
more details. CoreStar will be displaying for through coating measurement of material
two new products and a first look at a thickness, Cygnus thrives on developing a Danatronics
revolutionary technology for eddy current product range that is application-driven and Danvers, Massachusetts
tubing inspections. The OMNI Helium is a user-focused. Cygnus provides both Booth 203
battery-powered portable eddy current underwater and surface-based ultrasonic After 14 years in business and a combined
tester able to drive array probes and array testing gauges and one of Cygnus’ most 75 years of NDT know-how, Danatronics has
floor scanners. The Helium has all the advanced gauges is the MK5 Cygnus 6+ PRO. emerged as a leading innovator of
power of our industry-standard OMNI-200 Developed with a primary focus on the NDT ultrasonic testing equipment. Our offerings
tester in a portable 5.44 kg (12 lb) package. industry and user, the Cygnus 6+ is not only include both video testing equipment and
EddyPen was created to bring true portability compact and easy to operate, but also ultrasonic inspection products. Our
to handheld test instruments. EddyPen is a provides an excellent array of key features ultrasonic corrosion thickness and precision
full-featured, dual-frequency eddy current test required by an NDT user. Integrating features gauges are all proudly made in the United
instrument that is linked wirelessly to an such as single-echo and echo-echo States, along with our new ECHO FD flaw
Android device. EddyPen is designed for measuring modes, A-scan and live B-scan detector. Danatronics is introducing our
surface eddy current applications and can run displays, comprehensive data logging, a newest addition to our ECHO series, the
all day on a single battery charge. The total measurement stability indicator, plus much ECHO FD flaw detector, making ECHO our
weight is 125 g, including the battery and the more into Cygnus’ MK5 range of ultrasonic most advanced system yet. With the ability
replaceable probe tip. EddyPen will be thickness gauges has expanded the usability to switch among corrosion, precision, and
available linked to a heads-up display in the of Cygnus gauges to a wider scope of flaw detection in one unit, the ECHO series
near future. This will allow eddy current industrial uses. All of Cygnus’ MK5 gauges is unmatched. What this means is you can
inspection with one hand free at all times for have been rigorously tested to military perform your corrosion thickness surveys,
additional safety and portability. Please visit specification: drops from height (onto precision thickness with 1 micron resolution,
eddypen.com for more details. concrete), extreme vibrations, and extremes and flaw detection all in one handheld unit.
of heat and cold will all be shrugged off by The ECHO series was designed for IP67 and
Creaform Inc. the unit, which is also completely offers a 8.9 cm (3.5 in.) high-resolution,
Levis, Quebec, Canada environmentally sealed to IPX7 (water) and sunlight-readable color display, easy one-
Booth 410 IPX6 (dust). As well as ultrasonic thickness hand operation, 13 to 27 hour battery life, up
Creaform offers the simplest and most gauges, Cygnus also offers an ABS and Type- to 32 GB of SD card memory, and interface
accurate NDT alternative to pit gauges. approved ultrasonic hatch cover and door export to Microsoft Excel. New features include
Pipecheck™ is without a doubt a game leak detector along with their newest grid view, supervisor lock, patent-pending
changer for pipeline safety integrity addition: an ultrasonic flooded member peak pitch memory, and the EZ Scan 6
assessment. You will save time and money detection system for use by divers and ROVs. magnetic wheel encoder. Visit us at Booth 203
by backfilling pipelines in the shortest time to see ECHO and our full line of products.
possible without compromising diagnostic
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heavy component NDT applications. And the
sensitivity of our market-leading IP67 Thor
detectors is setting new standards for weld
inspection applications. We also produce
Dantec Dynamics GmbH some of the fastest commercially available
Ulm, Germany X-ray inspection cameras which enable
Booth 844
DÜRR NDT GmbH & Co. KG
ultra-high speed imaging without
Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
Dantec Dynamics is a US-owned compromise on resolution. Being the
Booth 733
manufacturer of optical measurement largest manufacturer of cadmium telluride
DÜRR NDT provides computed radiography
equipment for material testing. Leading detectors in the world and providers of
scanners, flat panel detectors (digital
companies within aerospace, automotive, detectors for imaging systems that are used
detector arrays), and X-ray inspection
defense, marine, and wind have been across the globe by leading-edge
software for radiographic testing. Still the
relying on Dantec’s shearography systems organizations, we understand digital X-ray
only computed radiography manufacturer
for decades to address their most imaging technology and NDT applications.
worldwide with BAM-certified 30 μm basic
challenging NDT applications. Dantec’s new Come and talk to us—our brands, Ajat and
spatial resolution capability! DÜRR NDT also
FlawExplorer is a fast, noncontact, and full- XCounter, are well established, and our
offers X-ray film processors for mobile use
field laser shearography system that people are experts in their fields.
and the unique REACH compliant “green”
detects delaminations, disbonds, kissing
film processing chemistry. We are showing
bonds, wrinkling, impact damage, voids, Dolphitech our new DRC 2430 NDT wireless flat panel
crushed core, and other anomalies in Raufoss, Norway detector, which features an industry-leading
composite materials. It easily handles Booth 139 pixel pitch of 76 μm and a weight of just
complex surface geometries, producing Multimaterial inspections. Reliable. Flexible. 3.2 kg. This extremely ruggedized and
real-time results of areas up to 1.86 m2 Simple. Dolphitech provides a range of waterproof digital detector arrays has been
(20 ft2). The FlawExplorer sets a new advanced scientific instruments, training, specially developed for maximum portability
benchmark in terms of portability, and services for NDT within the aerospace, and the harsh conditions of field radiography.
sensitivity, and ease-of-use, which makes it automotive, and marine and energy sectors. Get more out of radiography with DÜRR NDT!
the perfect solution for in-field applications, Our objective is to provide reliable and Visit duerr-ndt.com to learn more.
as well as integration with robotic simple-to-use equipment to perform cost-
inspection systems. Visit us at Booth 844 to and time-efficient NDT inspections. Unlike
see the new FlawExplorer in action. traditional phased array ultrasound, the
Dolphicam has a unique 2D matrix
transducer design that delivers extremely
high-resolution images. Dolphitech is now
offering a new range of ultrasound
instruments with extended capabilities.
Based on its ultrasound and transducer
technology, Dolphitech will offer NDT
solutions with interchangeable transducers
for different materials and applications. The
new system, codenamed DolphiCam 2, will
include a selection of transducers over a
wide frequency range. Inquiries can be
directed to Sales Director Thomas Berg at
thomas@dolphitech.com. Echo Ultrasonics
Bellingham, Washington
Booth 538
Win an Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM
Direct Conversion Portable Bluetooth Speaker from the
Danderyd, Sweden couplant experts at Echo Ultrasonics. Visit
Booth 943 us at Booth 538 and discuss how Echo
Direct Conversion is a technology leader in Ultrasonics can improve your ultrasonic
digital X-ray detection technology. By testing (UT) performance, safety, efficiency,
implementing photon counting and direct and cost. Six of the many issues our
conversion technologies, we manufacture a couplants address: phased array drop out,
product range that includes detectors with side lobes, and wedge noise; auto-ignition
high-energy imaging capability (MeV) for and fire in ports and restricted spaces;

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UT of liquid ethylene lines and other SteelCheck is a compact three-channel flux
–128.89 °C (–200 °F) inspections. We leakage tube testing solution, ideal for
also offer pencil point probe sensitivity ferrous tubing, especially Fin Fan tubes. The
improvement with noise reduction; new PhaseCheck is a dual-frequency high-
longer-lasting, slower evaporating performance eddy current flaw detector
Eddyfi
high-temperature couplants for faster delivering C-scan capability that supports
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
inspections, less waste, and lower cost; and X/Y and R/theta manual scanners. Ether will
Booth 516
AUT fluids that are pumpable over 60.96 m exhibit its successful core range of industry-
Eddyfi Technologies maximizes the potential
(200 ft), do not leave an oil slick, and are proven products including the new
of multiple advanced NDT inspection
water soluble. Come and see us at Booth 538. generation ETherCheck, a combined eddy
technologies. It focuses on offering high-
current and bond-testing flaw detector,
performance NDT solutions for the inspection
Eclipse Scientific of critical components and assets through its
using pitch-catch; AeroCheck2, AeroCheck+,
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada WeldCheck2, and WeldCheck+, along with
complementary brands and product lines:
Booth 905 the SigmaCheck ECT conductivity meter.
Eddyfi, Silverwing, Teletest, TSC, and M2M.
Eclipse Scientific is known globally for Drop by and discover why our range of NDT
Eddyfi Technologies serves customers in more
providing innovative software and equipment is known for its ease of use,
than 80 countries in such major industries as
textbooks to our diverse customers and the flexible design, and operator-centric
power generation, oil and gas, aerospace, and
NDT industry. Specializing in phased array functionality. The PECT system from
manufacturing. The group employs more than
ultrasonic testing and eddy current testing, Maxwell NDT will also be featured on the
320 people and leverages nine centers of
our significant technical expertise is second stand, where you can find out more about
excellence and sales offices worldwide, all
to none for improving inspection reliability, why this PECT solution delivers reliability
staffed by NDT experts.
repeatability, and efficiency. We’re proud to and fast inspection results in the most
introduce the ninth generation of BeamTool, challenging of applications. We look forward
EMWorks to welcoming you to our booth.
the world’s most popular application for
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
fast, easy, open technique development for
Booth 407
NDT. Eclipse’s innovation is fueled by
EMWorks is a leading provider of
customer feedback, as proven with our new
electromagnetic design software for NDT
features: extensive FMC/TFM tools for
applications. EMWorks flagship products
complete technique development,
are EMS and HFWorks. Both products are
enhanced technique validation to help
based on the finite element method and
ensure quality inspections, advanced
fully embedded in Solidworks and AutoDesk
wedge designer and fabrication support,
Inventor. Whether your NDT application
improved simulation for advanced
uses eddy current testing, magnetic flux
techniques, improved calibration block
leakage testing, remote field testing, magnetic
designer, and much more. Aside from
particle inspection, pulsed eddy current, or
BeamTool 9, Eclipse provides an extensive
alternating current field measurement, you will
Extende
line of leading NDT software, including Norfolk, Virginia
find EMWorks products easy to use, accurate,
InspectionBank, a complete suite of NDT Booth 807
and powerful. In addition, EMS and HFWorks
inspection software tools enabling online Extende’s mission is to bring the benefits of
are both equipped with integrated thermal
inspection management and secure control simulation and NDT development
and structural solvers in a hassle-free true
of scan data from acquisition to analysis methodology to the NDT community. Our
multiphysics platform. EMS and HFWorks help
and reporting; STATUS 5, a reliability newest creation, TraiNDE UT, is the ultimate
you eliminate the guesswork and validate your
assessment tool for NDT inspection tool to efficiently train your inspectors for
NDT and NDE design fast without the need to
systems; and AcousticArray, a new data manual UT inspections. TraiNDE is a
build physical prototypes, hence reducing the
acquisition and imaging system developed complete and innovative system that
time to market.
by Eclipse Scientific that makes full use of provides an important choice of mockups
multielement transducers to generate high- and defects integrated into dedicated
resolution images. Contact us at (519) 372- exercises, including the ultrasonic testing
1831 or info@eclipsescientific.com today (UT) system interface. Additionally, Extende
for more information. is the official distributor of CIVA simulation
ETher NDE Ltd. software, which has modules simulating
St. Albans, United Kingdom ultrasound, radiographic testing (RT), eddy
Booth 933 current, guided wave, and computed
Ether NDE will be showcasing the new tomography. To further assist the NDT
additions to their eddy current range at this needs of aerospace, we offer improved
year’s Annual Conference. The new UT composite modeling capability with
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CIVA Fidel2D, a finite difference “add-on” Foerster Instruments Inc.
for composites. To better analyze UT Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
acquisition data, we offer CIVA Analysis, Booth 411
compatible with Eddyfi/M2M systems and Forester, a leading manufacturer and
Olympus systems. To help train the next supplier of NDT equipment, utilizes
generation of NDT professionals, we offer nondestructive electromagnetic and eddy
CIVA Education, an NDT simulation tool for current test principles. The products range
UT, eddy current, and RT specifically
GB Inspection Systems Ltd.
from simple handheld instruments to Cannock, United Kingdom
designed to help teach the physics of NDT. sophisticated integrated test systems Booth 753
We also provide our clients with technical for in-line testing. Instruments developed GB Inspection Systems (GBIS) Ltd. is a
support, adapted training, and a large for NDT in the metal manufacturing industry leading UK-based manufacturer of
choice of consulting studies from UT probe are used for crack detection, hardness ultrasonic probes and accessories and a
design to qualification dossiers or measurement, magnetic property supplier of NDT equipment, consumables,
inspection design. determination, electrical conductivity services, and calibration of equipment. GBIS
measurement, and heat treatment verification. was founded in 1984 and offers a wealth of
Forester’s DM Division manufactures products experience in providing an exceptional service
used in the detection of unexploded ordnance to our global clients operating within the NDT
and landmines. These products are used industry, with quality products at competitive
extensively by military and civilian contractors prices. GBIS has a global presence and a
for the difficult tasks of land remediation and
FlawTech Inc. quality reputation for successfully supplying
humanitarian demining throughout the world. and servicing customers in over 40 countries
Concord, North Carolina
Forester also specializes in the integration of worldwide, with future expansion planned
Booth 433
material handling systems with NDT into countries not currently serviced. Our
FlawTech Inc. has manufactured welded and
equipment to solve difficult product testing product range includes shear, compression,
nonweld flawed NDT specimens and
applications in the tube, wire, bar, and angle compression, TOFD, and high-
calibration standards for over 30 years.
component manufacturing markets. Our temperature probes. Throughout the world,
FlawTech is recognized globally as a
capabilities include engineering, design, industries such as power generation, gas,
specialist in the manufacturing of
manufacturing, installation, support, and oil, petroleum, automotive, mining, nuclear,
specimens containing “real flaws.”
service. Contact Forester with your application marine, military, railway, iron, steel,
Industries all over the world have chosen
and let us provide the solution. nonferrous, insurance, validation, and
FlawTech as the preferred manufacturer for
their NDT specimens to provide their NDT aerospace have all found benefits using GBIS
technicians the very best training, practice, products. We have an enviable reputation for
and qualification specimens. FlawTech offering quality products and services that are
manufactures specimens in most alloys and Fujifilm North America - NDT second to none. The team at GBIS is confident
for any NDT inspection method with more Materials and Equipment in delivering the right equipment, products,
than 30 different discontinuities to choose Valhalla, New York and services that best suit our clients’
from. FlawTech offers an extensive selection Booth 837 requirements. GBIS was one of the first NDT
of stock specimens designed for various This year, Fujifilm is pleased to introduce the companies in the United Kingdom to
training and code applications. FlawTech is next generation of robust and lightweight successfully achieve registration to BS5750,
renowned in the area of custom specimen wireless portable panels designed for most ISO 9002, ISO 9001:2008, and now
design and research and development for field radiographic testing (RT) applications. The ISO 9001:2015 for a quality system
unique alloys, geometries, and NDT new 100 micron Dynamix FXR Pads will offer underlining our commitment to quality. Our
inspection techniques. Regardless of your both a 25.4 cm (10 in.) 30.48 cm (12 in.) products are manufactured from the best
industry’s certification requirements, and 35.56 cm (14 in.) 43.18 cm (17 in.) materials available and meticulous attention
specimen complexities, or delivery active area and complement the current FXR to detail in production, which, together with
requirements, contact FlawTech when high-energy panel previously introduced for the exacting quality controls, gives you a
quality is critical. Come by our booth or visit high-volume productivity. Along with the reliable product that will give high
our website at flawtech.com. Fujifilm Dynamix HR2 CR system, the “VU” performance throughout its long life.
software will provides one common platform
Fleet Nav Systems to be used with both Fujifilm DDA and CR
Holland, Michigan modalities. In addition to the innovative line of
Booth 754 imaging systems, networking, and archival
solutions, Fujifilm also offers a complete line
of imaging plates, industrial X-ray film,
conventional processing equipment, and
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GE Measurement and Sensing GOM GmbH Our products represent the most advanced
Skaneateles, NY Braunschweig, Germany guided wave testing (GWT) equipment,
Booth 339 Booth 953 allowing our clients to assess pipes, rails,
GE Inspection Technologies (IT), a business GOM develops, produces, and distributes and other structures from a single remote
of Baker Hughes, a GE company, is one of software, machines, and systems for industrial and easily accessible location, without
the world’s leading suppliers of NDT and automated 3D coordinate measuring taking them out of service. The Wavemaker®
technologies and services. We offer the technology and 3D testing based on the latest system is the most reliable long-range
broadest spectrum of products across all research results and innovative technologies. screening equipment in the market. The
modalities, including ultrasonic, eddy With more than 60 sites and an employee G4mini is the latest instrument model, a lighter
current, remote visual inspection, X-ray network of more than 1000 metrology device with extended capacity and increased
fluorescence, digital/conventional specialists, GOM guarantees professional advice efficiency. The new lightweight low-profile
radiography, computed tomography, and as well as support and service to operators Compact® rings, with the practical multiple
positive material identification. Today, onsite in their local languages. In addition, spacing EC-Trio modules, are ideal to further
hundreds of brands in the automotive, GOM shares knowledge on processes and increase precision and productivity. gPIMS®
aerospace, consumer electronics, energy, measurement technology in training courses, was the first and remains the leading edge
e-mobility, and industrial 3D printing conferences, and application-based workshops. technology in guided wave monitoring, giving
industries trust IT’s technologies to make GOM has been developing measuring our clients a cost efficient option to
their production processes easier and more technology in Braunschweig (Germany) since continuously evaluate their pipelines. The
efficient. Headquartered in Germany with 1990. In the respective research and latest generation of these permanently
offices globally, IT has more than 1500 development departments, more than installed rings incorporates multipoint wall
dedicated professionals worldwide. Follow 100 engineers, mathematicians, and scientists thickness measurement capabilities for the
GE Inspection Technologies on LinkedIn for shape the measuring technology of the present pipe circumference area beneath the sensor.
NDT application reports and product and the future. Today, more than 14 000 system The recently released QSR1® is the first
updates: linkedin.com/company/ installations improve product quality and quantitative short-range guided wave
ge-inspection-technologies, or visit our accelerate product development and scanning system. Designed to automatically
website: geinspectiontechnologies.com. manufacturing processes for international measure wall loss of depths up to half the pipe
companies in the automotive, aerospace, and wall thickness, this instrument allows users to
Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. consumer goods industries and their suppliers actually quantify corrosion under pipe
Nashua, New Hampshire as well as many research institutes and supports (CUPS) before making integrity
Booth 941 universities. decisions. All users of our equipment are
Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. (GSSI) is a certified following GUL’s globally respected
world leader in the development, manufacture, Guangzhou Doppler Electronic training and qualification scheme. This
and sale of ground penetrating radar (GPR) Technologies Co. Ltd. scheme is methodically administered and
equipment, primarily for the concrete Guangzhou, China tightly regulated to ensure GUL qualified
inspection, utility mapping and locating, road Booth 441 inspectors are able to provide high-quality,
and bridge deck evaluation, geophysics, and Doppler is a leading manufacturer that supplies accurate results. Our services also include
archaeology markets. Our equipment is used NDT ultrasonic testing (UT) products with consultancy and onsite support by the world’s
all over the world to explore the subsurface of advanced technologies. Our products cover leading GWT experts, helping our clients to
the earth and to inspect infrastructure systems conventional UT transducers, PAUT transducers, make GWT an efficient solution for their
nondestructively. GSSI created the first PAUT instruments, scanners, and accessories. inspection projects.
commercial GPR system over 45 years ago and We are able to provide a cutting-edge level of
continues to provide the widest range and high-performance transducers (including linear Guided Wave Analysis LLC
highest quality GPR equipment available today. array, laterally focused array, 2D array, concave, San Antonio, Texas
and annular sectorial to name a few). Doppler Booth 416
Golden Engineering Inc. products are designed to offer brilliant qualities Guided Wave Analysis LLC (GWA) provides
Centerville, Indiana to the NDT society with high productivity and solutions for guided wave testing (GW) or
Booth 749 quality by our professional expert teams. long-range ultrasonic testing (LRUT) of
Golden Engineering manufactures battery- pipelines, pressure vessels, and tank walls.
powered pulsed X-ray generators. We have GWA sells and rents MsS GW systems to
four compact models that weigh less than inspection service companies and facilities,
9.07 kg (20 lbs) and range in output from continuously supports clients with training
150 kVp up to 370 kVp. Advantages of our and consulting, and leads the GW market
Guided Ultrasonics Ltd. through developing probes, software, and
pulsed X-ray generators include safety,
Brentford, United Kingdom procedures. The MsS GW system has the
convenience, compact size, and minimal
Booth 732 following merits: (1) multiple center-
weight. Come see our newly redesigned
Guided Ultrasonics Ltd. (GUL) is a global frequency operations of 16, 32, 45, 64, 90,
XRS3 and XRS4 generators.
leader in guided wave technology.
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128, 180, and 250 kHz; (2) MsS sector high magnification. They feature a unified design and manufacture of advanced
probe for inspecting pipelines, pressure design that combines the high voltage ultrasonic phased array inspection systems.
vessels, and tank walls; (3) sectional power supply and the X-ray head into one Their mission is to introduce phased array
focusing probes for inspecting pipe support, unit, which makes them easier to handle, to the mass market in NDT by making it
soil-air-interface, and high sensitivity set up, and maintain. Our X-ray detectors easier to use and offering more affordable
inspections of big diameter pipeline; (4) three include single-energy and dual-energy line advanced equipment.
different coupling techniques of dry coupling, scan cameras that conveniently fit under a
shear couplant, and epoxy bonding depending conveyor. We also offer TDI line scan cameras,
on pipe surface roughness and temperature X-ray CCD cameras, and flat panel sensors.
from –184 °C to 500 °C; (5) high spatial
resolution with high-frequency, one-cycle
operation; and (6) short dead zone and no
near-field length that is best for road crossing
and corrosion under insulation (CUI) Hocker Inc.
application. Please visit Booth 416 to see a Houston, Texas
demonstration of GWT in pipe and plate. For Both 909
more information, visit us at gwanalysis.com Hocker Inc. was founded in 1973 by Austin
or call us at (210) 842-7635.
Hellier Hocker. Hocker started his company with
Houston, Texas
the purpose of putting customer service
Booth 638
Gulmay Hellier is an industry leader in NDT training
first, and this standard continues after
Suwanee, Georgia 45 years in business. Hocker Inc. is a
and consulting services with over 30 years
Booth 637 manufacturer’s representative for the
of experience. Our staff of NDT
Gulmay provides high-voltage power following: Agfa, Dakota Ultrasonics, Echo
professionals stand ready to address your
supplies and X-ray generating systems to a Ultrasonics, Fujifilm, Gould-Bass Co., Labino
NDT needs with training centers located in
variety of industries including aerospace, AB, Proceq, Sonatest, TRI, and Warren
New London, Connecticut; Houston, Texas;
automotive, irradiation, security, and Associates, for the disciplines FPI, MPI, UT,
Anaheim, California; and Lima, Peru.
research. Our reputation for reliability and RT, HT, and VT. And we serve many
Hellier’s trainers and consultants each have
innovation is based on more than 35 years industries, including aerospace, petro-
over 15 years of experience in various
of experience delivering the widest range of chemical, testing labs, rotating equipment,
nondestructive fields with API, CWI, PCN,
standard products available to meet the drilling, tubing, and casing. Our factory-
CGSB, ASNT, and ACCP certifications. Our
needs of system integrators and trained service personnel are ready for your
staff of over 30 full-time and associate
manufacturers throughout the world. A installation on magnetic particle equipment
Level III instructors and consultants teach at
customer-focused design strategy further and automatic film processors, and when
all levels. Their advanced expertise can help
enables us to deliver cost-effective tailored the time comes, making the repairs. We
you solve virtually any inspection
solutions to diverse and demanding also provide service support on flaw
requirement like nowhere else in America.
customer applications. Engineering detectors, LED blacklights, and hardness
As a global provider of NDT and API
excellence, and world-class support. testing equipment, and we provide our
training, Hellier operates under three
customers with certification and calibration
brands: Hellier NDT, Codewest API, and
services on all the equipment we sell.
Worldspec. Our course types are designed
Hocker Inc. is ISO 9001-2008 registered,
to fit any schedule with online training with
and soon to be ISO 17025:2017; has an
in-class, online, and blended courses in
answering service for after-hour
Hamamatsu Corp. English or Spanish. Hellier facilities are
emergencies; and accepts MasterCard, Visa,
Bridgewater, New Jersey authorized exam centers for ASNT and
and American Express. Visit hockerinc.com
Booth 308 provide NAS courses; in addition, Hellier
or email hi.info@hockerinc.com.
Hamamatsu Corp. is the North American offers customized courses and NADCAP
subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. consulting/audit preparation, at your
location. To schedule your next class, visit
I&T Nardoni Institute SRL
(Japan), a leading manufacturer of devices Brescia, Italy
for the generation and measurement of our website hellierndt.com or call (888)
Booth 926
infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light, as 282-3887 for more information.
In 1988 in Brescia, Giuseppe Nardoni and
well as X-rays. These devices include his sons, Pietro and Diego, founded I&T
microfocus X-ray sources (MFX) and various Hi-Spec Systems Ltd. Nardoni Institute, one of the leading
X-ray detectors for nondestructive testing. Nantwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom
companies in advanced NDT. Its intangible
We offer sealed and open types of X-ray Booth 1033
value and asset is based on more than
sources in a range of tube voltages. Our Hi-Spec Systems is an innovative NDT
50 years of experience in NDT
MFX products provide sharp images even at technology company that specializes in the
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the company has developed advanced term with its customers and partners. and cold environments, and do not require
computerized techniques to comply with Imasonic is ISO 9001 (2008) certified. Eighty contact to perform inspections. Our DCUT
the requests of ASME codes. Time of flight percent of the total turnover is exported to all solutions offer powerful, accurate, and
diffraction, C/B-scan, and phased array five continents. Approximately 67% of the total flexible inspection techniques that use
have been extensively used since 1997 on turnover is dedicated to safety and quality piezoelectric sensors without liquid
pressure vessel, heat exchangers, forgings, applications, mainly for NDT and industrial coupling. Our DCUT, EMAT, and eddy current
plates, and piping. In addition, radiography measurement. Customers for NDT transducers technologies are versatile and can be
(film and digital), eddy current, acoustic and probes are end users, service companies, integrated into any factory environment. For
emission, dye penetrant, magnetic particle, equipment manufacturers, and laboratories. in-service inspections, all of our EMAT and
thermography, stress measurements, leak , The main applications for NDT are power DCUT sensors and accessories can be
and visual testing have been developed to generation, aeronautics, automotive, railways, powered by Innerspec’s line of high-
comply with the most stringent standards petrochemicals, and metallurgy. Located in powered portable instruments. Innerspec
(ASME, ASTM, EN). Special techniques have the east of France, close to Switzerland, in a Technologies is headquartered in Forest,
been developed for concrete and composite region famous for its microtechnologies and Virginia, with offices in Europe and Asia.
materials inspection. All personnel are watch industry, Imasonic is founded on the Visit us at innerspec.com or email us at
qualified and certified according to skills of its team of 100 employees. sales@innerspec.com for more information.
EN ISO 9712 and SNT-TC–1A at Level II and
III; to maintain their competences, the
company has set up a campus called
International NDT Campus Albert Einstein,
equipped with the instrumentation and
test blocks necessary for training in all
methods. The campus is approved by
the Italian certification board to qualify
INETEC - Institute for Nuclear Inspection Plug Strategies LLC
people according to ISO EN 9712 and
Technology Houston, Texas
Zagreb, Croatia Booth 737
NAS 410 – EN 4179 for aerospace. I&T
Booth 437 Inspection Plug Strategies LLC,
Nardoni is certified ISO 9001 and recently
For almost 30 years INETEC has been a headquartered in Houston, Texas,
has been certified by ACCREDIA, the
name synonymous with technological and manufactures the most technologically
reference certification board of the
service excellence in the nuclear industry. superior inspection ports available. They
European Union commission. Research
We have gained international acclaim for are available in diameters of 3.8, 5.1, 6.4,
is a part of the company’s strategy to
developing technologies for nuclear power 7.6, 8.9, and 12.7 cm (1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0,
develop new techniques, new probes, new
plant inspection, and repair, as well as 3.5, and 5.0 in.) and three styles. When
instrumentation, and new scanners. The
various engineering studies that we conduct testing for corrosion under insulation in
company has been a partner in many
in our regular scope of activities. In doing refineries, chemical plants, paper mills, and
European research projects; to date,
so, we are active in permanent programs of power facilities, our successful System II
54 research papers have been presented
research, development, design, construction, (ethylene propylene diene monomer) and V
in national and international conferences.
and fabrication of equipment, tools, plugs, and (silicone) inspection ports offer advantages
probes, including software and instruments for over previous designs with their self-sealing
Imasonic nondestructive examination. We offer a range of properties that eliminate the need for
Voray Sur Lognon, France
products and services meeting the highest screws or sealants. The TML inspection
Booth 646
standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, port, a one-piece, all-rubber design, is now
Imasonic is an independent, privately owned
OHIOSAS 18001, and ISO/IEC 17025. more advanced with improvements to the
company that develops and produces
self-sealing mechanism, and an added
ultrasonic transducers for high socioeconomic
added-value applications. Imasonic’s vocation
Innerspec Technologies Inc. outer skirt provides even more water
Forest, Virginia resistance. Our TMLX inspection ports are
can be summed up as follows: to act for the
Booth 333 designed to fit 10 mm (0.4 in.) thick aerogel
benefit of humanity and its environment, in
Innerspec Technologies is a world insulation as well as all other thicker
particular in the interests of health, safety, and
leader in the design, manufacture, and insulations. Additionally, TML and TMLX can
quality; to advance the profession of designer
commercialization of high-performance NDT be screwed down to odd-shaped, uneven
and manufacturer of ultrasound transducers;
solutions. Our state-of-the-art technologies applications. We also manufacture a variety
and to do this creatively, innovatively, and
include electromagnetic acoustic transducers of stickers and labels to identify TMLs on
productively to increase recognition of the
(EMATs), dry-coupled ultrasonic testing bare pipes and vessels. View all our
company and its leading position through the
(DCUT) transducers, and eddy current products at inspectionplugstrategies.com.
quality of its relationships with customers and
testing. Our EMAT and eddy current Our service is impeccable with all product
partners. Imasonic’s vocation can also be seen
solutions can inspect at high speeds, in hot sizes stocked for same-day shipping.
in its willingness to collaborate over the long
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repositioned, to meet asset needs, and to
be used with any data collection system or
scenario, whether it be manual inspection,
hybrid, or autonomous remote integration.
Inuktun Services Ltd. Iris Inspection Services Inc.

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Baytown, Texas
Booth 423 Booth 347
From pipe, oil and gas, hydroelectric, Iris Inspection Services was the first
nuclear, and marine inspection, to military, company to specialize solely in tube
security, and search-and-rescue inspection; this allows us to provide
applications, Inuktun Services Ltd. is an inspectors with much greater experience
innovation leader in modular robotics IPSI specific to this specialty. We offer IRIS (UT),
systems with a global reputation for Courbevoie, France eddy current, remote field, magnetic flux
reliability, efficiency, quality, and cost- Booth 648 leakage, near-field testing, and remote
effectiveness. Built on the principles of IPSI has been a manufacturer of pipeline visual inspection services. We also
modular design, Inuktun’s compact and crawlers since 1984. Our crawlers are specialize in T/A exchanger coordination
highly versatile systems allow customers to designed in France by professionals who with our cloud-based management
select from a range of standard cameras, have a long history of experience in software. Iris designed and manufactures
crawlers, and controllers to create their own pipeline and NDT service. We offer the Iris 6 the IRIS 9000 system, which established
off-the-shelf, yet customized solutions. crawler from 15.24 to 45.72 cm (6 to 18 in.) and provides the greatest accuracy and
These systems can then be reconfigured or with Teledyne ICM generator CP160CR, and durability in the industry. We recently
re-equipped for alternative operating the Iris 10 crawler from 30.48 to 152.4 cm released our new IRIS 9000 Plus system
conditions or inspection tasks. Inuktun also (12 to 60 in.) with Teledyne ICM generators with the same accuracy and durability, but
offers clients a complete range of services, from 200 to 300kV. IPSI was the first firm to with increased inspection speed. We can
from conceptual design through to project design and manufacture “pipeline crawlers” provide the right service for your application.
completion. We provide components to with the concept of interchangeability and Our tube mapping software enables B-scan
customers for use in their own applications. modularity, allowing the use of gamma-ray and C-scan imaging and onsite final
Known as an industry problem solver, projectors and X-ray generators with the reporting. IRIS has been the tube inspection
Inuktun provides you with an expedient same chassis. Our crawlers are in operation leader for 33 years and counting. You can rely
solution for your best-defined obstacle. in many countries across the world, in hard on us to help you choose the best method for
worksite conditions like desert, mountains, your inspection needs.
or offshore environments. IPSI also supplies
a complete range of NDT equipment and ISOFLEX Radioactive LLC
consumables. IPSI is ISO 9001 quality Saint Rose, Louisiana
management certified. Come by Booth 648. Booth 1029
Our crawlers will be on view. ISOFLEX Radioactive LLC (ISO-RAD™)
specializes in serving the needs of the NDT
iRay Technology Shanghai Ltd. industry by providing an extensive line of
Shanghai, China high-quality equipment, sources, accessories,
Ionix Advanced Technologies and services. Please visit us at Booth 1029!
Booth 1020
Huddersfield, United Kingdom
iRAY Technology Co. Ltd., founded in 2010,
Booth 310
Ionix Advanced Technologies specializes in
is committed to developing, manufacturing, Japanese Society for NDI
and supplying innovative X-ray flat panel Tokyo, Japan
the production of ultrasonic transducers
detector (FPD) and DR solutions to Booth 854
designed from the ground up to operate
customers around the world. With corporate The Japanese Society for Nondestructive
continuously in extreme environments.
headquarters located in the Jinqiao high- Inspection (JSNDI) has a variety of technical
Powered by Ionix’s novel and proprietary
tech zone, Shanghai, China, and production committees supporting academic
piezoelectric technology, HotSense®
plants in Shanghai, Zhangjiang, and investigation and research on NDT.
transducers offer reliable, stable, and cost-
Taicang, iRAY, dedicated to the continuous Technical papers and reviews appear in the
effective ultrasonic measurements at
improvement of imaging technology, has Journal of JSNDI, the society’s official
temperatures from –40 °C up to 380 °C and
quickly become the leading FPD monthly publication. The Research and
in the presence of ionizing radiation. Our
manufacturer and supplier in China and will Technical Development Center was
HotSense® transducers enable online
provide the highest quality products to our established for the purpose of
installation without welding or shutdown,
global customers. strengthening academic investigation and
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research functions, and as an academic information. Our products are focused on In 2018, JIREH opened a second sales office
database. An education center was helping companies to manage their NDT in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
established in Tokyo to disseminate data, a resource that is often poorly utilized
information on NDT technology, and training and undervalued. The scalable solutions JMD NDT Inc.
courses for NDT engineers are offered in can help with anything from indexing and Dallas, Texas
Tokyo and Osaka. Special courses for searching NDT files based on meta-data to Booth 736
employees of nuclear power plants are also supplying NDT information to refine JMD NDT Inc. offers reliable products and
held in Japan and overseas. manufacturing processes. By using cutting- accessories for NDT. Present offerings
edge techniques for data storage and include ultrasonic flaw detectors, thickness
JENTEK Sensors Inc. utilizing the latest artificial intelligence and gauges, and general purpose probes,
Marlborough, Massachusetts machine learning developments, JetSoft cables, and calibration blocks. Radiography
Booth 335 allows companies to squeeze the most out accessories include LED film illuminators,
This year JENTEK is expanding its jET of their test data. NDT information contains pentameters/image quality indicators, lead
handheld (eddy current array tester) valuable quality data that not only indicates screens, warning lights and tapes, hanger
product line to include several more the state of a single product, but can and processing tanks, flexible and rigid
applications. These include additional indicate the health of the manufacturing cassettes, collimators, and lead numbers
capability for engine inspection, landing environment as a whole. JetSoft helps and letters. Magnetic particle/liquid
gear inspections through coatings, additive companies to pinpoint how changes in penetrant accessories include LED UV
manufactured metal parts inspection, manufacturing processes can impact lamps, magnetic yokes, Ketos rings, pie
improved composite impact damage productivity. Key product features are gauges, Tam panels, and Castrol strips. Our
detection, crack mapping and depth central storage location for all NDT data, objective is to offer quality products and
measurement, and metallic coating from multiple OEMs across multiple accessories at the right price, and we are
thickness and quality measurement. The jET techniques; DICONDE compliance; unique seeking worldwide channel partners.
is a 7-channel fully parallel handheld eddy SQL database solutions, enabling improved
current system (that weighs less than 1 lb!). accessibility and the ability to query meta-
Future modules will include support for data; innovative business intelligence for
conventional ET as well. Next year the jET trend analysis and SPC, generating an
product line will also add a very low improved view of the manufacturing
frequency (MR-array) module for corrosion environment; intranet-based interface for
imaging through insulation for steel pipes. zero-install and collaborative working for all
Note that all of the above applications are stakeholders; data capture for manual
currently supported by the JENTEK 8200 inspection processes; and automatic report
GridStation 19 channel and 39 channel generation. Kinetic Solutions LLC
fully parallel systems. These systems, along Fort Ripley, Minnesota
with the performance leading MWM and Booth 540
MWM-array technology, are now available Kinetic Solutions is proud to be both
at a very competitive cost. JENTEK’s unique ISO 9000/9001 certified and an ASNT
model-based multivariate inverse methods Corporate Partner. Our host of industry-
implemented in the JENTEK GridStation specific services include ASNT NDT and
software empower the user to solve JIREH Industries NAS-410 Level III third-party consulting and
challenging eddy current testing problems Ardrossan, Alberta, Canada certifying; American Petroleum Institute
that confound conventional methods while Booth 611 inspection and inspector training; American
also reducing false indication rates for more JIREH Industries designs and manufactures Welding Society certified welding inspection
common applications and also reducing manual and automated scanners to assist (CWI) and CWI training; NDT personnel
surface preparation requirements. Come to with NDT in the oil and gas, power training and NDT program development;
our booth and see how together we can generation, and aerospace industries. The mechanical integrity program (MIP)
address your most challenging NDT company was established in 1981 as a development; ISO 9000/9001 certification;
problems and improve performance on your manufacturer of custom automated and company, specification, and site-
everyday applications. equipment. JIREH has since expanded to a specific training. Kinetic Solutions is laser
facility just east of Edmonton, Alberta, focused on providing high-quality service
JetSoft Ltd. Canada, and has developed a and customer satisfaction. Our first priority
Leeds, United Kingdom comprehensive product line featuring is to exceed client expectations. We have
Booth 135 scanners used for the inspection of pipes, the experience and credentials to assure
JetSoft Ltd. has specialists in NDT and tanks, vessels, boiler tubes, and more. In compliance in all areas of industrial
software and is dedicated to improving the 2014, JIREH opened the doors to its first fabrication and asset management. Visit our
accessibility and efficiency of NDT dedicated sales office in Houston, Texas. website at kinetic-solutions-llc.com.
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Testing lights (MB Series and GX Series), wireless penetrant testing. These courses are run
Gangnam gu, Seoul, South Korea UV meters (Apollo 1.0), and more. Labino from our training center located at the
Booth 208 products are sold in over 50 countries. In University Business Park in Houston, Texas;
The 20th World Conference on Non- the United States, Labino maintains eight at our offices in the United Kingdom; or at
Destructive Testing (20th WCNDT 2020) will distributors, four service centers for local on-site company locations. Our team also
be hosted by the Korean Society for support, and two calibration centers. Visit performs research and development and
Nondestructive Testing (KSNT) and held in our website at labino.com or email us at develops bespoke inspections, novel
Coex, Seoul, Korea, on 8–12 June 2020 labino@labino.com. inspection techniques, and hybrid solutions
under the auspices of the International to solve complex inspections on challenging
Committee for Non-Destructive Testing materials, joint geometries, and critical
(ICNDT). WCNDT 2020 will provide a material degradation. We also offer expert
dynamic technical program that will be witness services, independent technical
highly informative for every participant. The reports, and failure analysis services.
conference will provide a forum for the Please visit our website for more
interchange of knowledge and the information at lavender-ndt.com.
opportunity to integrate with professional Laser Technology Inc.
NDT colleagues from all around the world. Norristown, Pennsylvania Lickenbrock Technologies Inc.
The 20th WCNDT will turn out to be one of Booth 817 Saint Louis, Missouri
the most successful platforms for Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) is a premier Booth 409
networking and inspiring new technical manufacturer of digital shearography and Lickenbrock Technologies is a research and
ideas. Our host city, Seoul, is the capital of holography NDT systems and instruments. development company that develops
South Korea as well as the nation’s Since 1982, LTI has provided high-speed imaging and visualization software for NDT.
symbolic icon, offering an opportunity for laser-based NDT systems, services, and Areas of expertise include high-performance
visitors to experience a mixed atmosphere engineering to the aerospace, computing, computed tomography, and
of ancient Asian culture and world-class city transportation, and marine industries. Laser computed radiography. The company has
life. Colleagues in NDT technology will testing methods (LM) are highly effective for introduced Altux CR, a new software
warmly be welcomed to the WCNDT 2020 in composites, sandwich panels, composite designed for NDT, which processes and
Seoul, Korea, 8–12 June 2020. overwrapped pressure vessels, metal- analyzes computed radiography (CR)
bonded structures, rocket engines, and images. This new product is very effective
thermal protection systems. LTI also offers for CR plate grain pattern removal and CR
SPONSOR
LM training courses to SNT-TC-1A and frame averaging as well as automated basic
NAS-410 for Levels II and III. spatial resolution measurements including
intensity profiling and statistics. It further
provides improved contrast-to-noise,
computer-assisted reading of image quality
indicators, and higher contrast-to-noise for
Labino AB – PLATINUM SPONSOR 2T-hole visibility. Lickenbrock Technologies
Stockholm, Sweden has also released Altux CT, a new software
Booths 342, 717, and 939 designed to reconstruct computed
Labino AB is a global leader in high-quality tomography (CT) images. Altux CT
UV inspection lights and measurement Lavender International NDT USA LLC incorporates nonlinear operations and is
instruments. Labino has a wide portfolio Houston, Texas iterative, resulting in notable improvements
of UV lights tested to comply with ASTM Booth 832 in image quality. It is based on a proprietary
E-3022-15, Rolls-Royce RRES 90061, and Lavender International NDT is a leading algorithm called fast expectation
Airbus AITM6-1001. At our R&D facility in provider of NFT training, examinations, and maximization ordered subsets (FEMOS),
Stockholm, we process all market feedback Level 3 consultancy services to clients which was initially designed for NDT of
and thoroughly investigate the specific across the world. We are accredited by aerospace system parts. This software uses
needs of every user group and design major NDT organizations to provide training iterative image reconstruction to correct
unique products that address them. That and examination suitable for internationally beam hardening and remove scatter effects
is why browsing through our website recognized central and employer-based from CT images. There are other built-in
(labino.com) you will find products that are certification schemes. We run various functionalities as well. For more
original and cannot be found elsewhere. We Level 1, 2, and 3 courses on topics such as information, call (314) 376-5298, contact
are proud to be a source of inspiration for manual UT plate and pipe welds, time of sales@lickenbrock.com, or visit
the industry with our first-to-market flight diffraction, phased array, high- lickenbrock.com.
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Logos Imaging LLC MarShield
Loveland, Colorado Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Booth 836 Booth 226
Logos Imaging is a US-based manufacturer MarShield manufactures custom-designed
of innovative, cost-effective portable X-ray radiation shielded stationary and modular
systems designed for NDT applications. Magnaflux rooms. These full-body-shielding units are
Built to endure rigorous field conditions, Glenview, Illinois designed to shield personnel from harmful
our direct radiography systems provide a Booth 417 secondary radiation in medical, industrial,
complete solution for acquiring and Magnaflux is a global leader in NDT and nuclear. We specialize in NDT modular
analyzing X-ray images whether in the solutions, and partners with manufacturers, rooms complete with sliding shielded doors
comfort of a lab or out in the most NDT test labs, and field inspectors to make and lead glass viewing windows. Every
demanding environments. We produce the world a safer place through NDT. Our room is custom designed then
three flat panel detector (FPD) systems for customers trust us to help them ensure the manufactured, and size is never an issue. In
the industrial market, assuring the best very best quality control for their most addition, we manufacture custom-designed
imaging solution for your application. When critical components with products and modular and stationary walls and barriers
paired with our proprietary Logos Imaging equipment for penetrant testing and mag for existing rooms. MarShield is a North
Application (LIA) NDT, a DICONDE (digital particle inspection, along with NDT UV light American manufacturer and global supplier
imaging and communication in NDE) and lamps, couplants for ultrasonic testing, of radiation shielding solutions. Our lead
compliant image acquisition, review, and and other NDT products. Our shielding curtains and custom track
data management system, you will be uncompromising stance on safety and systems are ideal when stationary walls and
confident in the results. LIA NDT delivers performance is what sets us apart, and why shielding units are unacceptable. Our in-
integration for computed radiography and a generations of NDT professionals continue house design team can provide any solution
suite of advanced image analysis and to rely on us. Contact us at (847) 657-5300 for any shielding challenge you may have.
enhancement tools. The latest LIA NDT or magnaflux.com/Contact-Us to learn how From concept, design, to finished product
version supports Boeing BSS7044 Rev. C Magnaflux can help you. delivered, we provide it all. Visit
Standard along with other international marshield.com or call (800) 381-5335.
standards. With multiple scintillator Marietta Nondestructive Testing
options, Logos Imaging delivers an imaging Inc. Massachusetts Materials
system that best fits your industrial Marietta, Georgia Technologies
requirements. Our multiplatform software Booth 945 Waltham, Massachusetts
and hardware interface allows seamless Marietta Nondestructive Testing specializes Booth 229
integration of a wide variety of portable in the design, manufacture, installation, Massachusetts Materials Technologies
X-ray imaging devices on a single PC. To and servicing of both custom and standard (MMT) was founded in 2014 based on
learn more about the Logos Imaging NDT NDT systems for a variety of industries innovative concepts initiated though
solutions, stop by Booth 836 or contact including aerospace, energy, automotive, graduate research at MIT by our CEO Simon
us at (765) 939-4044 or online at defense, and petroleum. Our systems meet Bellemare and CTO Steve Palkovic. Their
logosimaging.com. Rugged, reliable, the unique and demanding requirements of research created the opportunity to
portable X-ray solutions for NDT users highly technical applications utilizing X-ray, transform the way material properties are
worldwide! ultrasonic, and eddy current technology. measured by implementing a contact
Marietta NDT is an expert in the design and mechanics method known as frictional
Lucid Software Ltd. production of real-time X-ray systems, sliding in portable, accurate, and reliable
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India cabinets, and vaults, as well as other testing instruments. With these
Booth 241 specialized testing machines. Ultrasonic instruments, MMT delivers practical
Lucid Software offers a wide of range of systems are capable of inspecting complex nondestructive solutions for the mechanical
software solutions for both traditional NDT shapes of varying sizes offering a range of evaluation of metallic materials. With the
applications and the emerging area of NDT options, including large-scale gantry hardness, strength, and ductility (HSD)
data integration with Enterprise Software scanners with multiple axes of motion and tester, MMT can accurately and reliably
platforms. Our product portfolio includes immersion tanks in a wide range of sizes. measure mechanical strength properties
Kovid RT for X-ray analysis, Kovid UT for With 8800 m2 (95 000 ft2) of design and and mechanical variations throughout
ultrasound imaging and analysis, and Kovid manufacturing space, our in-house team of samples without the need for destructive
CT for 3D reconstruction of digital X-ray. talented mechanical, electrical, and testing. MMT’s second technology, the
Lucid has jointly developed the Kovid iMaV software engineers, designers, fabricators, nondestructive toughness tester (NDTT), is a
(intelligent modeling and visualization) tool and machinists is available to assist you nondestructive tool able to replicate the
with Areva to support in service inspection with any of your inspection needs. crack-tip-opening-displacement (CTOD) used
of parts with complex geometries, in traditional lab testing to accurately
especially in nuclear power plants. measure an index of fracture toughness.
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SPONSOR structure, determines crack nucleation and
propagation properties allowing inspectors
for the first time to immediately categorize
the severity of critical areas and detected
cracks during initial structure screening.
Matec Instrument Companies Inc. Met-L-Chek Co.– PLATINUM Prioritizing fatigue locations for further
Northborough, Massachusetts SPONSOR monitoring and retrofit decisions allows
Booth 313 Santa Monica, California engineers and asset managers/owners to
Matec Instrument Companies Inc. is an Booth 818 make more informed decisions based on
industry leader in providing superior Met-L-Chek Co. has been a pioneer in the real status of structures. For more
nondestructive ultrasonic testing penetrant inspection since 1952. That’s information, visit metal-fatigue-solutions.com.
solutions. Matec has been providing 66 years of quality, service, and expertise
ultrasonic C-scan systems to institutional providing our customers with maximum
and industrial users since 1968. Our value. Met-L-Chek manufactures a full line of
products include computer-controlled AMS-2644 QPL approved penetrants that
ultrasonic scanning gantries and meet or exceed aerospace and nuclear
immersion tanks; in-house designed specification requirements. Met-L-Chek is
instruments, including a full line of board- ISO-9001-15 certified. In addition, our popular
level ultrasonic pulser/receivers and Pen-Chek® testing program provides the
newer analog-to-digital boards designed laboratory analyses required by ASTM E-1417 MFE Enterprises/MFE Rentals
for high sampling rates at very high regardless of what brand of penetrants are Dripping Springs, Texas
repetition rates; and Windows-based involved. Met-L-Chek is also known for its Booth 338
control and data acquisition software for newsletter titled “The Penetrant Professor,”
conventional and phased array ultrasonic which is distributed via email to anyone who Mirion Technologies
applications. Matec provides a full range has an interest in penetrant testing, NDT Irvine, California
of in-house services, including affairs in general, news about specifications, Booth 404
mechanical, electrical, and electronic upcoming meetings of interest, and so on. Mirion Technologies Dosimetry Services offers
design; manufacturing, fabrication, and The subjects in this newsletter are largely personal radiation-detection dosimetry
installation; instrumentation; and software driven by the readers and frequently address reporting services for a wide range of
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customer support services to ensure QPL-approved penetrants, Met-L-Chek also radiation-monitoring management and
proper system alignment and calibration, supplies magnetic particles, UVA lights, administration, reduces costs, and provides
and to deliver optimum performance and aqueous alkaline cleaners, and other ancillary quick assurance of a safe workspace. Our new
value. This allows us to provide a materials used in NDT inspections. Met-L-Chek instadose+ dosimeter badge is revolutionizing
seamless, fully integrated solution, and a has a close working relationship with other the way a dosimeter captures, reads, and
single point of contact for our customers. quality-conscious suppliers such as CeeBee reports radiation exposure by offering high-
Matec’s strength lies in its capability to Aviation, Circle Systems Inc., and Labino AB. dose notification alerts, online badge
develop innovative solutions—both We invite you to contact us at (310) 450-1111 reassignments, and automatic and on-demand
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MPM Products Inc. Classroom’s full suite of online NDT courses
Ontario, California can provide you with the quality training
Booth 319 you need to get you where you want to go—
Over the past four decades, MPM has all at a very affordable price. Experience the
grown to become one of the largest advantages of online training today! Contact
MISTRAS Group Inc. distributors of NDT products and Bill Cronberger at (716) 812-8165, billc@ndt
Princeton Junction, New Jersey accessories in the United States with an classroom.com, or info@ndtclassroom.com.
Booth 506 inventory of thousands of NDT products and
MISTRAS Group (NYSE: MG) is a leading equipment. The company also provides a
“one source” global provider of technology- well-trained calibration, equipment repair
enabled asset protection solutions used to (both onsite and offsite), and preventative
evaluate the structural integrity of critical maintenance service team—delivering the
energy, industrial, and public infrastructure. reliability, equipment knowledge, and
Mission critical services and solutions are service efficiency on which leading
delivered globally and provide customers NDT Italiana SRL
companies have grown to depend. An
with asset life extension, improved Concorezzo, Italy
award-winning supplier, MPM is committed
productivity and profitability, compliance Booth 642
to complete customer satisfaction, superior
with government safety and environmental NDT Italiana has more than 60 years of
customer service, exceptional product
regulations, and enhanced risk experience in the field of NDT. The
service, on-time shipping, and verified
management operational decisions. headquarters are in Italy, near Milan, with a
order accuracy.
MISTRAS uniquely combines its industry- large area devoted to production and goods
leading products and technologies, stocking, to guarantee quick supply to
NDT Classroom Inc. customers. Our company is certified UNI EN
including 24/7 online monitoring of critical
Buffalo, New York ISO 9001 and approved NATO AQAP-120,
assets; mechanical integrity and NDT
Booth 406 and is equipped with internal chemical and
services; destructive testing services;
Chuck Hellier’s NDT Classroom: Online electronic laboratories, technical service,
process and fixed asset engineering and
Training That Works! Founded by NDT and specialized consulting for the service of
consulting services; and its world class
industry legends Chuck Hellier and Jim our customers. NDT Italiana manufactures
enterprise inspection data management and
Treat, NDT Classroom is a pioneer in online liquid penetrants, magnetic powders,
analysis software (PCMS™) to provide
NDT training. NDT Classroom courses ultrasonic couplants, and manual and
comprehensive and competitive products,
feature engaging, interactive HD video– automatic testing systems, updating its
systems, and services solutions from a
based training designed to create a range to the latest technologies, caring for
single source provider. Visit us in Booth 506
classroom-like environment with an product safety and environmental
or at mistrasgroup.com.
instructor. Our videos provide clear, close- protection. Elite liquid penetrants include
up demonstrations of the subject material visible liquid penetrants, sensitivity level 2
Mitcorp and make frequent use of formative EN-ISO 3452-2, and qualified for use from
Taoyuan City, Taiwan evaluation techniques that require learners –10 °C to 100 °C, liquid penetrants for high
Booth 408 to respond and demonstrate their temperatures (up to 200 °C), visible liquid
Mitcorp is a leading industrial video knowledge and understanding as they penetrants in nonflammable, ecological
borescope manufacturer located in Taiwan. progress through a course. This ensures formulations, and fluorescent liquid
We provide not only products, but also that misunderstandings or penetrants, available in traditional and water-
solutions. Our mission is innovation by the misinterpretations can be detected and based nonflammable. Elite magnetics include
customers and for the customers. Mitcorp corrected quickly. We’ve coupled the high luminescence magnetic powders,
has accumulated over 200 patents, and still benefits of video with the ability to interact fluorescent and visible magnetic concentrates
we keep working on industry-leading with the instructor directly through email. for dilution in water, and black magnetic
technologies to serve nondestructive Students can ask questions to real people
inspections. We believe video borescopes and get real responses. It’s the next best
should be accessible to all who need them, thing to going through the coursework in
challenging the view that reliable and person with the instructor by your side, and
accurate inspection products should be so at a fraction of the cost. With NDT
highly priced that they become impractical Classroom you can reduce costly travel
for hardworking business owners. We expenses, take less time away from the job,
believe the best that technology has to offer be trained wherever and whenever it’s
should be used to benefit our customers’ convenient for you, and learn at your own
practical, everyday business needs. pace. All major NDT methods offered.
Whether you are looking to upskill yourself,
your employees, or your students, NDT
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liquids and white background lacquers. Elite successful management of NDT personnel
ultrasonic couplants are available ready to and activities. The membership is
use, in powder, for very high temperatures. composed of individuals from member
UV LED light lamps provide portable, fixed, companies involved in the use, practice,
customized solutions. For leak testing, we and promotion of NDT. For the most part,
offer gas-proof technical foam product, safe NDT Systems Inc. members are NDT professionals, managers,
and very sensitive for the detection of gas Huntington Beach, California and executives involved in furnishing or
leaks; and vacuum boxes (special boxes to Booth 743 using NDT services or products. There will
test parts that cannot be put under pressure). For more than 45 years, NDT Systems Inc. be information at the booth about
NDT Italiana’s products are sold in over has been a leader in designing, membership and our 2019 annual
100 countries. manufacturing, and selling high-quality, conference. The program for 2019 consists
advanced ultrasonic testing equipment to the of two NDT management sessions, a
NDT marketplace. These portable products regulatory session, and two technical
include ultrasonic bond testers, a variety of sessions. There will also be two
thickness gauges, and flaw detectors, as well management-training seminars on Tuesday
as a wide range of precision ultrasonic and Friday mornings. The annual conference
transducers and manual/automated and management training seminars will be
scanners. Based in Huntington Beach, held at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas,
NDT Seals Inc. Nevada, on 12–14 February 2019.
Houston, Texas California, NDT Systems offers a wide
portfolio of products to support the Attendance is free for personnel from
Booth 829
inspection of almost all materials from NDTMA member companies. Go to
Welcome to NDT Seals’ hometown! We
metals, ceramics, and plastics to advanced ndtma.org for more information, or visit us
design, manufacture, and distribute the
composite materials commonly used in at Booth 918 at the ASNT Annual
patented NDT Inspection Plug and NDT
aerospace, oil and gas, power generation, Conference.
Inspection Point Labels used in the process
safety management and mechanical integrity and transportation. Our equipment offers
efforts underway in the process industries. high-quality and full functionality at a Newco Inc.
competitive price. Customized solutions Florence, South Carolina
We are an ASNT Corporate Partner and a big
including fully automated inspection Booth 756
supporter of the Greater Houston Section of
solutions and specialized transducers are Newco has been in the business of
ASNT, and our quality management system is
also available. Visit us at Booth 743. supplying NDT equipment, supplies,
ISO 9001:2015 certified. Please visit us at
calibration, repair, and custom system
ndtseals.com and at Booth 829.
design in all NDT disciplines since 1974. We
represent many manufacturers and can
NDT Solutions assist you in finding products or developing
New Richmond, Wisconsin
integrated custom designs for all your NDT
Booth 928
needs both domestically and globally. Our
NDT Solutions (ndts.com) is a leader in
service department is second to none and
transforming conventional NDT into a
is ISO 17025 accredited. We are proud to
digital reality. We are committed to improving
service a variety of fields such as
inspection processes and operational
automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas,
efficiencies while providing excellent customer
aerospace, airline, nuclear, utility, and
service. NDTS is an advanced NDT solutions
chemical industries, as well as the military
and services company. Our team is highly
and governmental sectors. Our
skilled and motivated to take on the most
knowledgeable staff and “customer first”
challenging opportunities. NDTS specializes in
attitude has made Newco a leader in NDT
the design and integration of testing solutions
customer service. Visit Booth 756 to find
that satisfy our customers’ inspection
out how we can partner with you to achieve
requirements. Our engineering team can
success!
design for simple conventional inspection
systems to complex robotic solutions. We offer NDTMA
a variety of NDT equipment, mobile automated Celebration, Florida Nikon Metrology Inc.
Booth 918 Brighton, Michigan
scanning systems, calibration service, supplies,
The NDTMA (Nondestructive Testing Booth 304
Level III consulting, subject matter experts,
Management Association) was formed over Nikon Metrology Inc. offers the most
“Lab in the Box” strategies, lab and field
50 years ago to provide a forum for the complete metrology product portfolio,
services, unique inspection systems, research
open exchange of managerial, technical, including 3D laser scanners, X-ray and
and development, and engineering support.
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large-scale measuring machines, indoor areas for NDT across the oil and gas,
GPS for tracking and positioning, metrology refineries, aerospace, nuclear, power
software, and state-of-the-art vision generation, rail, and manufacturing process
measuring instruments featuring optical industries. We can provide total asset
and mechanical 3D metrology solutions. coverage with highly scalable multisensor
These innovative metrology solutions NOVO DR Ltd. systems to suit your needs. Our fit and
respond to the advanced inspection Petah, Tikva, Israel forget sensors operate in extremely high
requirements of manufacturers active in Booth 810 operating temperatures, in excess of
aerospace, electronics, automotive, NOVO DR Ltd. is a leading developer and 250 °C, and our product range covers 7 to
medical, consumer, and other industries. manufacturer of cutting-edge portable 150 MHz frequency and includes high
Visit nikonmetrology.com for more details. digital radiography X-ray inspection resolution probes, fit and forget sensors,
systems. We produce the latest generation and flexible arrays. Novosound sensors and
SPONSOR flat panel–based radiography inspection probes offer a number of key benefits: cost
systems for the NDT, security, science, and effectiveness; flexible and low profile; fit
art sectors. Combining our decades of and forget functionality; high temperature
experience and intensive in-house research operation; removes need for couplant;
and development, NOVO DR is taking existing systems compatibility; low power
portable digital radiography to the highest consumption; short lead times; and
level possible while emphasizing the wireless or wired options. Please come and
following strong points: highest image talk to us at Booth 216,+ 44 (0)1698
quality, portability and small footprint, 678419, or info@novsound.net, or visit
North Star Imaging Inc. – SILVER novosound.net.
SPONSOR
Rogers, Minnesota Nucleom Inc.
Booth 703 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
North Star Imaging (NSI) ranks among the Booth 434
most sophisticated global resource for Nucleom is an industry leader specializing
turnkey industrial 2D and 3D digital in advanced NDT applications and
radiography and computed tomography (CT) customized and engineered inspection
X-ray equipment. Industrial X-ray scanning ruggedness, efficient user experience, and solutions. Whether in the nuclear field,
is often used for R&D, failure analysis, field work optimization and safety. The pipelines, aerospace, or steel structures,
quality control, internal measurements, Genie enhancement feature is NOVO DR’s Nucleom strives to provide the best
high-speed 3D scanning, 3D metrology, and proprietary feature. This first-of-its-kind, adapted services using the latest advanced
more. X-ray scanning allows users to view fully automated feature provides the NDT technologies based on close cooperation
and inspect the external and internal technician the ability to view both easy and with customers and equipment
structures of a part without opening or hard to penetrate materials in one single manufacturers. Nucleom experts have
destroying it. NSI’s efX® CT integrates the image, all with one touch of a finger. achieved several projects involving
most powerful CT reconstruction and integration, automated applications, complex
visualization software available, including geometries, and restricted-access inspections
modules for calibration, measurement, real- in Canada and around the world. Nucleom is
time density segmentation, and surface also specialized in advanced training,
extraction (point cloud and CAD procedures development, and technical
capabilities). This technology is used in consultation. Join our prestigious client list—
aerospace, automotive, electronics, and Novosound Ltd. contact us at nucleom.ca.
other industries. NSI also offers as-needed Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
inspection service at their six global sites Booth 216
Oceaneering International Asset
located in Minnesota, California, Novosound addresses the limitations of
Integrity
Massachusetts, France, United Kingdom, traditional ultrasound manufacture with a
Houston, Texas
and China. NSI is ISO 9001:2015 certified. remarkable printed sensor material.
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Suitable for continuous monitoring, our “fit
To solve your asset integrity requirements in
and forget” sensors and truly flexible arrays
these dynamic times, Oceaneering does
are a solution for all types of asset integrity
things differently, creatively, and smarter.
monitoring including internal and external
We are Connecting What’s Needed with
corrosion monitoring and early defect
What’s Next™ and solving your toughest
identification of pipework, pipelines,
challenges. As your trusted inspection
vessels, turbines, and difficult-to-access
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partner, our unmatched experience and the United States and United Kingdom Pacific Imaging LLC
field-proven portfolio of technologies, bases offer the latest and most advanced Irvine, California
engineering services, and inspection technology to support the oil and gas, Booth 1028
management capabilities give us the defense, petrochemical, renewables, and Pacific Imaging is a highly experienced,
flexibility to adapt and evolve—regardless of nuclear industries. Oceanscan’s global innovative, and global provider of digital
industry conditions. From material selection presence is influential in the rental and X-ray imaging products for NDT and security
to decommissioning, we provide sales arenas diverse in NDT, offshore imaging, inspection, and evaluation. The
comprehensive, risk-based solutions that survey, and marine construction with the company HQ is located in Irvine, California,
enable better decision making, focused latest advanced technologies to satisfy about 35 miles from Los Angeles International
spending, and increased safety. Our global client requirements. Oceanscan’s Airport. At the 2017 ASNT Annual Conference
reach, including technicians and field- philosophy is commitment to meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, we launched our
proven solutions, meets your requirements contractual requirements in a timely, patented drone-based X-ray solution for
for NDT. By working together, we will safely disciplined, and cost-effective manner with powerline inspection. It’s currently being used
and reliably reshape the future of asset products/services that meet the customer’s by state transmission corporations across
integrity. We offer specialist solutions for expectations. We aim, throughout all United States. This year, we are excited to
specialized concerns. We aim to address activities, to achieve the highest level of showcase turnkey solutions for oil and gas,
common and emerging integrity concerns customer satisfaction. Oceanscan concrete, and aerospace inspection. Please
such as corrosion under insulation, companies are backed by a worldwide visit us at Booth 1028 to see demo images
nonintrusive inspection, corrosion scabs, network of partnering companies employing acquired by our systems installed in the United
corrosion under pipe supports, continuous qualified and factory-trained staff. States, China, and India. We are a one-stop
monitoring of assets, and remote condition shop for X-ray based NDT products. All Pacific’s
monitoring. From inspecting standard SPONSOR hardware detectors are fully integrated with our
equipment to complex geometries, we software and connect with a single click. Our
provide you with the solutions required to projects feature mobile X-ray digital DR
gather data needed to make informed systems, high-resolution CR systems, factory
decisions. Experience a new-generation production system integration, industrial image
system for in-service corrosion monitoring processing, very large image set viewing,
without the major investment in Olympus America Inc. – SILVER electronic component counting, automatic
infrastructure and hardware. Built on the SPONSOR defect recognition (ADR), DICONDE, and cloud
industry-leading Ionix’s high-temperature Waltham, Massachusetts image archive, among others. Our other
HotSense™ platform and wirelessly Booth 503 services cover full-cycle product development,
connected by Inductosense’s batteryless Olympus provides an industry-leading including software integration and
WAND technology, the TRND system can be portfolio of innovative test, measurement, development, system engineering, regulatory
retrospectively installed and implemented and imaging instruments. Leading-edge clearance and registration, application training,
within the harshest of environments. Within testing technologies include remote visual and technical support, as well as custom
minutes of installation, quantitative wall inspection, microscopy, ultrasound, phased algorithm design and implementation for
thickness data can be acquired, remotely array, eddy current, eddy current array, special-purpose applications. Our key clients
analyzed, and reported through the cloud- X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction are located in the United States, China, India,
based data management system. (XRD), and optical metrology. Our products Brazil, Israel, Switzerland, Philippines, Vietnam,
include ultrasonic flaw detectors and and Hong Kong, to name a few. Innovation,
thickness gauges, video borescopes, customization, and customer service are the
borescopes, microscopes, XRF and XRD key core values that Pacific Imaging offers. We
analyzers, in-line and advanced NDT welcome all inquiries. Please contact us at
systems, and a large selection of industrial sales@pacific-imaging-llc.com.
scanners, probes, software programs, and
Oceanscan USA instrument accessories. Olympus
Pan American Industries Inc.
Stafford, Texas instruments are used in industrial and
Porter, Texas
Booth 316 research applications ranging from
Booth 443
Oceanscan Inc. is located in Stafford, just aerospace, power generation,
Pan American offers new equipment sales
minutes southwest of Houston, Texas, and petrochemical, manufacturing, and
for IrisXR electronics and hardware. Rental
supports the Gulf Coast Region with the automotive to consumer products. Olympus
systems and probes/hardware are also
rental of NDT equipment and consumables. instruments contribute to the quality of
available. Pan American also provides IRIS
Oceanscan Ltd. UK is a renowned leader products and add to the safety of
inspection services. For large-diameter
across Europe, the Middle East, and infrastructure and facilities.
pipes and long run inspections using
Southeast Asia, providing quality
extended range tools and pigs, Pan
equipment and services since 1989. Both
American supplies both equipment and
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operating technicians. Currently, real-time field experience with industrial X-ray part. If we don’t already have a probe that
inspections for up to 30.48 cm (12 in.) imaging, microfocus equipment, penetrant, works, we can design and manufacture
diameter and 609.6 m (2000 ft.) in length and magnetic particle equipment. custom probes for your unique design.
and IRISPig inspections up to 111.76 cm We can also develop custom software for
(44 in.) in diameter and 4.83 km (3 mi) in your application using tools already
length are available. available on the market. Our advanced
training is unmatched for all phased array,
Peak NDT ultrasonics, physics, and probe technology.
Derby, United Kingdom For more information go to thephasedarray
Booth 547 PH Tool Reference Standards company.com or send an email to
Peak NDT is a world-leading designer and Pipersville, Pennsylvania info@thephasedarraycompany.com.
manufacturer of high-performance conventional Booth 202
and phased array ultrasonic instrumentation PH Tool manufactures reference and
used in advanced engineering sectors. For over calibration standards and test blocks for the
35 years, our MicroPulse technology has been NDT industry and is a recognized leader in
used at the forefront of NDT ultrasonic electrical discharge machined notch and
technique development from high-performance flat-bottomed hole standards for use in
multichannel conventional technology, to both phased array and conventional Phoenix Inspection Systems Ltd.
phased array and now full matrix capture (FMC). ultrasonic testing (UT), electromagnetic Warrington, United Kingdom
Peak NDT’s conventional channel systems are testing, magnetic particle testing, liquid Booth 840
available from 2 to 64 channel variants, and our penetrant testing, and radiographic testing. Phoenix Inspection Systems Ltd. designs
phased array systems vary from 16/16 +16TX All standards are National Institute of and manufactures NDT scanners and
to 128/128 +128Tx as standard units and are Standards and Technology traceable and transducers covering the full range of
scalable up to 512/512 + 512Tx by utilizing MP can be made from customer or PH Tool– ultrasonic NDT techniques. Specialists in
Link. All our phased array channels may be supplied materials. In addition to the custom and application-specific solutions,
used for beam forming, and any combination of longstanding products and services offered, Phoenix also designs and develops fully
channels may be used in Tx and Rx. the company has perfected the surface and customized solutions for the most
Additionally, in FMC operation, all the subsurface discontinuity implantation challenging NDT inspections. Visit us at
programmed receive channels are received process for performance demonstration Booth 840 for the launch of our new
simultaneously without the requirement to qualification and personnel qualification Flexible Track Scanner and live
multiplex. Gigabit Ethernet is standard across test blocks for use with phased array UT demonstrations of Swift, a lightweight
our phased array products, allowing for and time of flight diffraction. Trust the magnetic wheeled scanner for controlled
continuous fast data rates of up to 120 MB/s experts with your standards. Contact us at and accurate TOFD inspection of 7.62 cm
from each instrument. Peak NDT’s long-standing sales@phtool.com or call today at (267) (3 in.) pipes up to flat; and MagMan, a
fully open and transparent data format provides 203-1600. versatile magnetic wheeled scanner
you the freedom to develop your own fully capable of holding up to 12 probes for
customizable software platform easily circumferential and longitudinal pipe weld
utilizing standard TCIP type Ethernet sockets, inspections. Phoenix solutions are used by
making integration into bespoke systems some of the world’s leading companies to
simple, negating the need for clumsy or ensure safety standards and improve
complicated APIs or SDKs getting in the way. quality and efficiency. To find out more join
Software platforms such as UTEX Scientifics
The Phased Array Co. us at Booth 840, visit phoenixisl.com, or
West Chester, Ohio email sales@phoenixisl.com for more
Inspectionware and TWI’s Crystal FMC
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software are available for operation with
The Phased Array Company (TPAC) serves
the MicroPulse instruments, providing off-
the NDT industry with all things related to
the-shelf flexible solutions. Visit Booth 547
phased array ultrasound. We solve your
to see the new MicroPulse LTPA and the
most challenging phased array needs by
MicroPulse LT, or visit peakndt.com.
offering a wide variety of services to help
you create custom ultrasound solutions.
Peltec Services Inc. Save time and mitigate risks by discovering
Darlington, South Carolina
the best method and equipment for your
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specific testing needs by using our years of
Peltec Services is complemented by a fully
experience and research. With our extensive
degreed, highly motivated team that has
probe library, we can help you decide on
more than 60 years of combined worldwide
the best testing method for a particular

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Phoenix LLC PIXXGEN Corp.
Monona, Wisconsin Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Booth 541 Booth 452
Transforming nuclear technology since 2005, PIXXGEN Corp. is an innovative designer,
Phoenix LLC designs and manufactures the developer, and manufacturer of cutting-
world’s strongest neutron generators. edge flat-panel digital X-ray detectors and
Phoenix’s nondestructive, cutting-edge software to meet requirements of security,
technology has been safely used in the industrial, and human and veterinary users
aerospace, defense, medical, and energy based on two decades of experience in
sectors to improve manufacturing efficiency radiology and digital imaging. We assure
team of passionate engineers and technicians
and quality. Opening in 2019, our state-of- control of design, manufacturing, and
roll up their sleeves and produce little marvels.
the-art neutron imaging center will be the first quality of our digital X-ray products by
PRAGMA products are very powerful but simple
facility of its kind to offer commercial neutron constant investment in R&D and quality
to use, handling multiple modalities and
imaging services by utilizing Phoenix’s high- management. PIXXGEN has been leading
multiple platforms. We feel NDT requires the
intensity neutron technology. Neutron the detector market with technologies and
most up-to-date technology, the most effective
radiography is a best-in-class NDT its design. We were the first company to
products, and the most accurate traceability.
methodology for showing highly detailed introduce AED (auto exposure detection)
It’s our contribution to making our world safer
information about the internal structure of an technology in 2011 with flat-panel digital
and our industries more effective.
object. For many components, neutrons reveal X-ray detectors. It allows easy and simple
defects that would be completely invisible to upgrades of all different brands and models
traditional X-rays. The 929.03 m2 (10 000 ft2) of generators, and now it has become
neutron imaging services facility will provide industry standard. PIXXGEN aims to Premium Inspection & Testing
neutron activation analysis, radiation effects continue leading the flat-panel digital X-ray Houston, Texas
testing, and neutron (“n-ray”) and even detector technology, especially for security Booth 320
standard X-ray imaging. Learn more at and industrial digital imaging users, by Premium Inspection & Testing Group is a
PhoenixWI.com or contact us directly at providing innovative and cutting-edge NDT family of best-in-class companies working
info@phoenixwi.com. specialized 30.48 cm (12 in.) 30.48 cm together as one team to safely deliver
(12 in.) and 35.56 cm (14 in.) 43.18 cm exceptional NDT, inspection, and calibration
(17 in.) detectors. The detectors provide services to our clients through unparalleled
high-image quality with 16-bit dynamic knowledge, experience, and technology
range and high productivity with simple and leadership. Our mission is to safely provide
easy installation and operation at low and the highest quality industrial inspection and
high energy levels. testing services with unparalleled accuracy
Pinnacle X-Ray Solutions and value. Safety, integrity, and
Suwanee, Georgia professionalism are the cornerstones of our
Booth 510 promise to the market. We deliver on this
Pinnacle X-Ray Solutions Inc. (PXS Inc.) is a promise with investments in the very best
full-service digital imaging solutions company. people supported by the very best technology.
By offering the most advanced imaging Our culture of exceptional service delivery is a
PRAGMA
equipment along with all-access customer direct result of the experience and
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
service and support, PXS Inc. is reimagining commitment of our technicians, inspectors,
Booth 920
the imaging industry. Our comprehensive, and management. Premium provides leading
PRAGMA is specialized in the design and
full-service company specializes in the sale, industrial NDT, inspection, and calibration
manufacture of portable instruments and
manufacture, service, and support of 2D and services to meet your quality, reliability, and
systems for NDT. Technologies such as
3D computed tomography X-ray systems, and regulatory requirements nationwide. Did you
phased array, ultrasound, and eddy current
we offer digital radiography and computed know? In 2018, Premium acquired Quality
are provided with multimodality and
tomography inspection services as well. PXS Testing Services (now QTS Division) as well as
portability. PRAGMA distinguishes itself by
Inc. delivers the state-of-the-art technology you LANDBROS Aerial UAS to provide even more
focusing on improving workflow efficiency
want and the expert professional services you exceptional services. Premium offers
and keeping NDT technologies accessible
need. With over 75 years of industry knowledge inspection services, advanced NDT methods,
and easy to operate. PRAGMA’s products
behind us, we not only understand what it UAS services, calibration, rope access, NDT
and solutions are helping industries such as
takes to keep your equipment up to date and training, auditing and Level III consulting,
aerospace, oil and gas, transportation, and
running smoothly, we work around the clock to pipeline integrity, mechanical testing,
heavy industries. Our mission is to provide the
give your concerns the attention they deserve. failure analysis and mechanical integrity.
NDT market with portable instruments and
Your time is valuable; your needs are urgent; Wherever, whenever! Our dedicated team of
systems that are highly performing, yet simple
your support system is Pinnacle. talented professionals stands ready to serve
to use and application-driven. Every day, our
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you wherever you are, whenever you need 100 years in organizational experience, we We also provide two special sections—Vision
us. Contact us at (281) 310-5415 or distinguish ourselves as leading experts in & Sensors and NDT—which offer practical how-
info@pitinc.com. radiation source encapsulation, sealed to editorial.
source distribution, and turnkey services.
Proceq Our global network of export specialists and R-CON NDT Inc.
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania brokers gives customers the expertise they Menomonie, Wisconsin
Booth 1013 need when trying to solve challenging Booth 309
Proceq is a manufacturer of high-quality logistics issues. A comprehensive quality R-CON NDT is a stocking distributor of NDT
portable testing solutions for many different control process guarantees our industrial supplies with over 20 years of experience.
industries. Proceq’s ground penetrating radar sources meet or exceed all industry Our professional sales team is composed of
(GPR) instrument, Proceq GPR Live, launched standards, including US Nuclear Regulatory experienced NDT specialists possessing the
earlier this year. Proceq GPR Live uses a Commission regulations. We provide knowledge and commitment to solve our
patented stepped frequency continuous wave radiation sources used in a wide variety of customers’ most challenging NDT applications.
technique to provide the best possible detection testing and measurement applications, R-CON NDT specializes in advanced ultrasonic,
of objects in concrete, no matter the depth. The specializing in NDT, but also including X-ray conventional X-ray equipment, film and
full-featured Pundit ultrasonic concrete tester fluorescence; neutron activation analysis; processing chemistry, digital X-ray imaging
compliments the GPR method by providing a thickness, level, mass, and flow gauging; technologies, computed tomography, eddy
live phased array B-scan image on concrete oil well logging; reactor startup; and current, magnetic particle equipment and
elements over 0.9 m (3 ft) thick with a pulse security imaging and inspection. We also materials, and liquid penetrant systems and
echo test. Our ultrasonic instrument, the Proceq offer a comprehensive range of NDT materials. Our knowledgeable and
Flaw Detector 100, offers advanced conventional equipment and accessories, including conscientious team will ensure your equipment
ultrasonic performance and can be upgraded at Sentinel gamma radiography projectors, and supplies arrive when you need them.
any time to phased array and time of flight X-ray equipment, and Sentinel digital R-CON NDT represents only world-class
diffraction. Proceq has launched the world’s first radiography systems. In addition to that, manufacturers of NDT equipment and supplies
Internet of Things (IoT) hardness tester, the QSA offers a wide variety of safety and can provide solutions throughout the
Equotip Live. Our Equotip family of portable equipment, training courses, and services. United States. Other services we provide are
hardness testers offers unmatched features, equipment calibration and repair as well as
accuracy, and reliability across three testing Quality Equipment Distributors Inc. NDT consulting and training. Our corporate
techniques: ultrasonic contact impedance (UCI), Houston, Texas; Buffalo, New York office is located in Menomonie, Wisconsin, with
leeb (rebound), and portable rockwell. The Booth 923 satellite locations in Indianapolis, Kansas City,
company’s strong research and development Quality Equipment Distributors Inc. (QED) is and Pittsburgh.
team at its headquarters in Switzerland an ISO 9001:2015 certified company with a
continues to create Swiss-manufactured philosophy based on integrity, honesty, and
products that feature the latest technology and customer satisfaction. Here at QED we
set industry standards. With subsidiaries in specialize in the sale and service of a wide
North and South America, United Kingdom, variety of NDT equipment and supplies.
Russia, the Middle East, China, and Singapore, Stop by Booth 923 to see what we have to
the company provides its international offer, meet our sales team, and enter to win REL Inc.
customers with excellent local support. Please a great prize. “For all your NDT equipment, Calumet, Michigan
stop by our booth or visit us online at supplies, and service—think Quality.” Booth 549
proceq.com to learn more about how Proceq REL Inc. is a world-class manufacturer of
products can meet your testing needs. Quality Magazine intelligent fluorescent penetrant inspection
Deerfield, Illinois (iFPI) testing equipment, cleaning systems,
SPONSOR Booth 1020 and LED UV-A lamps. REL provides engineered
Quality serves the quality assurance and turnkey solutions for nondestructive inspection
process improvement needs of more than professionals in oil and gas, aerospace,
50 000 manufacturing professionals. We defense, medical, and automotive industries.
report on the use of sound metrology REL incorporates safety, preventive
methods, statistical analysis, and process maintenance, and reliability considerations in
QSA Global Inc. – SILVER SPONSOR all products. REL designs all products and
improvement techniques to significantly
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
improve quality on the shop floor and in equipment to withstand the wettest, dirtiest,
Booth 603
manufacturing planning. Editorial coverage and toughest environments on planet Earth
QSA Global Inc. specializes in supplying
focuses on the practical application of and and, if necessary, in outer space! Visit us in
high-quality, high-performance radiation
latest advancements in metrology methods Booth 549 to see the latest in iFPI and
sources used in NDT devices, oil well
and wquipment, software and analytical tools, LED UV-A lighting solutions.
logging, and industrial processes. With over
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RF System Lab also builds large gantry-type systems alloys, as well as carbon equivalents.
Traverse City, Michigan employing both pulse-echo and through- Results are proven precise by numerous
Booth 305 transmission techniques, and including 3D pipeline and refinery field studies. Answers
RF System Lab is a worldwide leader in tracking capability of complex parts. Steel are instantaneous (a few seconds) all with
remote visual inspection and video plate and pipe UT inspection systems, as the ease of a 2.04 kg (4.5 lb) handheld
borescope technology. Makers of leading well as systems for inspection of train rails analyzer. And yes, the weight includes the
edge, full 360° articulating video borescopes and rolling stock are offered too. Phased battery and the argon canister stored safely
like the innovative VJ-Advance, available in array–based scanning systems are available in the handle. Also, measure residuals in
2.8, 3.9, or 6.9 mm (0.11, 0.15, or 0.27 in.) for immersion and contact inspection of steels for HF alkylation. Carbon content is
insertion tube diameters. The VJ-Advance disks, plates, tubes, and pipes, as measured, sometimes allowing the less
delivers the ideal features sought after by applicable. Marketing and technical support restrictive Cu + Ni threshold. Over 250 units
industry professionals. RF System Lab offers in North America is provided by the in the field! SciAps Inc. is a Boston-based
an industry-first no obligation demo program ScanMaster office and facilities located in company specializing in handheld LIBS,
to allow companies to test the VJ-Advance on Greenville, South Carolina. X-ray, and Raman technologies. In addition
an inspection at their facility, for free. to our industry-leading Z-200 for carbon,
ScanTech Instruments Inc. CE, and residuals, the LIBS also measures
Longview, Texas low silicon in carbon steels for sulfidic
Booth 502 corrosion applications, as well as low Cr in
ScanTech Instruments Inc. provides steels for flow-accelerated corrosion
innovative solutions supporting corrosion concerns. SciAps also manufactures the
and weld mapping inspection using X-200 and X-250 handheld XRF analyzers
Rohmann Eddy Current Instruments ultrasonic techniques. We offer a wide for PMI. X-ray is the preferred technology for
& Systems range of manual, motorized, and automated noncarbon applications due to its speed
Spartanburg, South Carolina ultrasonic scanners. Our versatile systems and ease of use. The SciAps X-250
Booth 449 are closely integrated with our X Series measures 0.02% Si in steels in less than
Specializing in providing eddy current Controller/UT module, which offers 10 s, making it a great option for both
instruments and probes for high speed in- expandability and gives our customers sulfidic corrosion and general PMI. All
line testing of manufactured parts, maximum flexibility and high return on their analyzers are built on the Android operating
Rohmann continues to lead the field with investment. Our research and development system; have integrated WiFi, Bluetooth,
the recent launch of the Elotest PL600; the group creates innovative mechanical and GPS; and offer instant connectivity for
latest addition to Rohmann’s trend-setting, designs, and our customer service team automated data downloading, printing, and
high-speed, automated, in-line eddy current ensures continuous improvement across storage. Please visit us at Booth 324 for a
equipment. Stop at Rohmann’s booth to say our product line. ScanTech is an industry demonstration of both our state-of-the-art
hello and learn more about Rohmann eddy leader, with experience dating back more laser and X-ray based alloy analyzers.
current instruments and systems. In than 20 years, including field work,
addition to the Elotest PL600, a variety of engineering, manufacturing, and SE International Inc.
other Rohmann instruments and eddy production. Our robust and powerful Summertown, Tennessee
current probes and accessories will be on scanners are built using modules designed Booth 418
display. Visit us at rohmann.com. and manufactured in-house by ScanTech. Radiation Alert® products include handheld
Our analyst software is tightly integrated ionizing radiation detection instruments for
ScanMaster IRT Inc. with our scanners and capable of producing surface and air contamination. The Sentry
Greenville, South Carolina high-resolution scans, analysis, and EC is designed to ensure the personal
Booth 329 reporting to meet your customers’ needs. safety of radiologists and other personnel
ScanMaster IRT Inc. is a world-class that work in occupations with potential
supplier of ultrasonic testing (UT) systems, X-ray or gamma
instruments, and transducers for inspection exposure. The
of materials, parts, and structures in pocket-sized unit
various industries. Approximately 500 allows for
systems and 1500 instruments made by collecting dose
ScanMaster are currently being operated by SciAps Inc. and dose rate
numerous users all over the world. Woburn, Massachusetts data and has
ScanMaster is a prime supplier of systems Booth 324 built-in
for immersion scanning of rotationally Three reasons to visit SciAps Booth 324: selectable alarm
symmetrical products. Such scanning SciAps manufactures the world’s only levels. The free
systems are approved for use by the major handheld analyzer for carbon SentryCom Software
engine disk manufacturers. ScanMaster measurements in steel, stainless, and other enables you to
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generate incident reconstruction for analysis into R&D, and special system design, we react governing agencies worldwide: the US
and easily set the vibrating and audio alerts to very quickly to customer needs and provide government, the American Society of
your desired levels. Stop by and see our the solutions you require with unique Mechanical Engineers, ASTM International,
new instruments: the Ranger, the Range features. We have the most innovative LED- AMS-2644, and prime aerospace and
EXP, the Monitor 200, the Area Monitor, and based UV lamps in the NDT industry. In military contractors and original equipment
Monitor1000 EC. NIST calibrations are Houston we will be demonstrating our manufacturers. Dubl-Chek fluorescent
available on all of our survey meters. standard magnetic particle bench and our penetrants are used widely in aerospace,
full line of inspection lamps, including the while Dubl-Chek visible penetrants are used
Sensor Networks new intrinsically safe designed ST-30 throughout the welding and nuclear power
Boalsburg, Pennsylvania certified explosion-proof lamp and our industries. Sherwin, an independent
Booth 912 newest lamp, the Phoenix Supreme, which penetrant manufacturer, is committed to
Sensor Networks Inc. (SNI) specializes in includes our proprietary automatic defect providing its customers with the best
inspection, testing, and asset-integrity measurement tool to provide highly quality products at very competitive prices.
solutions utilizing ultrasonic testing (UT), accurate measurements of crack size (which Our products are manufactured and
remote visual testing (RVI), and Internet of can be used for Tam panel qualifications) available around the world. Approved by all
Things (IoT) technologies for corrosion/ and the ability to add an endoscope for UV major defense and aerospace contractors,
erosion monitoring. We will be displaying inspection in hard-to-access internal areas we have a complete line of penetrants and
and demonstrating our new microPIMS® of parts under inspection. In addition to our magnetic particle products: fluorescent and
installed UT sensor platform, our standard LED lighting we also offer custom-designed visible penetrants, emulsifiers, developers,
and customized conventional and phased- systems and a feature-packed line of cleaners, solvent removers, penetrant test
array transducer capabilities, and our standard magnetic particle and fluorescent pieces, ultraviolet lamps, accessories, and
unique RVI PTZx and loose-parts retrieval penetrant systems, part-cleaning systems fluorescent and colored particles.
tooling including JAWS 2.0. SNI will launch (pre and post inspection), effluent
several new products at this event. management systems, and accessories for SignalNDT
your inspection department. Our US-based Goleta, California
SG NDT Inc. sales, support, and service professionals Booth 949
Levis, Quebec, Canada will be on hand to be sure all your SignalNDT is a division of iCRco Inc., an OEM
Booth 848 questions are answered. We are seeking manufacturer of imaging components, and a
SG NDT Inc. was incorporated in March 2012. professional representatives in the global leader in digital imaging systems
SG NDT specializes in the development of Americas as we continue to expand our designed for NDT, X-ray inspection, baggage
eddy current equipment and custom probes. local approach to new markets. For screening, and thickness gauging. Launched
We primarily serve the energy and defense additional information or to view our in 2016, SignalNDT is a focused engineering
industries, providing standard products and product range, visit crackcheck.com. group with an accomplished history of
custom systems for a wide variety of delivering precision X-ray imaging products
applications. SG NDT’s innovative solutions Shenzhen Coantec Automation since 1990. SignalNDT core competencies are
have been used in a variety of applications Technology Co. Ltd. in the specialized development and
such as steam generator inspections and Shenzhen, China manufacturing of imaging systems and
standard tube inspections. The technical staff Booth 327 software. SignalNDT guarantees quality
at SG NDT pioneered the development of Shenzhen Coantec Automation Technology throughout the life cycle of our products with
digital eddy current equipment and inspection Co. Ltd., founded in 2012, is a high-tech a dedicated US-based and international
systems for the worldwide NDT market for over enterprise specialized in R&D, production, service center (in The Netherlands) to provide
30 years. Their first single-channel digital eddy and sales of industrial and police 24/7 service and support. SignalNDT
current equipment was designed in 1983. videoscopes. We have our own brand of designs, develops, and manufactures
videoscope, COANTEC. everything in its factory in California.
SignalNDT is proud to be a leader in the
radiography space and for continuously
setting the benchmark of excellence in NDT
and security X-ray imaging applications.
Shanghai CHiNDT Systems and SIUI

Services Sherwin Inc. Shantou, China
Shanghai, China South Gate, California Booth 539
Booth 919 Booth 640 Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments
ChiNDT will be exhibiting many items from Sherwin Inc. has been manufacturing the Co. Ltd. (SIUI) has been dedicated to
their innovative, feature-rich product range. Dubl-Chek line of penetrants since 1964. innovative development of healthcare and
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and manufacture of medical imaging training centers around the world use
systems and NDT equipment. SIUI has Sonaspection flawed specimens for training
achieved significant breakthroughs and is and qualification of NDT personnel to
maintaining steady and rapid growth. Today various certification schemes to include
SIUI has become a renowned key high-tech SNT-TC-1A, EN 473, PCN, and the ASNT
corporation at the national level specialized Central Certification Program (ACCP).
in R&D, manufacture, and sale of Sonaspection also offers training and
ultrasound imaging systems, medical X-ray practice specimens for the American
imaging products, and NDT instruments. Petroleum Institute. Sonaspection Sonaxis SA
State-of-the-art technologies, cutting-edge manufactures a wide range of flawed Besancon, France
equipment, fine craftsmanship, quality specimens and specializes in producing Booth 548
products, and good service have earned custom flawed specimens and custom Sonaxis SA has been manufacturing
SIUI a great reputation among customers in reference blocks to clients’ specific ultrasound probes—single element, linear,
the industry. As a pioneering national high- requirements. Please visit our booth to pick and matrix phased array, and high
tech corporation, SIUI has invested over up our corporate brochure and discuss any frequency—for NDT since 2002 and is
10% of its sales revenue in technical requirements you may have. You can also ISO 9001:2015 certified. With our in-house
innovation for years. Many technological download the brochure from our website at designers and manufacturing unit, we have
achievements were made, and the sonaspection.com. specialized in designing and manufacturing
consequent successful industrialization has custom-made probes suited to applications
contributed to SIUI products taking a in the aircraft, aerospace, nuclear, steel,
leading position in China’s industry. Based energy industries, and research. We
on its strength in ultrasound, SIUI will support our customers throughout their
diversify its growth in the sectors of medical projects and provide very high quality
imaging systems and NDT devices, and products within very competitive lead times.
aims to become an international large
group company.
Socomate International Sonatest LTD

Crecy La Chapelle, France San Antonio, Texas
Booth 546 Booth 524
Socomate International is your OEM
SONOTEC
Sonatest is a leading NDT equipment
Islandia, New York
partner, providing both conventional and manufacturer recognized for the quality
Booth 532
phased array ultrasonic testing electronics of its rugged and portable products for
SONOTEC US Inc. is the American sister
for automated inspections systems. Based 60 years. Specializing in ultrasonic NDT
company of Germany-headquartered
near Paris, Socomate has been providing technologies—including conventional, time
SONOTEC GmbH, the leading specialist in
ultrasonic instrumentation to research, of flight diffraction, phased array, and the
ultrasonic testing solutions with more than
academic, and industrial users since 1977. new full matrix capture/total focusing
25 years of experience. SONOTEC designs
Since 2001 Socomate International has method, Sonatest provides solutions to
and produces high-end ultrasonic thickness
supplied its state-of-the-art worldwide- a number of industries, such as
gauges, flaw detectors, and standard
patented FASST technology in order to meet transportation, oil and gas, aerospace,
probes. The recently developed SONOAIR
its partners’ most demanding requirements. automotive, power generation, civil
system is the first and only real phased
The company’s strengths lie in its capacity engineering, and heavy industries. We are
array, air-coupled ultrasonic testing solution
to develop innovative solutions and to proud to put clever design and innovative
for noncontact inspections of composites,
support its clients everywhere around the technologies at the center of our products,
thin metals, and other materials. In
world. offering powerful solutions that are easy to
addition, SONOTEC has its own piezo-
use and will withstand the harsh
composite production in Germany and
Sonaspection International Inc. environments in which NDT is carried out.
manufactures customized immersion,
Concord, North Carolina We are focused on achieving our goals of
phased array, and air-coupled transducers
Booth 233 simplicity, capability, and reliability within
for automatic inspection systems. Quality
Sonaspection International was formed in both our product development and
made in Germany and local service for our
1980 and is the longest established customer relationships. Sonatest supports
American customers is what we stand for.
manufacturer of NDT flawed specimens with the market from locations in San Antonio,
two manufacturing facilities located in Texas; the United Kingdom; and Canada
Concord, North Carolina, and Lancaster, with an extended network spanning five
England. We supply the nuclear and oil and continents.
gas industries worldwide. Numerous
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magnetostrictive sensor guided wave laboratory applications. As a global supplier
technology for a number of applications with strategically located design and
including inspecting and monitoring piping manufacturing facilities in North America,
with temperatures up to 500 °C; automated Europe, and Asia, Spellman is committed to
omnidirectional scanning of tank walls and providing best-in-class support to original
Source Production & Equipment Co. tank bottoms; and guided wave testing of equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers
Inc. buried anchor rods, steel ropes, heat and end users throughout the world.
St. Rose, Louisiana exchanger tubes, and aircraft structures. Spellman provides a broad range of products
Booth 653 SwRI also has developed remote field eddy for inspection applications including food
Industry experts since 1974, Source current technology for nonpiggable small- inspection, thickness gauging, liquid level
Production & Equipment Company (SPEC) diameter pipes. In addition, the SwRI- measurement, NDT, and circuit board and
is a leading manufacturer of industrial developed multichannel Enhanced Data microelectronics inspection. We offer modular
radiography equipment and gamma source Acquisition System® can be used for and standalone X-ray solutions for OEMs,
provider. Located in St. Rose, Louisiana, we numerous specialized ultrasonic inspection system integrators, and end users. From
proudly serve customers in the NDT, technologies. single-output high-voltage modules to
construction, industrial process, and medical integrated X-ray generators to monoblock
industries worldwide. SPEC supplies the X-ray sources to our portable Lorad SPX brand
world with quality industrial radiography X-ray imaging systems, we can provide a
products and radionuclide sources. Satisfying product for just about any configuration
stringent industry standards, SPEC’s required. Where a standard product may not
ISO-certified Total Quality Management (TQM) be a perfect fit, Spellman can provide
program adheres to ISO 9001:2008 and Spectronics Corp. customized solutions for our OEM partners.
13485:2013 procedures. Our TQM program Westbury, New York Additional information on Spellman and its
provides quality throughout the Booth 403 wide range of high-voltage and X-ray products
manufacturing process and ensures the end Spectroline® is the global leader in UVA is available at spellmanhv.com.
product meets our customers’ expectations. lights and accessories used in fluorescent
Safety is SPEC’s top priority. We strive to offer surface inspection for NDT. We stay one Talcyon Pte. Ltd.
the safest industrial radiography products on step ahead of industry trends and Singapore, Singapore
the market. Designed with the radiographer technological innovation to ensure you get Booth 349
in mind, our team of engineers research the most rugged, compliant lamps available Talcyon’s noninvasive solution for inner-
and develop products using advanced today, no matter the NDT application. We do diameter inspection of tubes up to
industry knowledge and user feedback. In in-house quality checks on all of our 10.16 cm (4 in.) enables ultrafast accurate
turn, this provides the end user with products and stand behind everything we inspection of boilers, fin fans, and other
products that are safe and reliable. manufacture, making us a trusted name in heat exchangers regardless of tube shape
Innovation coupled with advanced industry NDT. Our inspection lamps and radiometers or material.
knowledge allows SPEC to be a complete come with industry standard certificates, so
resource to its customers. SPEC’s onsite end users know that their Spectroline TEAM Industrial Services
manufacturing facility can provide products meet the latest requirements and Alvin, Texas
customized production services to meet standards. These standards include ISO Booth 334
your project needs. As an industry leader, 3059, ASTM 3022-15, and RRES 90061. TEAM Industrial Services is a worldwide leader
SPEC is proud to share knowledge by in minimizing equipment and asset downtime
offering diverse training courses that satisfy and providing online maintenance, inspection,
various industrial needs. and repair. We provide critical services to our
customers that enable them to maintain and
operate their facilities and equipment in a
safe and productive manner. Our more than
4000 trained, certified technicians are
Spellman High Voltage Electronics
available worldwide 24 hours a day, seven
Corp.
days a week, and 365 days a year to reduce
Southwest Research Institute Hauppauge, New York
costly downtime and maximize uptime. From
San Antonio, Texas Booth 809
single-part repair to turnarounds and
Booth 932 Spellman High Voltage Electronics is the
shutdowns—planned or unplanned—TEAM
Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI) is an world’s leading provider of high-
has the training, experience, technology, and
independent, nonprofit, applied research performance, high-voltage power converters
know-how to deliver high-quality
and development organization based in and X-ray sources for medical, industrial,
maintenance, inspection, and testing services
San Antonio, Texas. SwRI has developed semiconductor, security, analytical, and
anytime, anywhere.
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SPONSOR representatives and customer care staff are
veteran NDT professionals who help companies
solve tough inspection problems. They are
Technology Design Ltd. backed by a logistics team that is focused on
Winsford, United Kingdom timely and accurate order fulfillment. We
Booth 741 deal in an ever-changing marketplace,
Technology Design (TD) is a leader in the Teledyne ICM – BRONZE SPONSOR where new products are constantly being
manufacture and supply of advanced Andrimont, Belgium developed for the NDT industry. In an effort
industrial ultrasonic systems. We offer a Booth 633 to provide our customers with the latest
range of portable products that offer best- Our mission at Teledyne ICM is to facilitate developments, we continually monitor and
in-class time of flight diffraction (ToFD) and professionals’ lives by providing innovative, evaluate a wide range of NDT-related
phased array inspection capability. The user-friendly, and safe X-ray solutions, while products offered by numerous manufacturers.
next-generation Focus-Scan RX is a portable accompanying them throughout the use of Our expertise in NDT contributes to our
phased array and ToFD system, designed to our products. For more than 20 years, customers’ success. At TED, success means
empower the operator in the field, with Teledyne ICM has been an active company helping our customers meet or exceed their
configurations up to 64:128PR. The worldwide specializing in developing and business objectives. To accomplish this goal, we
operator can deploy multiple techniques manufacturing portable X-ray generators and provide extensive inventories in seven stocking
such as an eight independent channel ToFD detectors for NDT. Today, our X-ray solutions, locations for fast delivery, competitive prices,
setup as well as 2D matrix and linear CPSERIES, SITEX and GO-SCAN, have and a commitment to 100% customer
probes simultaneously. It has one of the permitted safe, accurate, and easy testing for satisfaction. Coast to coast, TED is one
highest voltage outputs on the market and countless inspections around the globe. complete source for all your NDT needs.
has an integrated motor control driver unit Regardless of your application and budget,
on board. TD’s other dual technique product you can rest assured that we will find the right
is the HandyScan RX 32:64PR with onboard X-ray product to fit your needs. From pipeline
data analysis and reporting tools. Both inspections to shipbuilding projects, to
instruments operate from the same military applications, to aerospace
operational software. In addition to our innovations…Teledyne ICM will always provide Testex Inc.
multipurpose portable products, we also the lightest and most robust portable X-Ray Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
offer a wide range of integrated custom solutions out there. Since making your life Booth 232
solutions used for those applications where the easiest possible is our top priority, we TesTex will be displaying a breakthrough for
a portable system would be impractical, make a point in developing inspection inspecting piping corrosion under insulation
such as underwater inspections using solutions that exceed your expectations in (CUI). The new technology—the off surface
remotely operated vehicles. TD also design, power, and accuracy. As we want to electromagnetic technique, designed to
provides scanners, probes, and accessories make sure that our products can be serviced detect CUI and welds—will be the highlight
at competitive prices. Whether the need is anywhere in record time, we are constantly at the ASNT Annual Conference. TesTex is a
in aerospace, manufacturing, mining, oil growing our after-sales service network. Now world leader in electromagnetic NDT. We
and gas, power generation, or transport, we with 10 officially licensed after-sales service continually define the state-of-the-art for
have a solution for your advanced centers scattered around the world, including testing of ferrous and nonferrous materials
ultrasonic needs. Come and spend some two locations in the United States, you can be and structures through applied research
time with us at Booth 741 to gather a better sure to always receive a five-star service… and development, using techniques that
understanding of our ToFD and phased wherever you are. include low-frequency electromagnetic,
array solutions. Please visit us at remote field electromagnetic, eddy current,
technologydesign.com or contact us at and balanced field electromagnetic
tdsales@technologydesign.com. techniques; ultrasonics; internal rotating
inspection systems (IRIS); and the mag-
wave electromagnetic technique. Using the
latest in digital electronic technologies, we
Test Equipment Distributors LLC design, build, and sell NDT systems and
Troy, Michigan provide NDT inspection services and program
Booth 429 management. With offices across the globe,
Test Equipment Distributors LLC (TED) has TesTex has the global reach to serve you
been in the business of supplying NDT quickly and efficiently. To learn more about
equipment and supplies for over 45 years. TesTex and our unique capabilities, please call
TED has served the equipment and supply (412) 798-8990 or visit our website at
needs of NDT professionals in diverse testex-ndt.com.
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Testia than 10 years and developed in that meant resolution was often degraded
Toulouse, France collaboration with major industrial partners compared with direct-conversion FPDs.
Booth 647 in the aerospace, automotive, and TORAY succeeded in improving the
Testia is an AIRBUS company with over 25 consumer goods industries, Avizo allows detectors’ spatial resolution—and resolved
years of experience in aerospace NDT, users to visualize, analyze, measure, and the challenge. In order to improve spatial
quality inspections, and training. For the inspect parts and materials acquired by resolution, scintillating material was
past 10 years, the company has been X-ray computed tomography, radiography, pixelated to limit light spreading while
expanding worldwide with subsidiaries in or microscopy systems. Avizo provides a allowing for enlarged detector sizes. Today,
Europe, North America, and Asia. Thanks to comprehensive set of tools addressing the TORAY continues to meet new challenges,
its global presence, Testia can provide whole research-to-production cycle: from solving problems and providing solutions
worldwide services and a global solution to materials research in off-line labs to for modern needs—and we will keep
the industry needs. With a unique range of automated quality control in production developing more innovative and high-
NDT products and services, Testia is the environments. With Avizo software, reduce quality materials, because we believe
end-to-end aircraft structure inspection your design cycle, inspection times, and “Materials can change our lives.”
provider. It offers a broad range of NDT and meet higher-level quality standards at a
quality inspection equipment for quick and lower cost. Find out more at Trikon Technologies/Nexus
efficient analysis of structures, components, thermofisher.com/amira-avizo. Metrology
and assembly. TESTIA also trains and Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada
qualifies personnel in all NDT methods, at Booth 542
all qualification levels, as well as provides For over a quarter century, our team has
inspections, consultancy, and engineering harnessed globally innovative and emerging
services. We inspect, we train, we develop, NDT technologies. Matching the right
we advise. technology to the application can be
TORAY Industries America Inc. challenging and time consuming. By
New York, New York
Thermal Wave Imaging Inc. harnessing our knowledgeable and
Booth 332 experienced technical team, we can provide
Ferndale, Michigan
TORAY showcases carbon fiber reinforced you with the power to make timely and
Booth 522
plastics (CFRP), which offer high X-ray cost-effective decisions.
Thermal Wave Imaging is a leading
transmission and strength, plus a
innovator and provider of state-of-the-art
scintillator with increased resolution. TORAY
thermographic NDT solutions ranging from Turner Specialty Services LLC
has been a leading supplier of carbon fibers
low-cost portable systems for field Baton Rouge, Louisiana
in the world for nearly 50 years, as well as a
applications to highly sophisticated Booth 207
manufacturer of other fibers and textiles,
automated inspection equipment for Turner Speciality Services (TSS) LLC is the
plastics and films, IT-related products, and
manufacturing quality assurance. Our inspection and NDE group of Turner
environmental engineering and life science
commercial systems, custom turnkey Industries and has grown to nine office
technologies. In the 1980s, TORAY began
solutions, and testing and evaluation locations throughout the Gulf Coast,
offering CFRP composite parts for X-ray
services are designed to meet critical needs employing more than 600 full-time NDE
products. TORAY is an optimum partner who
of aerospace, power generation, and technicians and inspectors. We are
can help achieve customer requirements in
automotive original equipment uncompromisingly committed to integrity
CFRP composite parts for various X-ray
manufacturers and suppliers. For more and safety with more than 7.4 million man
products while also offering a variety of new
information, please visit us at hours spanning 91 months since our last
molding and processing methods. Because
thermalwave.com. recordable. Many of our working
modern X-ray equipment requires a
relationships with existing clients have had
reduction in both weight and thickness,
zero recordable injuries since inception,
TORAY has vertically integrated R&D and its
spanning decades. Turner can provide more
manufacturing chain, from fibers to finished
services than any other company serving
products, to meet the industry’s ever
the heavy industrial market by
advancing needs. TORAY proprietary
Thermo Fisher Scientific consolidating NDE along with any of our
technology has also led to an innovative
Houston, Texas additional services. TSS is a clear leader in
scintillator panel. Indirect conversion flat
Booth 422 the digital transformation, having recently
panel detectors (FPDs) are used in many
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the provider of joined forces with Inductosense. TSS and
fields, but a common complaint has been
Thermo Scientific™ Avizo™ software for Inductosense hope to lower the cost of
that light spreading inside the scintillator
industrial inspection, a 2D/3D digital ownership to our partners by reducing the
causes crosstalk to adjacent a-Si
inspection and materials analysis software. amount of unnecessary inspection,
photodiode pixels. For traditional models,
Integrating expertise acquired over more providing the best solution to corrosion
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monitoring, and advancing inspection solve unique tasks that our customers UniWest
technology through innovation. For more require from us. One of the latest Pasco, Washington
information please contact Lance Wiebeck developments that we should particularly Booth 711
(lwiebeck@turner-industries.com) or Sean mention is the wireless mobile time of flight UniWest is a leader in eddy current and
Stanford (sstanford@turner-industries.com). diffraction system for testing welded joints, ultrasonic testing applications, engineering,
Please visit us at turner-industries.com or the “TOFD Man,” and the latest version of and product development. Our customers’
stop by our booth. the ETS2-77, an eddy current single-rail problems—and our ability to solve them—
flaw detector. OKOndt Group has been an are what set us apart from our competition.
ULSO Tech Co. Ltd. active member of ASNT, ICNDT, and EFNDT UniWest provides critical solutions and
Xing Tai He Bei, China for many years. The Group holds annual products for complex inspection problems.
Booth 448 conferences on NDT for the CIS and Baltic Our team of engineers listens and learns
Hebei Aosuo Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. region and traditionally participates in all about the challenges you face, then
(ULSO) is a high-tech enterprise specializing relevant exhibitions and conferences on NDT. researches, tests, and determines the right
in the research, development, design, solution for your specific inspection
manufacture, and sale of ultrasonic demands. We work with you to implement
transducers (probes). The company is these solutions with the right product in
headquartered in Xingtai District, Hebei place so you can move forward quickly and
Province, and is located in the Beijing- confidently. We provide reliable, robust NDT
Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. In the instruments and systems for manufacturers,
Bohai Bay Economic Zone, Shanghai has a research and development laboratories,
research and development center: Aosheng Ultran Group and for use in the field. We serve diverse
(Shanghai) Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. State College, Pennsylvania industries that include power generation,
Booth 752 aerospace, automotive, primary metals,
The Ultran Group, Inc. (Ultran) is a world- heavy manufacturing, and other markets.
leading supplier of ultrasonic transducers
and systems for NDT applications.
Recognized as the inventor of modern
noncontact and air-coupled ultrasound,
Ultracon-Service LLC Ultran provides noncontact transducers
Kiev, Ukraine from 30 kHz to 5 MHz and contact and
Booth 643 immersion transducers from 30 kHz to
Ultracon-Service LLC is a manufacturer of 10 MHz. Ultran’s U710x ultrasonic analysis USA Borescopes
NDT equipment with more than 25 years of system is a turnkey inspection solution Clarksville, Tennessee
production experience. Together with the optimized for noncontact analysis from Booth 813
industrial company PRP LLC, Scientific & 30 kHz to 6.25 MHz in through- USA Borescopes is a global supplier of
Research Institute for NDT (UkrNINK), transmission, pitch-catch, and pulse-echo world-class remote visual inspection
Personnel Training Academy, and Personnel modes. Designed for online or benchtop equipment. We offer a wide selection of
Certification Body and Service Center, it is a uses, Ultran’s U710x offers faster, quieter borescopes and videoscope systems that
part of the OKOndt Group, which represents scanning capability and high throughput are designed for today’s quality and
portable devices and automated systems with single and multichannel scanning. inspection professionals. Our borescopes
for NDT of its own design and manufacture In recent years, Ultran has deployed its are perfect for your quality inspections,
in the US market. Our equipment has been multichannel noncontact ultrasound locating foreign object debris and
successfully used for many years in the systems and transducers for large-scale inspecting turbine blades, welds, and other
railway, aviation, metallurgical, machine- production quality control, including space hard-to-see places. All of our portable
building, pipe-rolling, oil and gas, and and aircraft, piece-part ceramics and videoscopes come standard with color
electric power industry in more than composites, and in-line inspection of screens, image capture, and video
40 countries, not least thanks to our carbon fiber prepreg. Please visit recording capabilities. We offer micro
international partners. We manufacture ultrangroup.com for further information or fiberscopes systems as small as 0.37 mm
equipment for carrying out ultrasonic, eddy contact us at info@ultrangroup.com. for those delicate inspections. In addition,
current, electromagnetic-acoustic, and we can perform borescope repairs on any
magnetic particle methods of NDT as well make or model borescope with free repair
as related equipment (probes and estimates. All work is guaranteed to meet
calibration blocks). In addition to the OEM standards.
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VeriPhase Inc. and better records can be kept. More
Birmingham, Alabama phased array inspection means a safer and
Booth 206 more productive world. We also believe that
VeriPhase Inc. is a phased array data obtaining quality phased array probes can
verification and software solution provider. be more affordable and accessible than is
J. Mark Davis founded VeriPhase to provide currently being supplied in today’s market.
quality assurance expertise to companies In 2018, Vermon NDT is introducing a line of
Varex Imaging Corp. performing and receiving phased array standard phased array probes. In 2019, the
Salt Lake City, Utah ultrasound (PAUT) and time of flight standard line will continue to expand and
Booth 744 diffraction (TOFD) inspection services. probes for scanner applications will be
Varex Imaging Corp. is a leading innovator, A US-based and owned company, VeriPhase introduced. In 2020, capabilities for quick
designer, and manufacturer of X-ray provides access to its team of ASNT Level III turnaround of quality custom PAUT probes
imaging components, which include tubes, certified phased array and TOFD experts who will be developed. Visit our web store at
digital flat panel detectors, and other have in-depth knowledge in a wide range of pautprobes.com.
image-processing solutions, which are key industries, applications, and materials.
components of X-ray imaging systems. With Consultation services include data and VFG Leasing & Finance
a 65+ year history of successful innovation, documentation review, program development, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Varex’s components are used in medical and procedure/examiner qualifications. In Booth 312
imaging as well as in industrial and security 2018, Automated Detection Technology™ Vision Financial Group Inc. (VFG) is an
imaging applications. Global OEM (ADT) software was created by VeriPhase to equipment leasing and finance company.
manufacturers of X-ray imaging systems use speed up and assist the analysis of encoded We provide funding for acquiring most
the company’s X-ray sources, digital PAUT weld data. ADT processes encoded types of capital equipment and software.
detectors, connecting devices, and imaging phased array weld data and provides a More often than not, we can include soft
software as components in their systems to focused analysis and quick disposition costs such as delivery, installation, and
detect, diagnose, and protect. Varex environment to efficiently go through the training into a VFG lease. We will consider
employs approximately 1800 people auto-populated results. ADT is designed to financing used equipment as well as funding
located at manufacturing and service center eliminate the analysis bottleneck and ensure vendor-required progress payments.
sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. high-quality phased array data. For more
For more information about Varex, visit information, please visit veriphase.net or Vidisco Ltd.
vareximaging.com. contact our offices at (205) 981-6474. Or Yehuda, Israel
Booth 336
Vermon NDT For almost 30 years, Vidisco has been
Walhalla, South Carolina revolutionizing the portable X-ray industry,
Booth 1009 being the first company to offer a PC-based,
Vermon NDT develops, manufactures, and digital X-ray system packed in a single
sells phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) rugged case. Today, Vidisco’s portable
probes for the NDT industry in the United inspection X-ray systems are sold in over
Vector NDT Training States. Its mission is to promote improved
Hattingen NRW, Germany flaw detection by making high-quality PAUT
Booth 427 probes and accessories that are affordable
Vector NDT Training: Better well trained. and easy to obtain. A high-quality product
Training for ISO 9712 Level 1, 2, and 3 for means that it will perform its application
RT, UT, MT, PT, VT, ET, LT, and IR/TT in the well and be reliable. At Vermon NDT we
United States. Examination and ISO 17024 believe that PAUT is more effective than
accredited certification by sectorcert®. conventional ultrasonic flaw detection in
Vector NDT Training offers customized in- most applications because more volume
house courses for four or more participants. can be inspected, fewer flaws are missed,
Proven training hours of previous employer- there is a better understanding of the flaw,
75 countries and deployed in every kind of
based qualifications might be partially
terrain and weather conditions, for a variety
recognized. Best to ask us at the 2018
of applications such as weld quality,
ASNT Annual Conference in Houston. Meet
aerospace, oil and gas, power generation,
us at Booth 427, or contact us by email at
and arts. Among Vidisco’s innovative
info@vector-ndt-training.com
solutions you can find a 50 μm panel with a
Class B nSNR for dedicated applications
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and a smart control and data processing VisiConsult X-Ray Systems & China to provide a true global level of
software, VEO Pro. VEO Pro enables Solutions GmbH service. We apply our radioscopic digital
capturing with a single click and provides Stockelsdorf, Germany imaging expertise to government agencies
one-touch filters for image enhancement Booth 833 and NDT markets throughout the world. VJT
alongside features that are tailored to the VisiConsult is a family-owned company develops and manufactures a complete line
requirements of the various markets such located in Northern Germany and a leading of automated, manual, and turnkey X-ray
as the Boeing standard for aerospace, specialist for customized X-ray inspection inspection systems. Primary market sectors
making sure the work process is precise systems. VisiConsult Americas has been include: automotive, aerospace, electronics,
and effective. VEO Pro allows expanding the located in Atlanta since 2016 and is remediation, nuclear, oil and gas, and pipe
workstation by remote operation from equipped with a demo and application and weld applications. VJT X-ray inspection
almost any smartphone or tablet, at a system at Georgia Tech. Our main focus is systems are used for radioscopic inspection
distance of up to 50 m from the main digital radiography cabinets, computed of products and assemblies to detect
workstation. Contact us to explore more of tomography, automated defect recognition, defects or foreign matter, reducing cost and
Vidisco’s solutions at ndt@vidisco.com or and system upgrades (retrofits). The goal of time while increasing quality and safety. VJT
vidisco.com. the company is to solve our customers’ delivers a competitive advantage over other
inspection problems with tailored, companies through our network of global
customized solutions. More than 25 years offices. In the 21st century, VJT continues to
of expertise in digital X-ray technology and nurture emerging technologies and provide
image enhancement for a broad variety of innovative solutions for global customers.
industries, combined with experienced Visit vjt.com or call (631) 589-8800 for
engineers, results in solutions that more information.
constantly set new industry standards. With
Virtual Media Integration
over 80 employees globally and service
Pensacola, Florida
staff in the United States, we are ready to
Booth 235
serve our customers in all industries.
Virtual Media Integration (VMI) is one of the
Discover the invisible!
largest suppliers of computerized
radiography (CR) equipment for NDT in
North America. Currently VMI supports both viZaar Industrial Imaging Volume Graphics Inc.
the military as well as the commercial Gibsonia, Pennsylvania Charlotte, North Carolina
sectors of business with over 20 years of Booth 435 Booth 536
experience in the NDT market. VMI is the viZaar Industrial Imaging provides the Volume Graphics enables companies to
number one supplier for CR for the US Navy ultimate in German engineering for remote make better products. How? By developing
worldwide. VMI is a premier manufacturer visual inspection applications. Since 1996 leading software for the analysis and
and integrator of CR systems, digital viZaar has delivered unique and genuinely visualization of industrial 3D computed
radiography (DR) systems, and film digitizer innovative products and inspection tomography (CT) data, which allows our
systems, all running off VMI’s proprietary solutions to industry. Our products include customers to find out as much about their
Starrview software platform, which has the VUCAM® XO video borescope, products as possible—and nondestructively
been developed and produced by VMI VUMAN® videoprobe system, specialized at that. Industrial CT provides the basis for
specifically to meet the challenging needs mini heat exchanger/steam generator this, as CT scans reveal every aspect of a
of the NDT field. VMI’s team of experienced inspection cameras, tank and vessel component. Leading industrial companies
technicians and radiographers allows us to cameras, and 360° autofocus dual sensor around the world use VGSTUDIO MAX to
provide the highest level of support to our pipe inspection cameras. easily and comprehensively check their
customers in markets including oil and gas, products in research, production, and
nuclear, military, aerospace, automotive, VJ Technologies Inc. quality assurance. With the Volume
casting, manufacturing, and more. We can Bohemia, New York Graphics product family, comprising
fill any DR application with the proper Booth 1003 VGSTUDIO MAX, VGSTUDIO, VGMETROLOGY,
solution and support any customer so that VJ Technologies engineers, designs, and VGinLINE, and myVGL, all kinds of analyses
they can meet the highest standards of manufactures world-class imaging software and visualizations can be carried out
digital imaging. and hardware products, solutions, and directly on CT data. It is not necessary to
services for industry, academy, and convert the voxel data into other formats.
government. Founded in 1987, VJT is a The ability to display and analyze both
leading global provider of X-ray inspection voxel and polygon data in a single
solutions with locations in the United application is what makes Volume Graphics
States, United Kingdom, France, India, and software so special. Volume Graphics has

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(Volume Graphics Inc., cont.)
extensive know-how in the area of system. The equipment can be used for control. Product lines include single energy,
visualization, interpretation, and analysis of long periods of time at temperatures up to dual energy, TDI, and high-energy
3D data. Profit from our expertise by 225 °C (437 °F) and duty-cycled at 320 °C detectors. Resolution options range from
making use of our services: software (608 °F). Typical use for this system is at 0.050 mm, 0.1 mm, 0.2 mm, 0.4 mm,
training and workshops; consulting in the refineries, where the need is for inspections 0.8 mm, to 1.6 mm. “L” and “U”
areas of CT and 3D data analysis; custom on components such as piping and vessels configurations are available. X-Scan Imaging
development projects; creation of stunning while in service. WesDyne also features the also supplies sensor boards with these
animations based on your CT data sets; and Ares UT/scanner system. It incorporates the resolutions for OEM detector manufacturers
VGPROJECT SDK and VGRECO for our OEM Advanced Mercury Ultrasonic Hardware with with the 0.1 mm/0.2 mm and 0.4 mm/
partners. Since 1997, Volume Graphics has motion control built into the scanner. The 0.8 mm LDAs being selectable within one
been developing software for industrial CT system can be configured with up to four part number. TDI configurations offer
at our company headquarters in Heidelberg, ultrasonic boards in a small, highly portable increased speed and/or decreased X-ray
Germany. Employees in offices in the United configuration. WesDyne is a leading source requirements by integrating the
States (Charlotte, North Carolina), Japan supplier of mechanized nondestructive signal over multiple line stages. With
(Nagoya), China (Beijing), and Singapore examination (NDE) products for a wide cutting-edge technologies enabling higher
offer sales and support to customers and range of inspection needs worldwide, image quality, faster inspection, and lower
partners in their respective regions. providing turnkey and specialized solutions. X-ray exposures, X-Scan Imaging has helped
customers excel as providers of X-ray
Warren Associates Willick Engineering Co. Inc. inspection systems. Our team of technical
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Santa Fe Springs, California specialists can assist with design
Booth 317 Booth 1002 requirements as well as providing sample
For 72 years, Warren Select™, Hexalon Willick Engineering Co. Inc. continuously testing in our applications laboratory.
Flex™, and Hexalon Ultra™ remain the endeavors to be the most respected
leading intensifying screens specified supplier of NDT X-ray equipment in the
throughout the world. WarrenNDT screens United States. Willick Engineering
reduce film exposure time, increase manufactures X-ray systems while carefully
sensitivity three fold, offer greater flexibility balancing quality, reliability, and cost, never
for tighter film contact, and create optimum jeopardizing quality and reliability. We
sharpness and accuracy with high source utilize the latest advances in technology
absorption, reducing scatter. Both Hexalon and develop new creative methods and XARION Laser Acoustics GmbH
Flex and Hexalon Ultra are offered with systems for leading-edge X-ray applications Vienna, Austria
Enviroseal™ peel-off protective covering, while maintaining the same old-fashioned, Booth 446
developed by WarrenNDT, while providing high level of one-on-one customer service The story of XARION Laser Acoustics starts
protection from damage and oxidation while we have been known for since 1965. with a unique approach to detecting sound
not affecting the intensification properties. waves: by measuring how they affect the
Warren Select screens are available in speed of light! The membrane-free optical
copper, stainless steel, tantalum, and iridium microphone technology is being used
in addition to lead. Most importantly, all commercially in two fields of application
WarrenNDT products are artifact-free, today: industrial process control and NDT of
guaranteed! WarrenNDT flexible and rigid film materials. In both applications, the extremely
holders are considered the universal broad air-coupled acoustic sensing range of
standard for NDT and are available in several 1 MHz is key. In the nondestructive material
X-Scan Imaging Corp. testing setup, a short laser pulse is directed
varieties, standard and custom sizes, and San Jose, California
with and without lead. WarrenNDT and our on the specimen, which for example could
Booth 709
worldwide dealer network are committed to be a welded steel plate or a carbon fiber
Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, X-Scan
servicing every X-ray need. composite component. The optical
Imaging is a leading designer and
microphone can pick up the acoustic
manufacturer of high-performance CMOS
emission radiated into the adjacent air and
WesDyne AMDATA and CCD linear (photo) diode arrays (LDA)
create an ultrasound image of the internal
Windsor, Connecticut and time-delay-integration (TDI) imaging
defects in the sample. Opposed to other
Booth 927 detectors designed for X-ray imaging and
ultrasound technologies, no contact fluid is
WesDyne has provided advanced inspection applications. X-Scan Imaging
required for this measurement. Both the
nondestructive products and development products are used for continuous scanning
XARION sensor and LUS-setup will be
of specialized inspection methods for over in diverse markets such as NDT for energy
exhibited at Booth 446 at the ASNT Annual
30 years. One of our highlights at our and transportation infrastructure, homeland
Conference.
booth will be the display of WesDyne’s security, food safety, and electronics quality
high-temperature automated scanning
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Optoelectronic Technology showcasing our newest innovations
Xi’an, China; Silicon Valley, California designed to deliver an inspection
Booth 323 advantage. The new ultra-intelligent
Xi’an Broad Dimension Optoelectronic TOPAZ®64 is a fully integrated, portable
Technology (XBD) is a leader in the 64 channel PAUT device with full matrix
development and innovation of cesium YXLON Comet Technologies capture and total focusing method
iodide (CsI/Tl) based scintillation solutions Hudson, Ohio; San Jose, California capabilities for your most challenging
addressing a diverse range of application Booth 318 applications. The new truly affordable
areas. XBD designs and configures its own YXLON is a leading technology provider of MIZ®-21C eddy current instrument is the
equipment and manufacturing process, industrial X-ray and computed tomography most advanced mobile handheld device
allowing for coating multiple substrate sizes (CT) systems for nondestructive parts with surface array capabilities, so you can
up to 4343 cm in a single run and catering inspection. Whether systems are stationary, take the power of surface array to new
the scintillator performance recipe to the operated manually, semiautomatically, or areas. Visit zetec.com.
appropriate sensor type or application area. on a fully automatic scale, we have the right
XBD further improves robust quality solution to match nearly every application. Zhengzhou Runde Dellonscope Co.
standards with its proprietary For us, the highest priority is placed on Ltd.
reflection/protection film coupled with a quality: the quality of our inspection Zhengzhou, China
unique encapsulation process to combat systems and, as a result, the quality of your Booth 421
moisture ingression and reduce potential products. You benefit from our years of Zhengzhou Runde Dellonscope Co. Ltd. is a
damage out in the field. The XBD process experience in innovation that have enabled manufacturer and developer for NDT in
translates into a customized scintillator us to gain the confidence and trust of the China, founded in 2006 with distributors all
solution with the right balance of cost, most renowned manufacturers in the over the world. “DELLON” is already a well-
performance, and quality for our customers. automotive industry, aviation and known international brand. We have
Whether it be direct deposition onto an a-Si aerospace, electronics, and other industrial ISO9001:2000 certification, as well as CE
TFT type sensor or an indirect scintillator sectors. YXLON is a division of Comet and RoHS, and offer service after sales,
substrate to be coupled with your Technologies USA Inc. Visit us at yxlon.com, including immediate repairs in one to three
CMOS/CCD sensor, we provide the right and download your free Industrial CT weeks, and a 12-month warranty at no
solution for your detector type. Handbook at https://info.yxlon.com/blog/ charge. OEM/ODM/OBM orders are
yxlon-publishes-new-computed-tomography welcome. Our hope is to set up long
Xiamen Miton Optronics Co. -ct-handbook. business relationships with overseas
Xiamen, China partners. wx
Booth 212 Zetec Inc.
Miton Optronics was founded in 2017 by Snoqualmie, Washington
experts in ceramic scintillator development Booth 902
and manufacturing. The company has Zetec is a global leader in NDT solutions.
world-class R&D teams and owns world- We serve as a single source for high-
leading manufacturing systems and the performance inspection solutions in eddy
latest ceramic scintillator processing current and ultrasonic technologies. For
technology. The company believes in nearly 50 years, we’ve advanced NDT
honesty, customer first, and quality first. standards and science, providing new
This philosophy is applied to making high- insight and control through solutions that
quality products that meet the needs of our protect our customers’ assets. By
customers. The company is committed to integrating design and engineering with our
becoming the world’s leading scintillator manufacturing, Zetec solutions optimize
array supplier. productivity and safety and can lower total

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YXLON Enters Cooperation with the more, the digital objects can be made ultrasonic testing (UT) services. The
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin available to scientists throughout the majority of TACTIC’s standard products are
As part of a newly concluded cooperation entire world. This exchange between designed to inspect cylindrical materials,
agreement, Yxlon has provided the researchers across the globe not only such as tubes, pipes, bars, and billets;
Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of enables new and innovative research however, the company has also provided
Natural History) in Berlin with the high- methods but also safeguards preservation UT equipment to inspect hexagonal and
resolution computed tomography system and archiving for the future. square billets. LTI currently runs seven
YXLON FF35 CT. The system will run in the The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has TACTIC immersion UT inspection systems
Hall of Microscopes behind the famous been utilizing this technology for many under one roof on two work shifts and is
Tristan Room. The flood of visitors who years and has gained deep insights into one of the company’s largest customers.
come to see Tristan, the first of two the opportunities and challenges associ-
original Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons in ated with computed tomography. The
Europe, can now look forward to the next problem of adequate contrasting occurs,
attraction, where they can view original especially when it comes to the resolution
exhibits—such as skull and body skeletons of structures in low-contrast soft tissue
of mammals, fossil specimens from such as organs, muscles, and fat cells. A
different rock layers with inclusions and central task of the Museum für Naturkunde
highly diverse preservation techniques, Berlin will be to find solutions and process
optimizations using contrast media, while
assisting Yxlon with the corresponding
technical refinement of the computed
tomography system and its software. Metal
artifacts resulting from the nature of their From left: Fred Beck, president of TACTIC,
and Mike McVaugh, president and CEO of LTI.
preparation (for example, as occurring with
needled insects) are also some of the
challenges that Yxlon and the museum will
tackle in their cooperation, with the joint TACTIC will stay at its current location
goal of specially optimizing computed and will operate as a subsidiary of LTI. The
tomography for the field of life sciences, company’s president, Fred Beck, and the
Yxlon has provided the high-resolution while ensuring they are ideally prepared other employees will remain in their
computed tomography system, YXLON FF35 for the requirements of digital archiving of positions. Quoting and sales of all
CT, to the Museum of Natural History in
biological specimens. products and services will continue to be
Berlin.
handled by the New Jersey facility, with the
Laboratory Testing Inc. Acquires exception of ultrasonic testing services,
and drilling samples with mineral TAC Technical Instrument Corp. of which will be consolidated into LTI’s NDT
particles—and experience live how New Jersey department.
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Technical Publication S9074-AQ-GIB-
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010/248, Requirements for Welding and
of standards development. This month’s installment focuses on current work in
Brazing Procedure and Performance
American National Standards and ISO Draft International Standards.
Qualification.
l BSR/AWS-NAVSEA B2.1-1/8-323-201X,
Standard Welding Procedure
Specification for Naval Applications
American National Draft Standards published in the past, are listed in the (SWPS-N) for Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
annexes for reference. of Carbon Steel (S-1) to Austenitic
Project Initiation l BSR/ASME B40.100-201x, Pressure Stainless Steel (S-8), 1/8 inch [3 mm]
ANSI procedures require notification by Gauges and Gauge Attachments. This is through 1-1/2 inch [38 mm] Thick, MIL-
ANSI-accredited standards developers of a revision of ANSI/ASME B40.100-2013. 309, ER309L, in the As-Welded
the initiation and scope of activities This standard addresses Pressure Condition, Primarily Pipe for Naval
expected to result in new or revised Indicating Dial Type - Elastic Element Applications. This is a new standard.
American National Standards. The Gauges, Diaphragm Seals, Snubbers, This standard contains the essential
following is a list of proposed actions and Pressure Limiter Valves, and Pressure welding variables for carbon steel to
new standards that have been received Digital Indicating Gauges. These indi- austenitic stainless steel in the
recently from accredited standards devel- vidual standards provide terminology thickness range of 1/8 in. (3 mm)
opers. To view information about addi- and definitions, dimensions, safety, through 1-1/2 in. (38 mm), using
tional standards for which a project construction and installation issues, manual gas tungsten arc welding. It
initiation notification has been submitted, test procedures, and general recom- cites the base metals and operating
and to search approved American National mendations. conditions necessary to make the
Standards, please visit nssn.org, which is a l BSR/AWS B2.1-1/8-324-201X, Standard weldment, the filler metal specifica-
database of standards information. Note Welding Procedure Specification for tions, and joint designs for groove
that this database is not exhaustive. Naval Applications (SWPS-N) for and fillet welds. This SWPS-N was
l BSR ASA S1.42-201x, Design Response Shielded Metal Arc Welding of Carbon developed primarily for naval
of Weighting Networks for Acoustical Steel (S-1) to Austenitic Stainless Steel applications that require performance
Measurements. This is a revision of (S -8), 1/8 inch [3 mm] through to NAVSEA Technical Publication
ANSI ASA S1.42-2001 (R2016). Provides 1-1/2 inch [38 mm] Thick, MIL-309-XX, S9074-AQ-GIB-010/248, Requirements
design criteria for both frequency- MIL-309L-XX, in the As-Welded for Welding and Brazing Procedure and
domain response (amplitude and Condition, Primarily Pipe for Naval Performance Qualification.
phase) and time-domain of A- and Applications. This is a new standard. l BSR/AWS-NAVSEA B2.1-1/8-325-201x,
C-weighting networks used in acousti- This standard contains the essential Standard Welding Procedure
cally related measurements. The poles welding variables for carbon steel to Specification for Naval Applications
and zeros for each weighting network austenitic stainless steel in the (SWPS-N) for Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
are given, along with equations for thickness range of 1/8 in. Followed by Shielded Metal Arc Welding
computing the amplitude and phase (3 mm) through 1-1/2 in. (38 mm), of Carbon Steel (S -1) to Austenitic
responses as functions of frequency using manual shielded metal arc Stainless Steel (S-8), 1/8 inch [3 mm]
and impulse and step responses as welding. It cites the base metals and through 1-1/2 inch [38 mm] Thick, MIL-
functions of time. Other known operating conditions necessary to make 309/ER309L and MIL-309-XX/MIL-309L-
weighting networks that had been stan- the weldment, the filler metal specifica- XX, in the As-Welded Condition,
dardized, such as the B-, D-, and tions, and joint designs for groove and Primarily Pipe for Naval Applications.
E-weightings, or weightings that were fillet welds. This SWPS-N was developed This is a new standard. This standard
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for carbon steel to austenitic stainless used in piping systems for piping that ments cover repair welding of existing
steel in the thickness range of 1/8 in. may be subject to brittle failure due to hardware. A commentary for the specifi-
(3 mm) through 1-1/2 in. (38 mm), low-temperature service conditions. cation is included.
using manual gas tungsten arc welding l BSR/AWS D17.1/D17.1M-201x-AMD2,
followed by shielded metal arc welding. Specification for Fusion Welding for Call for Comment on Proposals Listed
It cites the base metals and operating Aerospace Applications. This is a The public comment period has passed for
conditions necessary to make the revision and redesignation of ANSI/AWS the following draft American National
weldment, the filler metal specifica- D17.1/D17.1M-2017-AMD1. This speci- Standards, which are currently in review.
tions, and joint designs for groove and fication provides the general welding l BSR/SCTE 13-201x, Dielectric Air Leak
fillet welds. This SWPS-N was developed requirements for welding aircraft and Test Method For Trunk, Feeder and
primarily for naval applications that space hardware. It includes but is not Distribution Coaxial Cable. This is a
require performance to NAVSEA limited to the fusion welding of revision of ANSI/SCTE 13-2011. The
Technical Publication S9074-AQ-GIB - aluminum-based, nickel-based, iron- purpose of this test is to detect voids in
010/248, Requirements for Welding and based, cobalt-based, magnesium-based, the dielectric and the bond between the
Brazing Procedure and Performance and titanium-based alloys using electric- dielectric and the center conductor.
Qualification. arc and high-energy-beam processes. l BSR/AWS G2.3M/G2.3-201x, Guide for
l BSR/ASME B31T-201x, Standard There are requirements for welding the Joining of Solid Solution Austenitic
Toughness Requirements for Piping. This design, personnel and procedure qualifi- Stainless Steels. This is a revision of
is a revision of ANSI/ASME B31T-2015. cation, inspection, and acceptance ANSI/AWS G2.3M/G2.3-2012. This
This standard provides requirements for criteria for aerospace, support, and guide presents a description of solid

solution austenitic stainless steels and l BSR/AWS J1.3M/J1.3-201x, Specification l ISO/DIS 13679, Petroleum and natural
the processes and procedures that can for Materials Used in Resistance gas industries - Procedures for testing
be used for the joining of these Welding Applications. This is a new casing and tubing connections.
materials. This standard discusses the standard. This standard specifies l ISO/DIS 11513, Gas cylinders -
welding processes and welding parame- essential properties of materials used Refillable welded steel cylinders
ters, qualifications, inspection and for resistance welding electrodes and containing materials for sub-atmos-
repair methods, cleaning, and safety related components, the common appli- pheric gas packaging (excluding
considerations. cations of these materials, and methods acetylene) - Design, construction,
l BSR/ASME BPVC Section V-201x, of conformance verification. testing, use and periodic inspection.
Nondestructive Examination. This is a l ISO/DIS 9090, Gas tightness of
revision of ANSI/ASME BPVC Section V- ISO Draft International Standards equipment for gas welding and allied
2017. Section V of the ASME Boiler & The following are standards that the processes.
Pressure Vessel Code contains require- International Organization for l ISO/DIS 12718, Non-destructive testing -
ments and methods for nondestructive Standardization (ISO) is considering for Eddy current testing – Vocabulary.
examination (NDE), which are refer- approval. The proposals have received l ISO/DIS 15609-1, Specification and
enced and required by other sections of substantial support within the technical qualification of welding procedures for
the code. These NDE methods are committee that developed them and are metallic materials – Welding procedure
intended to detect surface and internal now being circulated to ISO members for specification - Part 1: Arc welding.
imperfections in materials, welds, and comment and vote. Readers interested in l ISO/DIS 11484, Steel products -
fabricated parts and components. The reviewing or commenting on these Employers qualification system of non-
following NDE methods are addressed: standards should order copies from ANSI. destructive testing (NDT) personnel.
radiography, ultrasonics, liquid l ISO/DIS 11484, Steel products - l ISO 15614-1/DAmd1, Specification and
penetrant, magnetic particle, eddy Employers qualification system of non- qualification of welding procedures for
current, visual, leak testing, and destructive testing (NDT) personnel. metallic materials - Welding procedure
acoustic emission. l ISO/DIS 14174, Welding consumables - test - Part 1: Arc and gas welding of
l BSR/AWS D16.6M/D16.6-201x, Fluxes for submerged arc welding and steels and arc welding of nickel and
Specification for Robot Arc Welding electroslag welding – Classification. nickel alloys- Amendment 1.
Training and Testing Cell. This is a new l ISO/DIS 24598, Welding consumables - l ISO/DIS 22232-1, Non-destructive
standard. This document specifies the Solid wire electrodes, tubular cored elec- testing - Characterization and verifica-
recommended design, integration, trodes and electrode-flux combinations tion of ultrasonic test equipment - Part
installation, and use of arc welding for submerged arc welding of creep- 1: Instruments.
systems used to train and certify resisting steels – Classification. l ISO/DIS 22232-2, Non-destructive
operators and technicians under the l ISO/DIS 21432, Non-destructive testing - testing - Characterization and verifica-
AWS Certified Robotic Arc Welding Standard test method for determining tion of ultrasonic test equipment - Part
(CRAW) program. Robotic and automatic residual stresses by neutron diffraction. 2: Probes.
arc welding systems consist of an arc l ISO/DIS 22232-1, Non-destructive l ISO/DIS 22232-3, Non-destructive
welding power source, arc welding testing - Characterization and verifica- testing - Characterization and verifica-
torches and accessories, robot/manipu- tion of ultrasonic test equipment - Part tion of ultrasonic test equipment - Part
lator, shielding gas delivery system, 1: Instruments. 3: Combined equipment.
welding electrode feeding equipment l ISO/DIS 22232-2, Non-destructive l ISO/DIS 19959, Visual examination of
welding circuit, communication control testing - Characterization and verifica- the surface condition of investment
wiring, and system grounding. tion of ultrasonic test equipment - Part castings - Steel, nickel alloys and cobalt
l BSR/ASNT CP-189-201x Addenda, ASNT 2: Probes. alloys.
Standard for Qualification and l ISO/DIS 22232-3, Non-destructive l ISO/DIS 17927-1, Welding for aerospace
Certification of Nondestructive Testing testing - Characterization and verifica- applications - Fusion welding of
Personnel. This is an addendum to tion of ultrasonic test equipment - Part metallic components - Part 1: Process
ANSI/ASNT CP-189-2016. This 3: Combined equipment. specification. wx
addendum will be effective immediately l ISO/DIS 15549, Non-destructive
on approval, and the requirements in testing - Eddy current testing - General
this standard will be included in the principles.
main body of CP-189 during the next
revision.
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ROBERT E. SHANNON
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patents
US 9909953 Another known inspection technique and cost-effective NDT technique is

Method and apparatus for nondestructive utilizes ultrasound vibration at higher needed that accurately determines the
detection of tire anomalies frequencies, usually 1 to 10 MHz in the internal anomalies in a tire casing and
(Q. Shen, G. Bunget, F. Gramling, D. Judd, tire industry. The ultrasonic technique can does so predictably in a variety of produc-
and T. Kurfess)
be used to examine abnormal cord tion environments.
When tires become worn, they may be spacing, belt anomalies, or changes in the This patent describes the use of
restored with new tread bands or tread wall thickness of a tire. Automation of this impact-acoustic and impact-echo tech-
layers during a retreading process. testing procedure is complicated by the niques for tire anomaly detection. Such
Retreading is a restoration or remanufac- need for a coupling medium between the techniques are based upon applying a
turing process that not only extends the transducer and the object’s surface. In local disturbance on a structural surface
service life of the tires, but also is signifi- addition, the ultrasonic technique requires while recording the resulting airborne
cantly less expensive than manufacturing extensive training and experience to sound waves. In an impact-echo
new tires. Since recycling and retreading interpret the data, therefore inhibiting the technique, a disturbance is applied at a
are key for reducing costs and energy application of this inspection technique in point on the surface of a solid while
inherent in the manufacturing of tire high-yield inspection environments. recording the resulting stress waves that
casings, an effective retread necessitates a Shearography, which is widely used for tire have approached a transducer. The basic
tire casing with good structural integrity casing inspection, can detect various types methodology of the impact-echo technique
(that is, without internal anomalies or of anomalies such as voids and delamina- is that the propagation of stress waves can
irregularities). Prior and subsequent to tions in belts and sidewalls. Using be different due to the existence of
retreading of a truck tire casing, a nonde- shearography, a tire is first scanned by a internal anomalies in the structure. Impact-
structive testing (NDT) method may be laser light placed in the center of the tire echo is essentially a contact NDT
used to detect and locate internal casing under normal atmospheric pressure technique, thus requiring careful consider-
anomalies. Such anomalies may include to obtain a baseline photograph. The tire ation of how the transducer approaches
(but are not limited to) cracks, voids, casing then is placed in a vacuum. If there and retracts from the testing surface auto-
delaminated layers, and foreign material. is an irregularity such as an air-filled void, matically, thereby allowing continuous
Numerous attempts have been made the low pressure around the casing causes testing around a tire circumference.
using advanced NDT techniques, and the air trapped in the void to expand. A Impact-acoustic techniques replace the
several types of inspection procedures “stressed” photograph is obtained by contact transducer with an air-coupled
have been employed and commercialized scanning the tire casing under vacuum, transducer, which records the sound
by the tire remanufacturing industry. For and the photograph is compared with the waves generated by the vibration of the
example, industrial radiography with X-ray baseline photograph to produce a fringe neighboring structure excited by an
is a real-time technique for tire inspection. pattern. An internal variance usually impact. The transducers, consisting of one
This inspection technique provides high induces strain concentrations under stress, or more microphones, record the sound
sensitivity to anomalies such as foreign which can cause differences between the waves generated by the vibration of the
materials and porosity as a result of varia- two images and be translated into an neighboring structure excited by a short
tions in radiation intensity of the X-rays anomaly in the fringe pattern. impact. In some cases, noise-cancelling
penetrating through different materials. Shearography therefore correlates internal microphones or phase-arrayed microphone
Smaller bonding irregularities, however, anomalies with the variances in displace- noise-cancelling algorithms can be imple-
may be difficult to detect since the pene- ment gradients. Interpretation of shearo- mented to enhance the quality of the
tration capability of the X-rays is grams often requires a skilled operator, received microphone signals. The
dependent on material density. Further and shearography devices may require propagation of impact-induced transient
inspection procedures are therefore large financial and time expenditures, stress waves in the test object varies
required to investigate those conditions particularly when large batches of tires due to the presence of internal anomalies
that are not detectable by X-rays. require examination. Therefore, a reliable such as disbanding or delaminations.
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Piezoelectric-based transducers measure cally proven to be sensitive to the while providing an integrated index that
the surface displacement response by existence of internal structural cracks. For accurately identifies the anomaly condi-
contact with the test object. In the case of the purpose of applying the impact- tions. Development of a data fusion
impact-acoustic techniques, the material acoustic technique for inspection of tire technique by weighted averaging of the
undergoes very small strains, and thus casing integrity, models are developed for discriminators allows the generation of a
only the initial tangent modulus is simplified tire structures. The models single anomaly index as an indicator of the
relevant. The dynamic impact force signal assume a cubic shape fabricated from integrity of inspected tires.
has been identified as a useful means to rubber compound material without rein- The patent also discloses the use of
characterize the impact response from forcements. The prepared cubic rubber measurements of time domain and
testing on a rubber composite structure. samples are designed to roughly approxi- frequency characteristics as inputs to an
Furthermore, the impact-induced acoustic mate the profile of a sectional tire casing artificial neural network (ANN). As used
signal can be studied in two separate with cracks embedded at the belt edge in herein, an ANN refers generally to one or
stages: (1) initial contact sound due to a shoulder area. more models that are capable of pattern
local deformation at the impact region; Energy-based analysis of the structure recognition, forecasting, and/or data
and (2) ringing sound due to free vibration is another useful approach to understand compression. The ANN is trained using
of the structure. Both parts of the impact the effect of embedded anomalies on the measurements of sample tires with known
sound have been demonstrated as related impact behavior. The differences of the characteristics. Its invention contemplates
to the tire’s structural properties, and can material properties of the two colliding design and fabrication of an automated
be used to determine the existence of the bodies result in energy loss, which is test platform, experimental investigation
structural anomalies. The patent describes dependent upon various properties and algorithm determination, and ANN
an integrated approach by measuring both including (but not limited to) stiffness, analysis including offline database training
impact force and the impact sound, and density, and shape. Based upon the and online sample evaluation. An inte-
analytical modeling explains the relation- modeling of energy loss in the impact grated approach by measuring both
ship between the impact acoustic signals process, it was analytically and experimen- impact force and impact sound also is
and the internal cracks. The sound tally shown that the intensity of sound adopted, and analytical modeling is
pressures monitored by a transducer near excited by flexural vibration after impact employed to represent the relationship
the impact location correspond to the can be used as an indicator of structural between the impact acoustic signals and
movement history of the target. The initial integrity. Significant research based on the internal anomalies. Experimental vali-
stage of the acoustic signal is due to the impact-acoustic techniques is driven by dations are performed on both the rubber
deformation and restitution of the target the fact that the human ear can capture structure solved by the analytical model
within the duration of impact. The rest of the difference in the sound while tapping and the complex tire casings. A description
the acoustic signal is produced by the free or hammering the tested structure. An is given of a novel set of discriminators to
vibration of the structure. The embedded automation of this procedure would make be used in combination with a force trans-
internal anomalies dissipate the energy inspection more efficient, less subjective, ducer. An overall characterization of the
from the resonant modes to other flexural and operator independent. It has also tire as a candidate for being suitable for
modes, which can be observed in the been reported that the feedback from retreading is sought, rather than seeking
frequency domain using frequency vibrating hammers or other tools (after the to localize individual variances. The
analysis such as the fast fourier transform impact) is also relevant to the structural specific orientation of transducers,
(FFT) or other types of analysis. difference. Thus, in some embodiments, including microphone and load cell, and
The patented process employs an one or more microphones sense the sound the selection of discriminator functions are
impact-acoustic technique for the NDT of waves. An impactor made with a load cell a result of extensive experimentation
internal cracks in a rubber composite tip records the vibration feedback as well. aided by finite element modeling. Where
structure, such as that found in a tire. This Based upon comprehensive theoretical conventional impact-acoustic and impact-
approach is an effective and economical analysis of the impact acoustic signals, echo techniques use microphones or
alternative to current NDT techniques for discriminators can be extracted from the accelerometers to detect internal tire
tire casing integrity inspection. It considers impact force signal and the acoustic time- anomalies, the presently disclosed
the impact force signal and the resultant and frequency-domain signal. These invention implements a combination of
acoustic signal as separate aspects of the discriminators may be verified as indica- impactor, accelerometer, microphone and
impact acoustic signals and applies a tors of internal anomalies in both simpli- analysis algorithms to detect a range of
contact dynamics model developed from fied cubic rubber structures and anomaly sizes, types, and locations. w x
Hertz’s impact theory and modified for complicated tire casings. Integration of the
rubber composite materials. This model extracted discriminators helps to mitigate
generates prediction of major impact the deficiencies and noise caused by
dynamics quantities, which are theoreti- relying heavily on a single discriminator,

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Arlingate Lane, P.O. Box 28518, Columbus, OH 43228-0518; fax
For ASNT meetings and events Eddy Current Level I, San
(highlighted in red) contact the (614) 274-6899; email hcowans@asnt.org. Information in the
Calendar runs for four months at a time. ASNT reserves the right Antonio, Texas. BRL.
ASNT Conference Department,
1711 Arlingate Lane, P.O. Box to reject event listings for any reason. Listings will be edited to Eddy Current Level I, New
28518, Columbus, OH 43228- conform to ASNT’s editorial style. London, Connecticut. Hellier
0518; (800) 222-2768 or (614) Northeast.
274-6003; fax (614) 274-6899; Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
email conferences@asnt.org. Paige Haddy; (615) 216-4811 of the material presented. These
9–21 OCT
X3; email paige.haddy@mobi events often offer some form of
Eddy Current Level I/II, Kerala,
2018 usinstitute.com; imvacconfer course credit or continuing
India. Decibel.
education units to those partici-
28–31 OCT ence.com. pants successfully completing the
15–19 OCT
ASNT Annual Conference, course. For ASNT refresher
2019 courses, visit asnt.org/refresher. Eddy Current Level II, San
George R. Brown Convention Antonio, Texas. BRL.
ASNT neither approves nor
Center, Marriott Marquis 1–4 APR disapproves of any program or Eddy Current Level II, New
Houston, Houston, Texas. ASNT Research Symposium, training course claiming to meet London, Connecticut. Hellier
Contact: ASNT. Hyatt Regency Orange County, the recommendations of ASNT’s Northeast.
Garden Grove, California. Recommended Practice No.
12–13 NOV Level II, Pittsburgh,
SNT-TC-1A. The following are
Malaysia International NDT Contact: ASNT. contacts for only those organiza- Pennsylvania. Odyssey.
Conference and Exhibition 3 0 A P R – 2 M AY tions that offer public courses 16–28 OCT
2018, Sunway Pyramid NDT of Composites, MOTIF listed in this month’s Calendar.
Convention Centre, Subang The following courses are listed
Seattle, Seattle, Washington. without necessarily giving their full India. Decibel.
Jaya, Malaysia. Contact: Khairul Contact: ASNT. titles. 22–26 OCT
Anuar Bin Mohd Salleh;
+6017-3824591; email 17–19 SEP Eddy Current Level I, St. Louis,
khairul_anuar@nm.gov.my; International Symposium on Acoustic Emission Testing Missouri. Quality.
mindtce18.com. Nondestructive Eddy Current Level I, Brea,
8–12 OCT
Characterization of Materials, California. Test.
13–14 NOV Level I, Princeton Junction, New
Grand Hotel Bernardin,
1st World Conference for Jersey. Mistras. 29 OCT–2 NOV
Portorož, Slovenia. Contact:
Inspection and Maintenance Eddy Current Level II, St. Louis,
ASNT. 22–26 OCT
Robotics, The San Luis Resort, Missouri. Quality.
Level I/II, State College,
Spa & Conference Center, 18–21 NOV Eddy Current Level II, Brea,
Pennsylvania. TechKnowServ.
Galveston, Texas. Contact: ASNT Annual Conference, California. Test.
Rudolf Essel; email Westgate Resort & Casino, Las 5–9 NOV
1–14 NOV
rudolf.essel@sprintrobotics Vegas, Nevada. Contact: ASNT. PACwin Suite, Princeton
Junction, New Jersey. Mistras.
.org; sprintrobotics.org.
13–15 NOV
courses 3–7 DEC
India. Decibel.
Courses are events where partici- 6–10 NOV
3rd Annual International pants are instructed in the tech- Level II, Princeton Junction,
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Machine Vibration Analysis nologies and methodologies of a New Jersey. Mistras.
Bangalore, India. Trinity.
and Condition Monitoring particular technical area and which
(IMVAC), B Resort and Spa, generally conclude with the 9–22 NOV
student being evaluated to Eddy Current Level I/II, Kerala,
Orlando, Florida. Contact: determine the student's retention India. Decibel.

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Electromagnetic Testing, cont. 3–7 DEC 10–14 DEC 18–30 DEC
Eddy Current Level I, Anaheim, Eddy Current Level II (Aero), Eddy Current Level I/II, Kerala,
16–29 NOV California. Hellier Pacific. Anaheim, California. Hellier India. Decibel.
Eddy Current Level I/II, Kerala, Level I, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Pacific. 27–31 DEC
India. Decibel. Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
4–16 DEC Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
29 NOV–3 DEC Eddy Current Level I/II, Kerala, 11–23 DEC Bangalore, India. Trinity.
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), India. Decibel. Eddy Current Level I/II, Kerala,
Bangalore, India. Trinity. India. Decibel.
Course Contacts
The following are contacts for only those organizations that offer public courses listed in this month’s Calendar.
AIRT: Academy of Infrared Training Inc.; Hellier Pacific: Hellier; 2051 E. Cerritos PQT: PQT Services (Plumstead Training);
No. 720–702 Kentucky St., Bellingham, Ave., Ste. 8A, Anaheim, CA 92806; (714) Kim Rosa; 214 Pelham Davis Circle,
WA 98225; (888) 673-4743; email 956-2274; fax (714) 956-2277; email Greenville, SC 29615; (864) 292-1115;
airt@infraredtraining.net; infrared infoanaheim@hellierndt.com; hellier fax (770) 514-3299; email krosa@ats
training.net. ndt.com. lab.com; pqt.net.
Atlantic: Atlantic NDT Training; Gary L. Hellier South Central: Hellier; 600 Quality: Quality Testing Services;
Chapman; 24 Flat Rock Rd., Branford, CT Kenrick Dr. Suite C-1., Houston, TX Melissa Rankin; 2305 Millpark Dr.,
06405; (203) 481-4041; atlanticndt 77060; (281) 873-0980; fax (281) 873- Maryland Heights, MO 63043; (314)
training.com. 0981; email adminhouston@hellier 770-0607; (888) 770-0607; fax (314)
ATS: Applied Technical Services; Lisa ndt.com; hellierndt.com. 770-0103; email training@quali-
Henry; 1049 Triad Ct., Marietta, GA LTS: Leak Testing Specialists Inc.; tytesting.com; qualitytesting.com.
30062; (888) 287-5227; (678) 444- Cyndi Reid; 5776 Hoffner Ave., Ste. 304, Snell: The Snell Group; 322 N. Main St.,
2897; fax (770) 514-3299; email Orlando, FL 32822; (407) 737-6415; fax Ste. 8, Barre, VT 05641; (802) 479-
lhenry@atslab.com; atslab.com/ (407) 737-6416; email cyndi.reid@leak 7100; fax (802) 479-7171; email
training. testingspec.com; leaktestingspec.com. info@thesnellgroup.com; thesnell
BRL: BRL Consultants Inc.; 219 W. Mistras: Mistras Group Inc.; Christina group.com.
Rhapsody Dr., San Antonio, TX 78216; Librandy; 195 Clarksville Rd., Princeton TechKnowServ: TechKnowServ Corp.;
(210) 341-3442; fax (210) 341-2844; Junction, NJ 08550; (609) 716-4020; Subash Jayaraman; 2134 Sandy Dr.,
email info@brlconsultants.com; fax (609) 716-0706; email christina Ste. 14, State College, PA 16803;
brlconsultants.com. .librandy@mistrasgroup.com; (814) 237-1031; email subash@tech
CodeWest: 600 Kenrick Dr. Suite C-1., mistrasgroup.com. knowserv.com; techknowserv.com.
Houston, TX 77060; (281) 392-4540; NPI: NDE Professionals Inc.; 13339 NE Test: Test NDT; Cathy Harvey; 193 Viking
email info@codewest.com; codewest Airport Way, Ste. 100, Portland, OR Ave., Brea, CA 92821; (714) 255-1500;
.com. 97230; (503) 287-5255; fax (503) 287- fax (714) 255-1580; email ndttrain
Decibel: Decibel NDE Training Institute; 5992; email training@qnpi.com; @aol.com; testndt.com.
1st Floor Plainfield, Pattambi, Palakkad, ndeprofessionals.com. Trinity: Trinity Institute of NDT
Kerala, India 679303; +91 9387 674 Odyssey: Odyssey Technology Corp.; Technology; Ravi Kumar T. or Shiva
153, +91 0466 2214 333, or +91 8089 Carol Sansieri; 3000 Village Run Rd., Kumar R.; Plot No. V-22a, 2nd Stage,
000 250; email info@decibelnde.com; Unit 103, #149, Wexford, PA 15090; Peenya Industrial Estate, Bangalore,
decibelnde.com. (843) 817-3475; email carols@odyssey India 560058; +91 99009 29439 or
GE: GE Inspection Academy, General test.com. +91 98441 29439; email training
Electric, Oil & Gas: Digital Solutions; Olson: Olson Instruments; 12401 W. @trinityndt.com; trinityndt.com.
201 Beltway Green, Pasadena, TX 49th Ave., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033;
77503; (855) 232-7470; email (303) 423-1212; fax (303) 423-6071;
inspection.academy@ge.com; email info@olsoninstruments.com;
geinspectionacademy.com. olsoninstruments.com.
Hellier Northeast: Hellier; 1 Spar Yard
St., New London, CT 06320; (860) 437-
1003; fax (860) 437-1014; email
infonewlondon@hellierndt.com;
hellierndt.com.
ASNT grants
1384non-exclusive,
T O B E R of
201this
Infrared and Thermal 23–27 OCT
Testing Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Decibel.
1–5 OCT
Level I Thermographic 25–26 OCT
Applications, New Orleans, Mechanical Specialty Course,
Louisiana. Snell. Greenville, South Carolina.
Snell.
2–5 OCT
Level I, Louisville, Kentucky. 29 OCT–2 NOV
AIRT. Level I Thermographic
Applications, Cincinnati, Ohio.
9–12 OCT Snell.
Level I, Bellingham, Level II Thermographic
Washington. AIRT. Applications, Toronto, Ontario,
Level I, St. Louis, Missouri. Canada. Snell.
Quality.
5–9 NOV
10–11 OCT Level I Thermographic
Infrared for Electrical Applications, San Antonio,
Inspections, San Antonio, Texas. Snell.
Texas. Snell. Level II Advanced Infrared
13–16 OCT Thermography, San Antonio,
Applications in Buildings Texas. Snell.
(French), Montréal, Québec, 6–9 NOV
Canada. Snell. Level I, Austin, Texas. AIRT.
15–19 OCT Level I Thermographic
Level I Thermographic Applications (Spanish),
Applications, Greenville, South Santiago, Chile. Snell.
Carolina. Snell. Level II, Vancouver, British
Level II, St. Louis, Missouri. Columbia, Canada. AIRT.
Quality. 7–8 NOV
Level II Advanced Infrared for Electrical
Thermographic Applications Inspections, Chattanooga,
(French), Montréal, Québec, Tennessee. Snell.
Canada. Snell.
12–15 NOV
16–19 OCT Level II Advanced Infrared
Level I, Columbus, Ohio. AIRT. Thermography (Spanish),
16–20 OCT Santiago, Chile. Snell.
Level I/II, Kerala, India. 13–16 NOV
Decibel. Level I, Vancouver, British
22–26 OCT Columbia, Canada. AIRT.
Level I Thermographic 19–22 NOV
Applications, Tampa, Florida. Level I, Phoenix, Arizona. AIRT.
Snell.
Level II Advanced Infrared 19–23 NOV
Thermography, Tampa, Florida. Level I Thermographic
Snell. Applications, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. Snell.
23–24 OCT
Electrical Specialty Course, 20–24 NOV
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Snell. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Electrical Specialty Course, Decibel.
Greenville, South Carolina. 26–29 NOV
Snell. Level I, Orlando, Florida. AIRT.
23–26 OCT 3–6 DEC
Level I, Houston, Texas. AIRT. Level I, Chicago, Illinois. AIRT.
Level II, Orlando, Florida. AIRT.

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Infrared and Thermal Testing, cont. 20–24 NOV 29–31 OCT 4–8 DEC
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, San Antonio, Texas. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
3–7 DEC Decibel. BRL. Decibel.
Level I Thermographic 3–7 DEC 1–2 NOV 6–7 DEC
Applications, Phoenix, Arizona. Pressure Change Measurement Level I/II, Anaheim, California. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Brea,
Snell. Level I/II (with Bubble Level Hellier Pacific. California. Test.
Level I Thermographic I/II add-on elective), Orlando, 5–6 NOV 11–15 DEC
Applications (French), Florida. LTS. Level I/II, Greenville, South Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Montréal, Québec, Canada.
18–22 DEC Carolina. PQT. Decibel.
Snell.
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida.
Level II Advanced Infrared 13–14 DEC
Decibel. PQT. Level I/II, Houston, Texas.
Thermography, Phoenix,
Arizona. Snell. 5–9 NOV Hellier South Central.
Liquid Penetrant Testing Level I/II (NAS-410), Branford,
4–7 DEC 17–18 DEC
1–2 OCT Connecticut. Atlantic. Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia.
Level II Advanced Infrared
Thermography (Spanish), Level I/II, Greenville, South 6–10 NOV ATS.
Monterrey, Mexico. Snell. Carolina. PQT. Level I/II, Kerala, India. 18–22 DEC
Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida. Decibel.
5–6 DEC Level I/II, Kerala, India.
PQT.
Infrared for Electrical 8–9 NOV Decibel.
Inspections, Charleston, South 2–6 OCT Level I/II, New London, 19–21 DEC
Carolina. Snell. Level I/II, Kerala, India. Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Decibel.
10–14 DEC 12–13 NOV Bangalore, India. Trinity.
Level I Thermographic 4–5 OCT Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia. 25–29 DEC
Applications, Chicago Level I/II, Anaheim, California. ATS. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
(Palatine), Illinois. Snell. Hellier Pacific.
12–15 NOV Decibel.
11–14 DEC 9–12 OCT NAS-410, Anaheim, California. 7–8 JAN
Level I, Cincinnati, Ohio. AIRT. Level I/II, St. Louis, Missouri. Hellier Pacific. Level I/II, Greenville, South
Quality.
17–21 DEC 13–17 NOV Carolina. PQT.
Level I, Las Vegas, Nevada. 9–13 OCT Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida.
AIRT. Level I/II, Kerala, India. Decibel. PQT.
Decibel.
18–22 DEC 15–16 NOV 25–26 JAN
Level I/II, Kerala, India. 11–12 OCT Level I/II, Houston, Texas. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Decibel. Level I/II, Houston, Texas. Hellier South Central. Bangalore, India. Trinity.
Hellier South Central.
25–29 DEC 20–24 NOV
Level I/II, Kerala, India. 15–16 OCT Level I/II, Kerala, India. Magnetic Flux Leakage
Decibel. Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia. Decibel. Testing
ATS.
22–25 JAN 21–22 NOV 16–28 OCT
Level I, Phoenix, Arizona. AIRT. 15–17 OCT Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Bangalore, India. Trinity. Decibel.
29 JAN–1 FEB Branford, Connecticut. Atlantic.
Level I, Houston, Texas. AIRT. 26–29 NOV 5–8 NOV
15–18 OCT NAS-410, Houston, Texas. Level I/II, Greenville, South
Leak Testing Level II, Heath, Ohio. Mistras. Hellier South Central. Carolina. PQT.
NAS-410, New London,
26–30 NOV 16–29 NOV
16–20 OCT Connecticut. Hellier Northeast.
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
16–19 OCT Decibel. Decibel.
Decibel.
Level II (NAS-410), Greenville,
27–30 NOV 18–30 DEC
22–26 OCT South Carolina. PQT.
Mass Spectrometer Level I/II Level I/II, St. Louis, Missouri. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
16–20 OCT Quality. Decibel.
(with Bubble Level I/II add-on
Level I/II, Kerala, India.
elective), Orlando, Florida. LTS. 29–30 NOV
Decibel. Magnetic Particle and
2 NOV Level I/II, Anaheim, California.
Bubble Level I/II, St. Louis,
23–27 OCT Hellier Pacific. Liquid Penetrant Testing
Missouri. Quality. 3–4 DEC 15–19 OCT
Decibel.
19 NOV Level I/II, Greenville, South Level I/II, Branford,
29–30 OCT Carolina. PQT. Connecticut. Atlantic.
Bubble Level I/II, Anaheim,
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida. Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia.
California. Hellier Pacific.
Bangalore, India. Trinity. PQT. ATS.
ASNT grants
1386non-exclusive,
T O B E R of
201this
12–16 NOV 5–7 NOV
Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia. Level I/II, New London,
ATS. Connecticut. Hellier Northeast.
17–21 DEC 5–8 NOV
Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia. NAS-410, Anaheim, California.
ATS. Hellier Pacific.
6–9 NOV
Magnetic Particle Testing Level I/II, St. Louis, Missouri.
1–3 OCT Quality.
Level I/II, Anaheim, California. 6–10 NOV
Hellier Pacific. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
2–6 OCT Decibel.
Level I/II, Kerala, India. 7–9 NOV
Decibel. Level I/II, Greenville, South
3–5 OCT Carolina. PQT.
Level I/II, Greenville, South Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida.
Carolina. PQT. PQT.
Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida. 12–14 NOV
PQT. Level I/II, Houston, Texas.
8–10 OCT Hellier South Central.
Level I/II, Houston, Texas. 13–17 NOV
Hellier South Central. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
9–12 OCT Decibel.
Level II, Heath, Ohio. Mistras. 14–16 NOV
NAS-410, New London, Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia.
Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. ATS.
9–13 OCT 19–20 NOV
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Decibel. Bangalore, India. Trinity.
16–19 OCT 20–24 NOV
Level II (NAS-410), Greenville, Level I/II, Kerala, India.
South Carolina. PQT. Decibel.
16–20 OCT 26–28 NOV
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, Anaheim, California.
Decibel. Hellier Pacific.
17–19 OCT 26–30 NOV
Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
ATS. Decibel.
3–5 DEC
Branford, Connecticut. Atlantic.
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Brea,
23–27 OCT California. Test.
3–6 DEC
Decibel.
NAS-410, Houston, Texas.
27–28 OCT Hellier South Central.
4–8 DEC
29–31 OCT Decibel.
Level I/II, Anaheim, California.
5–7 DEC
Hellier Pacific.
Level I/II, Greenville, South
31 OCT–2 NOV Carolina. PQT.
Level I/II, San Antonio, Texas. Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida.
BRL. PQT.

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Magnetic Particle Testing, cont. 8–12 OCT Intermediate Digital X-ray Radiation Safety Officer (full
Basic Digital X-ray Testing Testing Level II, Cincinnati, 40 hours), Greenville, South
10–12 DEC Level I, Cincinnati, Ohio. GE. Ohio. GE. Carolina. PQT.
Level I/II, Houston, Texas. Computed Radiography Level I, Level I, Houston, Texas. Hellier Radiation Safety Officer (full
Hellier South Central. Greenville, South Carolina. South Central. 40 hours), Jacksonville, Florida.
10–14 DEC PQT. Level I Film, Atlanta, Georgia. PQT.
Level I/II (NAS-410), Branford, Digital Detector Array ATS. Radiation Safety
Connecticut. Atlantic. (DDA/DR) Testing Level II, Level I Non-film (NAS-410), Radiographer, Greenville,
Pasadena, Texas. GE. Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. South Carolina. PQT.
11–15 DEC Digital Radiography Level I, Level II, Kent, Washington. Radiation Safety
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Greenville, South Carolina. Mistras. Radiographer, Jacksonville,
Decibel. PQT. Level II, Brea, California. Test. Florida. PQT.
17–18 DEC Film, CR, DR, Non-film Level I, Non-film Level II (NAS-410), Radiation Safety Worker,
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Jacksonville, Florida. PQT. Greenville, South Carolina. Jacksonville, Florida. PQT.
Bangalore, India. Trinity. Film Radiography Level I, PQT. 22–31 OCT
Greenville, South Carolina. Non-film Level II Transition Level II Film/Non-film
18–21 DEC
PQT. (NAS-410), Greenville, South (NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia.
Level I/II, St. Louis, Missouri.
Film and Non-film Level I Carolina. PQT.
ATS.
Quality.
(60 hours), Greenville, South 15–24 OCT
18–22 DEC Carolina. PQT. 23–25 OCT
Level I Film/Non-film
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level II, Anaheim, California. Level I Non-film Transition
(NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia.
Decibel. Hellier Pacific. (NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia.
ATS.
Non-film Level I (NAS-410), ATS.
19–21 DEC
Greenville, South Carolina. 16–28 OCT
Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia. 29–31 OCT
PQT. Film Interpretation Level II,
ATS. Level II Non-film Transition
Non-film Level I Transition Kerala, India. Decibel. (NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia.
25–29 DEC (NAS-410), Greenville, South Level I/II, Kerala, India. ATS.
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Carolina. PQT. Decibel.
Decibel. 29 OCT–2 NOV
9–12 OCT 17–19 OCT
Film Interpretation, Houston,
9–11 JAN Level I, Brea, California. Test. Film Interpretation for
Texas. Hellier South Central.
Level I/II, Greenville, South Radiographers (24 hours),
9–21 OCT Level II, New London,
Carolina. PQT. Greenville, South Carolina.
Film Interpretation Level II, Connecticut. Hellier Northeast.
Level I/II, Jacksonville, Florida. PQT.
Kerala, India. Decibel. Level II, Portland, Oregon. NPI.
PQT.
Level I/II, Kerala, India. 22–23 OCT
31 OCT–2 NOV
23–24 JAN Decibel. Radiation Safety Worker, Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Greenville, South Carolina.
15–19 OCT Bangalore, India. Trinity.
Bangalore, India. Trinity. PQT.
Computed Radiographic 1–14 NOV
Testing Level II, Pasadena, 22–25 OCT
Radiographic Testing Film Interpretation Level II,
Texas. GE. Digital Radiography Level I,
Kerala, India. Decibel.
1–5 OCT Computed Radiography Level I, Anaheim, California. Hellier
Level I, Anaheim, California. Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Pacific.
Decibel.
Hellier Pacific. Computed Radiography Radiation Safety, Anaheim,
Level II, Greenville, South California. Hellier Pacific. 5–7 NOV
Level I, Kent, Washington.
Mistras. Carolina. PQT. ASTM CR/DR Process Control
22–26 OCT
Radiation Safety (IRRSP Digital Radiography Level I, Course (Three Days),
Computed Radiography
Preparation), Brea, California. Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Pasadena, Texas. GE.
Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
Test. Digital Radiography Level II, Digital Radiography Level II, 5–9 NOV
Greenville, South Carolina. Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Radiation Safety, Houston,
2–14 OCT
PQT. Level I, New London, Texas. Hellier South Central.
Film Interpretation Level II,
Film and Non-film Level II Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Radiographic Inspection, San
(NAS-410) 60 hours, Level I, Portland, Oregon. NPI. Antonio, Texas. BRL.
Greenville, South Carolina. Level II, Houston, Texas. Hellier
Decibel. 9–22 NOV
PQT. South Central. Film Interpretation Level II,
Film Interpretation, Anaheim, Level II Film, Atlanta, Georgia. Kerala, India. Decibel.
California. Hellier Pacific. ATS. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Film Radiography Level II, Level II Non-film (NAS-410), Decibel.
Greenville, South Carolina. Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
PQT. Radiation Safety Officer,
Jacksonville, Florida. PQT.
ASNT grants
1388non-exclusive,
T O B E R of
201this
12–16 NOV Level II Film, Atlanta, Georgia. Non-film Level II (NAS-410), 28 JAN–1 FEB
Computed Radiography Level I, ATS. Greenville, South Carolina. Computed Radiography
Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Level II Non-film (NAS-410), PQT. Level II, Greenville, South
Digital Radiography Level I, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Non-film Level II Transition Carolina. PQT.
Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Non-film Level I (NAS-410), (NAS-410), Greenville, South Digital Radiography Level II,
Level I, Houston, Texas. Hellier Greenville, South Carolina. Carolina. PQT. Greenville, South Carolina.
South Central. PQT. Radiation Safety, Houston, PQT.
Level I Film, Atlanta, Georgia. Non-film Level I Transition Texas. Hellier South Central. Film and Non-film Level II
ATS. (NAS-410), Greenville, South 11–23 DEC
(NAS-410) 60 hours,
Level I Non-film (NAS-410), Carolina. PQT. Film Interpretation Level II, Greenville, South Carolina.
Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Radiation Safety, New London, Kerala, India. Decibel. PQT.
Radiation Safety, St. Louis, Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Level I/II, Kerala, India. Film Radiography Level II,
Missouri. Quality. 26 NOV–5 DEC Decibel. Greenville, South Carolina.
12–21 NOV Level II Film/Non-film PQT.
17–21 DEC Non-film Level II (NAS-410),
Level I Film/Non-film (NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia. Level I, Houston, Texas. Hellier Greenville, South Carolina.
(NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. South Central. PQT.
ATS. 3–5 DEC Radiation Safety, Anaheim, Non-film Level II Transition
16–29 NOV Level II Non-film Transition California. Hellier Pacific. (NAS-410), Greenville, South
Film Interpretation Level II, (NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia. Radiation Safety Officer Carolina. PQT.
Kerala, India. Decibel. ATS. (full 40 hours), Jacksonville,
Level I/II, Kerala, India. 3–7 DEC
Florida. PQT. Ultrasonic Testing
Decibel. Digital Detector Array Radiation Safety
Radiographer, Jacksonville, 1–3 OCT
19–21 NOV (DDA/DR) Testing Level II, Ultrasonic Thickness, Houston,
Radiography RSO, Anaheim, Cincinnati, Ohio. GE. Florida. PQT.
Radiation Safety Worker, Texas. Hellier South Central.
California. Hellier Pacific. Digital Radiography Level I,
New London, Connecticut. Jacksonville, Florida. PQT. 1–5 OCT
20–22 NOV
Hellier Northeast. 18–30 DEC Level I, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
Level I Non-film Transition
Level I, San Antonio, Texas. Film Interpretation Level II, Level II, Heath, Ohio. Mistras.
(NAS-410), Atlanta, Georgia.
BRL. Kerala, India. Decibel. 2–14 OCT
ATS.
Level II, St. Louis, Missouri. Level I/II, Kerala, India. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
23–25 NOV Quality. Decibel. Decibel.
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Film Interpretation, Houston, 21–23 DEC Phased Array Level II, Kerala,
Bangalore, India. Trinity. Texas. Hellier South Central. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), India. Decibel.
26–30 NOV 4–16 DEC Bangalore, India. Trinity. Time of Flight Diffraction
Computed Radiographic Film Interpretation Level II, Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel.
21–25 JAN
Testing Level II, Cincinnati, Kerala, India. Decibel. 2–21 OCT
Computed Radiography Level I,
Ohio. GE. Level I/II, Kerala, India. Practical Level II, Kerala, India.
Greenville, South Carolina.
Computed Radiography Level I, Decibel. Decibel.
PQT.
10–14 DEC Digital Radiography Level I, 8–12 OCT
PQT.
Computed Radiography Greenville, South Carolina. Level I, Anaheim, California.
Computed Radiography
Level II, Greenville, South PQT. Hellier Pacific.
Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
Carolina. PQT. Film, CR, DR, Non-film Level I, Level I, Houston, Texas. Hellier
Digital Radiography Level I,
Digital Radiography Level II, Jacksonville, Florida. PQT. South Central.
New London, Connecticut. Film Radiography Level I, Level I, Portland, Oregon. NPI.
PQT.
Hellier Northeast. Greenville, South Carolina. Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS.
Digital Radiography Level II,
Digital Radiography Level II, PQT.
Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. 9–21 OCT
Greenville, South Carolina. Film and Non-film Level I
Film, CR, DR, Non-film Level I, Auto Data Interpreter Level II,
PQT. (60 hours), Greenville, South
Jacksonville, Florida. PQT. Kerala, India. Decibel.
Film and Non-film Level II Carolina. PQT.
Film Radiography Level I, Level I/II, Kerala, India.
(NAS-410) 60 hours, Non-film Level I (NAS-410),
Greenville, South Carolina. Decibel.
Greenville, South Carolina. Greenville, South Carolina.
PQT. Phased Array Level II, Kerala,
PQT. PQT.
Film and Non-film Level I India. Decibel.
Film Radiography Level II, Non-film Level I Transition
(60 hours), Greenville, South Time of Flight Diffraction
Greenville, South Carolina. (NAS-410), Greenville, South
Carolina. PQT. Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel.
PQT. Carolina. PQT.
Level I, St. Louis, Missouri.
Level II, San Antonio, Texas. 9–28 OCT
Quality. 27–29 JAN
BRL. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Practical Level II, Kerala, India.
Level II, Houston, Texas. Hellier
South Central. Bangalore, India. Trinity. Decibel.

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Weld Inspection, Heath, Ohio. Level II Week 2, Pasadena, Level I, Greenville, South
15–19 OCT Mistras. Texas. GE. Carolina. PQT.
Level II, Anaheim, California. Phased Array Week 1,
6–25 NOV 14–19 JAN
Hellier Pacific. Houston, Texas. Hellier South
Practical Level II, Kerala, India. Continental Motors Crankshaft
Level II, Houston, Texas. Hellier Central.
Decibel. UT Training, Greenville, South
South Central.
9–22 NOV
4–16 DEC Carolina. PQT.
Level II, Portland, Oregon. NPI.
Auto Data Interpreter Level II, 17–19 JAN
16–28 OCT Decibel.
Kerala, India. Decibel. Continental Motors Crankshaft
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Phased Array Level II, Kerala,
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Decibel. UT Level II or III, Greenville,
Decibel. India. Decibel.
Phased Array Level II, Kerala, South Carolina. PQT.
Phased Array Level II, Kerala, Time of Flight Diffraction,
India. Decibel. 18–22 JAN
India. Decibel. Kerala, India. Decibel.
Time of Flight Diffraction Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Time of Flight Diffraction
Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel. 4–23 DEC
Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel.
Practical Level II, Kerala, India.
12–16 NOV
22–26 OCT Decibel. 21–25 JAN
Level I, Houston, Texas. Hellier
Level I, Pasadena, Texas. GE. Level II, Greenville, South
South Central. 10–14 DEC
Level II, Pittsburgh, Carolina. PQT.
Phased Array Level II Level I, Cincinnati, Ohio. GE.
Pennsylvania. Odyssey.
(SNT-TC-1A), Brea, California. Level I, Brea, California. Test.
Test. Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Visual Testing
13–15 NOV
Level II, Heath, Ohio. Mistras. 2–4 OCT
Phased Array Week 1,
Thickness, St. Louis, Missouri. Level II, St. Louis, Missouri. Level I/II, Skaneateles, New
Houston, Texas. Hellier South
Quality. Quality. York. GE.
Central.
Phased Array Week 2, Level I/II, New London,
Phased Array Week 1, St. 13–30 NOV Houston, Texas. Hellier South Connecticut. Hellier Northeast.
Louis, Missouri. Quality. Practical Level II, Kerala, India. Central. Level I/II, Portland, Oregon.
25 OCT Decibel. NPI.
11–23 DEC
UT-Thickness, Digital Level II, 14–18 NOV Level I/II, St. Louis, Missouri.
Auto Data Interpreter Level II,
San Antonio, Texas. BRL. Level II, Greenville, South Quality.
29 OCT–2 NOV Carolina. PQT. Level I/II, Kerala, India. 9–13 OCT
Level I, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Decibel. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Phased Array Week 2, Bangalore, India. Trinity. Phased Array Level II, Kerala, Decibel.
Houston, Texas. Hellier South 16–29 NOV India. Decibel.
Central. 16–20 OCT
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Time of Flight Diffraction,
Phased Array Week 2, St. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Decibel. Kerala, India. Decibel.
Louis, Missouri. Quality. Decibel.
Phased Array Level II, Kerala, 11–30 DEC
India. Decibel. 22–24 OCT
30 OCT–1 NOV Practical Level II, Kerala, India.
Ultrasonic Thickness Testing, Time of Flight Diffraction Level I/II, San Antonio, Texas.
Decibel.
Greenville, South Carolina. PQT. Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel. BRL.
12–16 DEC
26–30 NOV 23–25 OCT
1–14 NOV Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Decibel. Level I, Salt Lake City, Utah. Weld Inspection, Heath, Ohio.
Phased Array Level II, Kerala, GE. Mistras.
17–19 DEC
India. Decibel. Level I, New London, 23–27 OCT
Ultrasonic Thickness, Houston,
Time of Flight Diffraction Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Texas. Hellier South Central.
Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel. Level II, Houston, Texas. Hellier Decibel.
South Central. 17–21 DEC
5–6 NOV 30 OCT–1 NOV
Mentor UT Phased Array Level I, Cincinnati, Ohio. GE.
Introduction to Phased Array, Level I/II, Greenville, South
Level II Week 1, Pasadena, Level II, Greenville, South
Brea, California. Test. Carolina. PQT.
Texas. GE. Carolina. PQT.
5–9 NOV
3–7 DEC
Level II, Brea, California. Test. 3–5 NOV
Level II, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A),
Level I, Atlanta, Georgia. ATS. 18–30 DEC
Level II, Pasadena, Texas. GE. Bangalore, India. Trinity.
Level I, Heath, Ohio. Mistras. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Phased Array Level I (SNT-TC-1A),
Level I, St. Louis, Missouri. Decibel. 13–17 NOV
Brea, California. Test.
Quality. Phased Array Level II, Kerala, Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Phased Array Time of Flight
Level II, Salt Lake City, Utah. India. Decibel. Decibel.
Diffraction, Houston, Texas.
GE. Time of Flight Diffraction, 20–24 NOV
Level II, New London, Kerala, India. Decibel. Level I/II, Kerala, India.
Time of Flight Diffraction, St.
Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Decibel.
Louis, Missouri. Quality.
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Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Structures: Concrete Condition
Bangalore, India. Trinity. Assessment and Quality
10–12 DEC
Assurance, Wheat Ridge,
Level I/II, Anaheim, California. Colorado. Olson.
Hellier Pacific. Structures: Structural NDE
Methods for Concrete,
11–15 DEC Masonry, and Wood, Wheat
Level I/II, Kerala, India. Ridge, Colorado. Olson.
Decibel.
2–11 OCT
17–19 DEC API 570, Houston, Texas.
Level I/II, Houston, Texas. CodeWest.
2–14 OCT
18–20 DEC API 510 Preparatory Course,
Level I/II, New London, Kerala, India. Decibel.
Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Welding Inspection and
18–22 DEC Quality Control Level I, Kerala,
Level I/II, Kerala, India. India. Decibel.
Decibel. Welding Inspection and
Quality Control Level II, Kerala,
19–21 DEC India. Decibel.
Level I/II, Atlanta, Georgia.
ATS. 2–21 OCT
Concrete NDT, Kerala, India.
24–26 DEC Decibel.
Bangalore, India. Trinity. 3 OCT
Foundations/Pavements:
25–29 DEC Quality Assurance and Forensic
Level I/II, Kerala, India. NDE Methods for Pavements
Decibel. and Foundations, Wheat Ridge,
23–25 JAN Colorado. Olson.
Level I/II, Greenville, South 4 OCT
Carolina. PQT. Geophysics: Engineering and
30 JAN–1 FEB Environmental Geophysics,
Level I/II (SNT-TC-1A), Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Olson.
Bangalore, India. Trinity. 4–11 OCT
API 570, Houston, Texas.
Short Courses/Topical CodeWest.
Seminars 8–12 OCT
1–3 OCT All in One (PT, MT, and
Flow Iron Recertification, State Ultrasonic Thickness Testing)
College, Pennsylvania. Level II, State College,
TechKnowServ. Pennsylvania. TechKnowServ.
1–10 OCT 9–21 OCT
Inservice Inspection Corrosion API 570 Preparatory Course,
Monitoring, Kerala, India. Kerala, India. Decibel.
Decibel. Lead Auditor ISO 9001, Kerala,
India. Decibel.
1–12 OCT
NDT Auditing Systems, Kerala,
Certified Quality Controller—
India. Decibel.
Mechanical, Kerala, India.
Welding Inspection and
Decibel.
Quality Control Level I, Kerala,
1–15 OCT India. Decibel.
Certified Quality Controller— Welding Inspection and
Civil, Kerala, India. Decibel. Quality Control Level II, Kerala,
Mechanical Inspector Oil and India. Decibel.
Gas, Kerala, India. Decibel.

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Short Courses/Topical Seminars, 1–12 NOV 10–20 NOV 1–15 DEC
cont. Certified Quality Controller— Inservice Inspection Corrosion Certified Quality Controller—
9–28 OCT
Mechanical, Kerala, India. Monitoring, Kerala, India. Civil, Kerala, India. Decibel.
Concrete NDT, Kerala, India. Decibel. Decibel. Mechanical Inspector Oil and
Decibel. 1–14 NOV 12–16 NOV
Gas, Kerala, India. Decibel.
12–24 OCT
API 510 Preparatory Course, All in One (PT, MT, and 3–5 DEC
Certified Quality Controller— Kerala, India. Decibel. Ultrasonic Thickness Testing) Flow Iron Recertification, State
Mechanical, Kerala, India. Welding Inspection and Level II, State College, College, Pennsylvania.
Decibel. Quality Control Level I, Kerala, Pennsylvania. TechKnowServ. TechKnowServ.
India. Decibel. NDT Instructor Qualification & 3–7 DEC
15–19 OCT Welding Inspection and Development, Houston, Texas.
Intro to NDT, Houston, Texas. API 1169, Houston, Texas.
Quality Control Level II, Kerala, Hellier South Central. CodeWest.
Hellier South Central. India. Decibel. 12–24 NOV
4–16 DEC
16–28 OCT 1–15 NOV Certified Quality Controller—
API 653 Preparatory Course, API 510 Preparatory Course,
Certified Quality Controller— Mechanical, Kerala, India.
Kerala, India. Decibel. Kerala, India. Decibel.
Civil, Kerala, India. Decibel. Decibel.
NDT Train the Trainer, Kerala, Welding Inspection and
Mechanical Inspector Oil and
India. Decibel. 13–30 NOV Quality Control Level I, Kerala,
Gas, Kerala, India. Decibel. Concrete NDT, Kerala, India.
Welding Inspection and India. Decibel.
Quality Control Level I, Kerala, 5–9 NOV Decibel. Welding Inspection and
India. Decibel. Flow Iron Recertification, State Quality Control Level II, Kerala,
16–29 NOV
Welding Inspection and College, Pennsylvania. API 653 Preparatory Course, India. Decibel.
Quality Control Level II, Kerala, TechKnowServ. Kerala, India. Decibel. 4–23 DEC
India. Decibel. 6–25 NOV NDT Train the Trainer, Kerala, Concrete NDT, Kerala, India.
16–30 OCT
Concrete NDT, Kerala, India. India. Decibel. Decibel.
Piping Inspection, Kerala, Decibel. Welding Inspection and 11–23 DEC
India. Decibel. 9 NOV
Quality Control Level I, Kerala, API 570 Preparatory Course,
Human Factors Awareness, St. India. Decibel. Kerala, India. Decibel.
22–25 OCT Welding Inspection and
Turbine Inspection, Houston, Louis, Missouri. Quality. Lead Auditor ISO 9001, Kerala,
Quality Control Level II, Kerala, India. Decibel.
Texas. Hellier South Central. 9–22 NOV India. Decibel.
API 570 Preparatory Course, NDT Auditing Systems, Kerala,
22–26 OCT 16–30 NOV India. Decibel.
API 1169, Houston, Texas. Kerala, India. Decibel.
Piping Inspection, Kerala, Welding Inspection and
CodeWest. Lead Auditor ISO 9001, Kerala,
India. Decibel.
India. Decibel. Quality Control Level I, Kerala,
Auditing NDT Systems, India. Decibel.
Houston, Texas. Hellier South NDT Auditing Systems, Kerala, 1–10 DEC
India. Decibel. Inservice Inspection Corrosion Welding Inspection and
Central. Quality Control Level II, Kerala,
Welding Inspection and Monitoring, Kerala, India.
30 OCT–8 NOV Quality Control Level I, Kerala, Decibel. India. Decibel.
API 653, Houston, Texas. India. Decibel. 11–30 DEC
1–12 DEC
CodeWest. Welding Inspection and Concrete NDT, Kerala, India.
Certified Quality Controller—
1–8 NOV Quality Control Level II, Kerala, Mechanical, Kerala, India. Decibel.
API 653, Houston, Texas. India. Decibel. Decibel. 12–24 DEC
CodeWest. Certified Quality Controller—
Mechanical, Kerala, India.
Online Education Decibel.

16–30 DEC
The following are contacts for organizations offering online courses available any time. For Piping Inspection, Kerala,
course offerings and other information, please contact the organization. India. Decibel.
18–30 DEC
Chuck Hellier’s NDT Classroom, Inc.: William Son Set Consultants Training, LLC: Rick
API 653 Preparatory Course,
Cronberger; 710 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14202- Gaffney; 7679 N. 140th E. Ave., Owasso, OK
1915; (716) 812-8165; email billc@ndtclass 74055; (918) 633-0740; email sonsetconsul
NDT Train the Trainer, Kerala,
room.com. tants@gmail.com; weld-procedure.com.
India. Decibel.
Global NDE Guru: S.B. Prasad; 11210 WorldSpec NDT Training, a division of Hellier Welding Inspection and
Steeplecrest Dr., Suite 370, Houston, TX NDT: Parker Ray; 600 Kenrick Suite C-1, Quality Control Level I, Kerala,
77065; (877) 237-2858; fax (832) 237-2800; Houston, TX, 77060-66239; (877) 506-7773; India. Decibel.
email info@ndeguru.com or ndt@ndtcs.com; email info@worldspec.org; worldspec.org. Welding Inspection and
https://ndeguru.com. Quality Control Level II, Kerala,
India. Decibel.
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Preparation/Refreshers MT Level III Refresher, Eddy Current Level III MT Level III Refresher, New
Anaheim, California. Hellier Refresher, New London, London, Connecticut. Hellier
1–2 OCT Pacific. Connecticut. Hellier Northeast. Northeast.
MT Level III Refresher, New RT Level III Refresher, New
London, Connecticut. Hellier 22–26 OCT 10–12 DEC
Advanced Digital X-ray Testing London, Connecticut. Hellier RT Level III, Greenville, South
Northeast. Northeast.
Level III, Pasadena, Texas. GE. Carolina. PQT.
1–5 OCT UT Level III Refresher, New UT Level III, Houston, Texas.
Advanced Digital X-ray Testing Kraft. 10–14 DEC
London, Connecticut. Hellier Advanced Digital X-ray Testing
Level III, Cincinnati, Ohio. GE. Northeast. 13–17 NOV
Digital Radiography Non-film Level III, Pasadena, Texas. GE.
PT Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
Level III, Houston, Texas. 23–27 OCT ET Level III (Eddy Current),
UT Level III, Kerala, India. Decibel.
Hellier South Central. Houston, Texas. Kraft.
RT Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
RT Level III, Houston, Texas. Decibel. UT Level III Refresher,
Decibel.
Kraft. 24–25 OCT
Houston, Texas. Hellier South
RT Level III Refresher, Houston, PT Level III Refresher, 14–16 NOV Central.
Texas. Hellier South Central. Basic Level III, Greenville,
Anaheim, California. Hellier 11–13 DEC
UT Level III, St. Louis, South Carolina. PQT. MT Level III, St. Louis,
Pacific.
Missouri. Quality. MT Level III, Greenville, South Missouri. Quality.
28–30 OCT Carolina. PQT.
2–6 OCT MT Level III, Houston, Texas. PT Level III, Greenville, South 11–15 DEC
Basic Level III Prep, Kerala, Kraft. Carolina. PQT. PT Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
India. Decibel. MT Level III, Greenville, South Decibel.
29 OCT–2 NOV
MT Level III Prep, Kerala, India. Carolina. PQT. RT Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
Basic Level III Refresher, New
Decibel. RT Level III, Greenville, South Decibel.
London, Connecticut. Hellier
3–4 OCT Northeast. Carolina. PQT. 12–13 DEC
PT Level III Refresher, New UT Level III Refresher, UT Level III, Greenville, South PT Level III Refresher, New
London, Connecticut. Hellier Houston, Texas. Hellier South Carolina. PQT. London, Connecticut. Hellier
Northeast. Central. VT Level III, Greenville, South Northeast.
Carolina. PQT.
8–12 OCT 30 OCT–2 NOV 17–21 DEC
Basic Level III Refresher, PT Level III, Houston, Texas. 19–21 NOV Basic Level III, St. Louis,
Houston, Texas. Hellier South Kraft. VT Level III Refresher, Missouri. Quality.
Central. Anaheim, California. Hellier Eddy Current Level III
5–8 NOV Pacific.
Eddy Current Level III Refresher, Anaheim, California.
IR Level III, Louisville,
Refresher, Houston, Texas. 26–30 NOV Hellier Pacific.
Kentucky. AIRT.
Hellier South Central. RT Level III, Houston, Texas. UT Level III, Houston, Texas.
5–9 NOV Kraft. Kraft.
9–13 OCT
Basic Level III, Houston, Texas. UT Level III Refresher,
PT Level III Prep, Kerala, India. 25–29 DEC
Kraft. Anaheim, California. Hellier
Decibel. ET Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
Basic Level III Refresher, Pacific.
RT Level III Prep, Kerala, India. Decibel.
Anaheim, California. Hellier
Decibel. 27–28 NOV UT Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
Pacific.
10–12 OCT VT Level III, Brea, California. Decibel.
Basic Level III Refresher,
VT Level III, Houston, Texas. Houston, Texas. Hellier South Test. 23–25 JAN
Kraft. Central. 3–7 DEC VT Level III, Greenville, South
15–16 OCT RT Level III Refresher, Houston, Basic Level III Refresher, Carolina. PQT.
MT Level III Refresher, Texas. Hellier South Central. Houston, Texas. Hellier South 28–30 JAN
Houston, Texas. Hellier South 6–8 NOV Central. RT Level III, Greenville, South
Central. VT Level III Refresher, New RT Level III Refresher, Carolina. PQT.
London, Connecticut. Hellier Anaheim, California. Hellier w
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15–19 OCT Pacific.
Eddy Current Level III, Northeast.
RT Level III Refresher, Houston,
Houston, Texas. Kraft. 6–10 NOV Texas. Hellier South Central.
RT Level III, St. Louis, Missouri. Basic Level III Prep, Kerala,
Quality. India. Decibel. 4–8 DEC
MT Level III Prep, Kerala, India. Basic Level III Prep, Kerala,
17–18 OCT India. Decibel.
PT Level III Refresher, Houston, Decibel.
MT Level III Prep, Kerala, India.
Texas. Hellier South Central. Decibel.

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Smart Concrete for Enhanced Nondestructive

Evaluation
by Simon Laflamme*†, David Eisenmann†, Kejin Wang*, Filippo Ubertini‡, Irvin Pinto§, and Akira DeMoss¶
ABSTRACT Strain-sensing tests also demonstrated that SEBS-

In this study, the authors investigate the use of based specimens have good sensing properties,
conductive concrete to enhance nondestructive but lag behind those of conductive concrete
evaluation (NDE) capabilities. Preliminary results specimens fabricated with carbon black only.
have shown that a conductive concrete can facili- KEYWORDS: nondestructive evaluation, eddy
tate the utilization of an eddy current technique, in current, conductive concrete, smart concrete, struc-
which damages in a conductive specimen were tural health monitoring, carbon black, SEBS
easier to detect compared with a nonconductive
Introduction
substrate. While such results demonstrated the
Detecting damage in large concrete structures is a difficult
promise of using conductive concrete to facilitate task. It is reported that the vast majority of concrete condition
and potentially accelerate the NDE process, the assessments are conducted by visual testing (International
fabrication of a homogeneous conductive concrete Atomic Energy Agency 2002). Visual testing can be time
is technically or economically challenging, consuming, is not capable of looking below the surface, and
relies on an inspector’s judgment. Various nondestructive
depending on the conductive filler used in the evaluation (NDE) techniques can potentially be used in situ
process. In this paper, the authors propose a new to provide more complete and potentially more accurate
cementitious composite to accelerate NDE. The information about structural health. Of interest in this paper is
composite uses inexpensive carbon black particles the NDE of large-scale cementitious substrates such as pave-
ments and nuclear confinement structures. However, NDE
and a block-copolymer. The purpose of the block methods typically used in monitoring such components,
copolymer, a styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene including ultrasound and ground penetrating radar, are rela-
(SEBS), is to facilitate the creation of conductive tively slow processes, and given the attenuating nature of
chains, therefore reducing the necessary concen- concrete, some discontinuities can be very difficult to detect.
As will be demonstrated in the next section, it is possible to
tration of conductive filler required to achieve elec- utilize smart concrete to enhance NDE capabilities. Smart
trical percolation. Several cementitious composite concrete is fabricated by adding conductive particles within the
specimens of various concentrations of carbon cementitious matrix. Beyond a given concentration of conduc-
black particles were fabricated, and results show tive particles, the cementitious material becomes conductive;
this concentration is termed percolation threshold. Several
that the utilization of SEBS reduced the electrical studies have analyzed cementitious materials filled with carbon
percolation threshold by approximately 50%, with nanoinclusions (Materazzi et al. 2013; Galao et al. 2014;
a gain on electrical conductivity relative to a Ubertini et al. 2014; D’Alessandro et al. 2015b) that include
nonconductive specimen mix of approximately 33%. carbon black particles, carbon fibers, and carbon nanotubes. The
enhanced electrical properties of concrete can be leveraged to
improve NDE capabilities, in particular enabling eddy current
* Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa because the technique could be more sensitive to discontinuities
State University, Ames, Iowa and possibly be applied contactless. While the concept of
† Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa conductive concrete has been used in pavements, primarily for
‡ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Perugia, Perugia, Italy deicing purposes (Yehia and Tuan 2000; Tumidajski et al.
§ Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa 2003; Wu et al. 2005), it is yet to be implemented as a tool to
State University, Ames, Iowa; email ijpinto@iastate.edu improve fault detection. The development of multifunctional
¶ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State Univer-
sity, Ames, Iowa cementitious materials for sensing purposes is more complex.

x smart concrete for enhanced nde
This is mainly because the nanocomposite must provide a cementitious specimens termed SEBS-CB (styrene-ethylene-
linear and accurately measurable signal with respect to a butylene-styrene/carbon black) specimens. The study builds
change in the measured state. There are fundamental chal- on the results of a preliminary investigation (Laflamme et al.
lenges that limit the cost-effective fabrication of large volumes 2015). A more extensive study is presented here to support
of conductive cementitious materials, namely: the hypothesis that SEBS can be used to accelerate percola-
l There is a tradeoff between the cost of the selected conduc- tion of cement paste filled with carbon black. Also, the fabrica-
tive filler and its conductivity. Lower-conductivity nanofillers tion procedure has been updated and validated in order to
such as carbon black particles require higher loading, which improve on the dispersion of the SEBS-CB mix. Note that the
may significantly affect the strength of the nanocomposite. work presented in this paper focuses on the application of
Conversely, higher-conductivity nanofillers such as carbon SEBS-CB to create conductive cement paste. The quantifica-
nanotubes require fewer particles, but result in a much higher tion of NDE capabilities using SEBS-based cementitious
fabrication cost. mixes is left to future work, because the performance of SEBS-
l The majority of the proposed conductive cementitious CB in concrete—including its influence on strength and dura-
materials necessitate a complex fabrication process to ensure bility—is yet to be studied. The authors also anticipate that
the homogeneous dispersion of nanoparticles (Ubertini et al. the inclusion of aggregates in the mix would add a layer of
2014), which impedes scalability. This is a problem particu- complexity in the investigation, which is also left to future work.
larly associated with carbon nanotubes, which tend to spon-
taneously agglomerate in bundles due to van der waals Enhanced NDE Using Conductive Concrete
attraction forces (Lourie et al. 1998). In this work, the utilization of conductive concrete to improve
The authors have previously used carbon black particles to damage detection using eddy current-based NDE was investi-
create conductive materials (Laflamme et al. 2013) due to the gated. Two concrete specimens of dimensions 203.2 101.6
particles’ low cost and ease of dispersion (Huang 2002). It 88.9 mm3 were poured, one made conductive by adding
was found that carbon black particles are excellent candidates
in producing scalable smart materials, such as smart road
pavements. However, the required concentration level of
carbon black to achieve electrical conductivity is prohibitive
(Wen and Chung 1999; Li et al. 2006), and such a high
doping content may have detrimental effects on the material’s
physical properties. A solution is to utilize a polymer to facili-
tate the creation of conductive chains, therefore reducing the
amount of required conductive filler. For example, other
authors (Al-Saleh and Sundararaj 2008) showed that the use
of styrene-butadiene-styrene to disperse carbon black parti-
cles resulted in a 40% reduction in the percolation threshold.
Other researchers (Gubbels et al. 1994) studied the percolation (a)
in composites where polyethylene was mixed with polystyrene,
and found that carbon black was selectively distributed on the
polyethylene phase and thus led to reduced percolation thresh-
olds compared with the utilization of monophase polymers as
composites. It was also demonstrated that the use of carbon
black may improve resistance of concrete to chloride (Masadeh
2015; Thomas et al. 2016) and that up to 25% of cement in a (b)
concrete mix could be replaced with various fillers (such as
carbon black) without any detrimental effects to durability,
workability, and permeability (Chan and Wu 2000).
In this paper, the authors study the utilization of a block
copolymer, namely styrene-ethylene-utylene-styrene (SEBS),
to accelerate percolation of carbon black–filled cementitious
materials, therefore decreasing the requisite loading of filler
for the fabrication of smart cementitious materials that could (c)
be used to accelerate NDE of concrete components. The
objective was to produce a homogenous conductive mix using Figure 1. Specimens showing embedded objects: (a) photographs of
neat (left) and conductive (right) specimens; (b) digital radiograph of
a smaller amount of carbon black than what would be needed reference (neat) specimen; and (c) digital radiograph of conductive
for a neat cementitous matrix. This was done by fabricating specimen.
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carbon black particles and one neat (free from admixture). used to detect embedded steel, such as reinforcement bars
Both specimens are shown in Figure 1a. Identical items were and connections. However, the inspector would need to
placed into both specimens during the pouring process. These distinguish between these elements and possible discontinu-
included a ping-pong ball, a square piece of foam, and steel ities, for instance, by corroborating results with existing plans
washers, as shown in Figures 1b and 1c (left, middle, and or using structural engineering knowledge. Dependent on the
right, respectively). Note that these items were not selected to proximity of the structural discontinuity to the embedded
emulate realistic damages found in concrete, but instead to steel, the signal from the discontinuity may combine with the
provide insights on the performance of the proposed mix for signal from the embedded steel. If this were the case, a signal
detecting voids and conductive mediums. analysis would need to be performed in order to subtract the
A contact sliding eddy current probe was used to detect signal of the embedded steel from that of the combined signal
damage. The probe was used in both absolute and differential in order to determine the amplitude of the discontinuity
modes at a 5 kHz frequency. Figure 2 shows the results from signal. A simpler alternative is to set the threshold limit of the
the preliminary investigation. Figures 2a and 2d show photo- amplitude signal equivalent to the value of the embedded
graphs of the test setup with the probe traveling on the block steel signal. In the case where the discontinuity signal were to
from left to right. A study of the impedance planes revealed combine with the signal of the embedded steel, the threshold
that the eddy current probe positively responded to damages limit would be exceeded, and the inspector could be alerted to
in the case of the specimen doped with carbon black particles, the change in signal response. This can also help determine if
while the probe showed no response in the case of the neat the steel reinforcement has shifted or was wrongly placed
specimen. While results presented in this section are qualita- during construction.
tive in nature, they demonstrate that smart concrete could be
used to enhance NDE of concrete components. Currently, Methodology
commonly found deterioration and discontinuities in rein- SEBS-CB mixes were fabricated using SEBS (density =
forced concrete structures that can be detected by state-of- 930 kg/m3), carbon black (2% ash content and 500 ppm
the-art eddy current techniques include air voids and cracks sieve residue 45 m), portland cement type I/II, and copper
that are not visible from the surface. Eddy current can also be meshes used to form the electrodes. All the materials were left
frq: 5.00 kHz frq: 5.00 kHz

X: 0.5 V/DIV X: 0.5 V/DIV
Y: 0.5 V/DIV Y: 0.5 V/DIV
(a) (b) (c)
frq: 5.00 kHz frq: 5.00 kHz

X: 0.5 V/DIV X: 0.5 V/DIV
Y: 0.5 V/DIV Y: 0.5 V/DIV
(d) (e) (f)
Figure 2. Results from preliminary investigation: (a) probe on conductive specimen; (b) positive response to the ping-pong ball (conductive
specimen); (c) positive response to the washer (conductive specimen); (d) probe on control specimen; (e) negative response to the ping-pong
ball (control specimen); and (f) negative response to the washer (control specimen).

unaltered, except for the agglomerated carbon black particles,

which were broken down using a ball milling process for a
duration of 24 h. Figure 3 shows photographs of the carbon
black particles as received (Figure 3a) and after ball milling
(Figure 3b), in which the particles show finer and more
homogeneous geometrical shapes. The average particle size
decreased from approximately 900 to 45 μm, which facilitated
their dispersion within the cementitious matrix. SEBS-CB
specimens were fabricated and their electrical behaviors were
compared with specimens fabricated with a cementitious
matrix doped with carbon black particles only, termed CB-
(a) 500 μm
only specimens.
CB-Only Specimens
Figure 4 illustrates the fabrication process of a CB-only
specimen. The required levels of carbon black loadings were
weighed and mixed in a high shear mixer with the required
amount of water needed for a 0.45 water-to-cement (w/c)
ratio. Carbon black particles were mixed in water for 5 min in
a blender, and then cement was added to the carbon black–
water solution and mixed for 2 min in a commercial-grade
(b) 500 μm mixer at the highest speed. After initial mixing, 6 ml of plasti-
cizer was added and hand mixed. Specimens were then cast in
molds of dimensions 5.1 5.1 5.1 cm3 and vibrated/
Figure 3. Carbon black particles: (a) before ball milling; and (b) after compacted to eliminate air voids. Two sets of copper mesh
24 h of ball milling.
Water Cement
Carbon
black particles
Plasticizer
1. Disperse carbon black particles 2. Mix cement

in water (high shear mixing) (high shear mixing)
3. Mix plasticizer
(hand mix)
6. Dry and cure 5. Embed electrodes 4. Pour into molds
Figure 4. Fabrication process of CB-only specimens.
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TABLE 1
Carbon black (CB)–only specimens
Specimen type (#) Water (ml) CB (g) Cement (g) %CB (volume %)
1 293 0 651 0
2 292 1.65 649 0.18
3 291 3.30 647 0.36
4 290 5.00 645 0.54
5 289 6.65 643 0.71
6 286 9.00 630 0.96
7 286 12.0 630 1.25
8 286 15.0 630 1.60
electrodes were inserted in each poured specimen. The speci- while the w/c ratio remained constant for each specimen,
mens were covered with a damp cloth and allowed to cure additional water was needed due to water absorption by
overnight before being demolded and placed in a curing room carbon black particles.
at 100% relative humidity and 22 °C for seven days. The spec-
imens were then air cured for four days to let water evaporate. SEBS-CB Specimens
Figure 4 (step 6) shows a completed CB-only specimen. Figure 5 illustrates the fabrication process of an SEBS-CB
Table 1 lists all the different CB-only specimen types. specimen. The SEBS polymer was first dissolved in toluene in
Mixes were designed for constant volumes of 164 cm3 to the ratio of 60 g of SEBS per 500 ml of toluene. The amount
produce 25% extra material. Three specimens per type were of SEBS used in the fabrication of SEBS-CB specimens was
fabricated and tested, for a total of 24 specimens. Note that governed by the quantity of carbon black to be added to
Cement
SEBS Water
copolymer
Carbon
black particles
Toluene
Sodium lauryl
sulphate
1. Dissolve SEBS 2. Disperse carbon 3. Mix cement

in toluene black particles (high shear mixing)
(high shear mixing)
Plasticizer
Conductive paint
4. Mix conductive paint
(high shear mixing)
7. Dry and cure 6. Embed electrodes 5. Pour into molds
Figure 5. Fabrication process of SEBS-CB specimens.

TABLE 2
Styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene carbon black (SEBS-CB) specimens
Specimen type (#) Water (ml) CB (g) SEBS (ml) Cement (g) %CB (volume %)
1 261 0 15 585.9 0
2 261 1.65 15 585.9 0.18
3 261 3.30 15 585.9 0.36
4 261 5.00 15 585.9 0.54
5 261 6.65 15 585.9 0.71
6 234 9.00 30 519.8 0.96
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Figure 6. Thermal images of: (a) electrically unloaded specimen (typical); (b) electrically loaded specimen (1.60% CB-only); (c) electrically
loaded specimen (0.71% SEBS-CB); and (d) electrically loaded specimen with bad carbon black dispersion.
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ensure that the SEBS solution would not be saturated by loading, measured using an inductance-capacitance-resistance
carbon black particles. A mass of 3.41 g of SEBS was used for (LCR) bridge at 100 kHz. These measurements were used to
carbon black loadings up to 0.71% volume, while a mass of obtain the percolation curves. The resistance was also
11.37 g of SEBS was used for carbon black loadings greater measured to determine the specimens’ sensitivity with respect
than 0.71% volume to prevent saturation of carbon black to strain to verify and compare the electrical properties of
within the SEBS solution. Carbon black particles were added specimens as a function of the carbon black loading. Strain
to the SEBS solution in the desired loading amount before the was applied on each specimen using a universal testing
mixture was mixed at high shear for 3 min. A neat cement machine type (50 kN capacity), and loaded in steps of 40 μ
paste mix was prepared by combining cement and water at a at a rate of 0.0127 mm/s up to 400 μ, and then unloaded
0.45 w/c ratio mixed for 2 min in a commercial-grade mixer at using the same steps and rate. Figure 7 shows the strain test
the highest speed. After, the SEBS-CB conductive paint was configuration.
incorporated in the neat cement paste with 0.1 g of sodium
lauryl sulphate per 131 cm3 of materials (volume of one
specimen), which is a surfactant used to disperse the petro-
leum-based conductive paint with water, and mixed for two
additional minutes in the commercial-grade mixer. The speci-
mens were then poured into molds of dimensions 5.1 5.1
5.1 cm3 and vibrated/compacted to eliminate air voids. Two
sets of copper mesh electrodes were inserted in each poured
specimen. The specimens were covered with a damp cloth
and allowed to cure overnight before being demoulded and
placed in a curing room at 100% relative humidity and 22 °C
for seven days. The specimens were air cured for four days to
develop polymer microstructure and to let water evaporate.
Figure 5 (step 7) shows a completed SEBS-CB specimen.
Table 2 lists all the different SEBS-CB specimen types.
Three specimens per type were fabricated and tested, for a
total of 18 specimens. Only loadings up to 0.96% carbon
black were considered, because it was found that specimens
with 1.25% carbon black loadings and beyond were difficult to
fabricate due to the poor workability of the mix, resulting in
(a)
heterogeneous dispersions.
Measurements
The quality of dispersion in each specimen was inspected
using a thermal imaging camera that captured images at
approximately 1 Hz. Specimens were loaded with an alter-
nating current voltage of 60 V. Thermal images were used to
visually assess the distribution of carbon black particles, which
appeared in the images as bright pigments. Figure 6 shows
thermal images of typical specimens. Figure 6a is an electri-
cally unloaded specimen, where the cementitious block shows
as a black cube. Figures 6b and 6c are examples of well-
dispersed specimens containing high levels of carbon black
particles. Figure 6d shows an example of a badly dispersed
specimen for which the carbon black particles sank and
agglomerated at the bottom. Any specimen identified as badly
dispersed was discarded and refabricated. Note that it is antic-
ipated that a proper fabrication methodology for creating
large-scale SEBS-CB cementitious components would be (b)
developed prior to field deployment, where on-site quality
control would not be necessary. Figure 7. Experimental configuration: (a) cementitious specimen
The resistance of each specimen was measured to deter- installed in the universal testing machine; and (b) a close-up of the
mine the change of resistivity as a function of the carbon black cementitious specimens.

The measured sensitivity of the specimens was bench-

marked against a theoretical electromechanical model.
105
Consider a cementitious specimen with two embedded elec- CB-only
trodes of embedded width b and height h, spaced by a SEBS-CB
distance L, subjected to a uniaxial strain (perpendicular to the
Resistivity, ρ (Ω⋅cm)
electrodes), provoking a change in the electrode distance L.
The specimen can be modeled as a resistor of resistance R:
104
L
(1) R=ρ
A
where

is the resistivity of the material, and
A = d w is the cross-sectional area of the electrodes
103
embedded over a depth d and width w.
0 0.5 1 1.5
Assuming small strain, taking the finite difference of Carbon black %
Equation 1 yields:
ΔR Δρ ΔL ΔA Δρ Figure 8. Resistivity
versus carbon black percentage for CB-only and
(2) = + − = + (1 + 2v) ε SEBS-CB specimens.
R ρ L A ρ
with percolation to approximately 7100 ·cm after percolation,
while the average resistivity of CB-only specimens drops from
ΔL
(3) ε= approximately 21 000 ·cm before percolation to approxi-
L mately 950 ·cm after percolation. Thus, percolated SEBS-
where CB specimens exhibit a resistivity,
, that is approximately
ν is the Poisson’s ratio of the material, and 67% of the unpercolated CB-only specimens, but approxi-
is the axial strain. mately 7.5 higher than the percolated CB-only specimens.
This apparent vertical shift in the percolation curve is due to
Using Equation 2, an expression for the gauge factor can the insulating nature of the polymer.
be obtained by Equation 4:
⎛ Δρ ⎞ Strain Sensitivity
⎛ ΔR ⎞
⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ The results of the strain sensitivity tests are plotted in
(4) ⎝ R ⎠ ⎝ ρ ⎠
λ= = (1 + 2v ) + Figures 9 (SEBS-CB specimens) and 10 (CB-only
ε ε
specimens). The slope of the linear fit is the gauge factor
The first term in Equation 4 represents the change in
resistance due to the change in the specimen’s geometry,
while the second term represents the piezoresistive effect. 0
Results and Discussion

Using the methodology previously described, the percolation
Resistance, Δ R/R (%)
thresholds and strain sensitivity of the SEBS-CB and CB-only —0.5

specimens were obtained and compared. Results are
presented and discussed in the following sections.
—1
Percolation Thresholds
The percolation curve for the SEBS-CB specimens is SEBS-CB 0.18%
compared against that of the CB-only specimens in Figure 8. SEBS-CB 0.36%
The SEBS-CB specimens show a change in the electric phase SEBS-CB 0.54%
—1.5 SEBS-CB 0.71%
between 0.36 and 0.71% carbon black, while the change in the
electric phase of the CB-only specimens occurs between 0.71 0 100 200 300 400
and 1.25%. It can be concluded that the addition of SEBS Strain (με)
resulted in a reduction of the percolation threshold by approx-
imately 50%. The average resistivity of the SEBS-CB speci- Figure 9. Percentage change in resistance versus carbon black
mens drops from approximately 81 000 ·cm before loading for carbon black with SEBS specimens.
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yielding Equation 1 becomes weak. The modeling of the
0 nonlinearities in the SEBS-CB specimens is left to future
work. The reader interested in the effects of aggregates on the
linearity of cementitious sensors is referred to other work
–1
(D’Alessandro et al. 2015a).
Resistance, Δ R/R (%)
–2 Conclusion
In this paper, the authors have investigated a novel cementi-
–3 tious composite mix that could be used for accelerating NDE
of large-scale cementitious components, such as airport pave-
CB 0.54%
ments, nuclear confinement structures, and critical concrete
–4 CB 0.71% components such as specialized connections and retrofits.
CB 0.96%
CB 1.25%
Preliminary results demonstrated that utilizing a smart
–5 concrete substantially facilitated eddy current–based inspec-
0 100 200 300 400 tions because of the electrically conductive nature of the mix.
Strain (με) While such a mix utilized carbon black filler to provide an
inexpensive solution that would also be easy to produce at
Figure 10. Percentage change in resistance versus carbon black
large scales, the amount of carbon black required for the
loading for CB-only specimens. material to electrically percolate is high and could lead to a
decrease in the material’s mechanical properties. The authors
proposed to utilize a block copolymer, SEBS, to facilitate the
(Equation 4). The gauge factor results are assembled in creation of a conductive chain in the composite, therefore
Table 3. The optimal gauge factor for CB-only is obtained at decreasing the requisite amount of carbon black particles
0.96% carbon black, while the optimal gauge factor for SEBS- necessary to achieve electrical percolation.
CB is obtained at 0.54% carbon black loading. These results Several carbon black–based specimens were fabricated,
agree with those from the percolation threshold study some containing SEBS (SEBS-CB specimens) and others
discussed in the last subsection. However, the optimal gauge without (CB-only specimens). The electrical resistance of
factor for the SEBS-CB specimens is significantly lower than each specimen was measured, and the resistivity computed
that of the CB-only specimens, which yielded a gauge factor and plotted versus the carbon black loading to obtain percola-
4.7 higher ( = 178 for CB-only versus = 38 for SEBS- tion curves. A comparison of the percolation curves showed
CB). Note that the gauge factors drop significantly after that the utilization of SEBS resulted in a reduction of the
percolation, which is attributed to the loss of the piezoresis- percolation threshold by approximately 50%, yet yielding
tive effect (Equation 4). percolated specimens that were 7.5 more resistive than the
A closer inspection of results shows that the strain sensi- percolated CB-only specimens, but with a gain of 67% on the
tivity of CB-only specimens exhibit a good linearity, except for resistivity of unpercolated CB-only specimens. This decrease
the 0.96% loading at low levels of strain. Such nonlinearity in electrical performance is attributed to the insulating nature
can be attributed to the piezoresistive effect being more of SEBS. A study on the strain sensitivity of the composites
important at low strain levels around the percolation showed that a concentration of 0.54% of carbon black
threshold. On the other hand, the SEBS-CB specimens resulted in an optimal gauge factor of 38 for SEBS-CB speci-
exhibit higher levels of nonlinearities. This electrical behavior mens, while this concentration was 0.86% for CB-only speci-
could be partly attributed to the piezoresistive effect, and mens, yet yielding a gauge factor of 178. These results
more importantly to the presence of the polymer that results confirmed the location of the percolation thresholds from the
in a nonnegligible capacitance, whereas the assumption study of the percolation curves. However, the optimal gauge
factor of the CB-only specimens was higher than that of the
SEBS-CB specimens by a factor of 4.7. An investigation of the
TABLE 3
Experimental gauge factors linearity of the specimens showed that SEBS-CB specimens
were significantly nonlinear compared with CB-only. This
Carbon black % SEBS-CB CB-only
behavior was attributed to the piezoresistive effect at low
0.18 25.8 –
0.36 30.8 –
levels of strain and the nonnegligible participation of the
0.54 38 47.3
material’s capacitance.
0.71 17.7 82.5 Empowering NDE using smart concrete has substantial
0.96 – 178 potential benefits, including the detection of discontinuities
1.25 – 17 located inside a superstructure, which are currently difficult to
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Electrical Resistance Tomography–Based Sensing

Skin with Internal Electrodes for Crack Detection in
Large Structures
by Reza Rashetnia*†, Omar Khalaf Alla†, Guillermo Gonzalez-Berrios‡, Aku Seppänen§, and Mohammad Pour-Ghaz†
ABSTRACT also indicate that in the absence of internal elec-

This paper outlines the extension of an electrical trodes, detecting the cracking pattern in the large
resistance tomography (ERT)–based sensing skin sensing skin was not feasible.
technology for detecting cracking patterns in full- KEYWORDS: crack detection, electrical resistance
scale reinforced concrete structural elements. The tomography, large-area sensor, reinforced concrete
sensing skin consists of a thin layer of conductive damage detection, sensing skin, structural health
film that is applied to the surface of a structure. monitoring
Cracking results in a local reduction of electrical
Introduction
conductivity of the sensing skin, enabling
It is well known that, in many structural elements, cracking
detection of cracking with ERT. As the size of the
may be a precursor of an imminent failure, and therefore, in
sensing skin increases, however, the resolution of recent years, significant efforts have been made in developing
sensing skin for detecting small cracks diminishes. large-area sensors for detecting and quantifying cracking in
In the present paper, we overcome this limitation structural elements. These efforts have resulted in the devel-
opment of several technologies (see, for example, Glisic and
of sensing skin with the use of internal electrodes.
Inaudi 2008 and Laflamme et al. 2012). A class of these tech-
We applied a sensing skin equipped with four nologies, which was perhaps first proposed in another work
internal electrodes to a reinforced concrete beam (Hou et al. 2007), is commonly referred to as sensing skin.
with overall dimensions of 4.5 m 1.0 m 0.3 m, The sensing skin consists of a layer, or multiple laminated
layers, of electrically conductive materials. The sensing skin
where the 4.0 m 1.0 m surface of the beam was
materials are engineered so that their electrical conductivity
equipped with the sensing skin. Cracking was locally changes in response to a local stimulus; for example,
induced in the beam using four-point bending. The due to cracking, mechanical strain, or contact with certain
large-area sensing skin successfully detected ions. The change in spatial conductivity distribution is then
detected, localized, and quantified using electrical resistance
cracking at different stages of loading. The results
tomography (ERT) (Loh et al. 2007; Loh et al. 2008; Pyo
et al. 2011; Baltopoulos et al. 2012; Loyola et al. 2013;
* Instrotek Inc., 5908 Triangle Dr., Raleigh, NC 27617; email: Tallman et al. 2014; Hallaji and Pour-Ghaz 2014; Hallaji et al.
reza@instrotek.com
† Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, 2014; Seppänen 2017). Another class of sensing skin has been
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina developed using polymer-based piezoelectric paints to detect
‡ Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, fatigue cracking of the structures (Zhang 2006).
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
§ Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland, PO Box While sensing skin offers a technique for detecting local-
1627, FI-70211, Kuopio, Finland ized cracking, it has been shown that as the size of the sensing

x ert-based sensing skin
skin increases, the minimum detectable crack length increases noise, the observation model for the ERT measurement is
(Rashetnia et al. 2017b). In other words, there is a loss of written as
“resolution” with increasing the size of sensing skin
(Rashetnia et al. 2017b). In the present paper, the authors (6) V = U (σ ) + n
propose the use of internal electrodes to overcome this loss of
sensitivity. We apply a sensing skin equipped with internal where
electrodes to a full-scale 4.5 m 1.0 m 0.3 m reinforced V RM is a vector of measured electrode potentials,
concrete beam and then monitor the cracking of the beam U is the FEM-based mapping between spatially discretized
under four-point bending. conductivity RN and the electrode potentials, and
n RM is the measurement noise.
Electrical Resistance Tomography
In ERT, a set of electrodes are installed on the boundary of an Here, M denotes the total number of potential measure-
object (target). These electrodes are used for pairwise current ments, and N is the number of discrete conductivity values.
injections, and potential measurements corresponding to each To solve the ERT inverse problem, multiple techniques
of the current injections. These measurements are then used have been developed. Among those is difference imaging,
to reconstruct the conductivity distribution within the target. where the change of a time-varying conductivity within the
The reconstruction of spatial conductivity distribution in target is estimated on the basis of the difference in ERT meas-
ERT is an inverse problem. urements before and after the change. The difference imaging,
The most accurate known forward model associated with therefore, utilizes both the reference measurements, Vref, on
the ERT inverse problem is the complete electrode model sensing skin (before cracking), ref, and the measurements
(CEM), which consists of a partial differential equation after cracking, V, over the sensing skin, fin.
(Cheng et al. 1989; Somersalo et al. 1992): For ERT measurements modeled by Equation 6, an
approximate linearized observation model for the difference
(1) ∇. (σ∇u) = 0, x ∈ Ω data V = V – Vref is written as:
subjected to the boundary conditions of (7) δV ≈ Jδσ + δn

du
(2) u + ξiσ = Ui , x ∈ ei , i = 1,..., L where
dn = fin – ref is the change of the conductivity,
du
J is the jacobian matrix of the mapping U = U() evaluated
(3) ∫ ei σ dS = Ii , i = 1,..., L at some linearization point 0, and
dn
n is the noise difference between two sets of measurements.
du L
(4) σ = 0, x ∈ ∂Ω \ ∪ ei Given Equation 7, the conductivity change, , can
dn i=1
obtained as:
where
is the sensing skin area and is its boundary,
(8)
δσ
{
δσ = arg min δV − Jδσ + P (δσ )
2
}
is the electrical conductivity,
u is the electrical potential, where P() is a tikhonov-based regularization functional
n– is the outward unit normal, potential related to the change of the conductivity (Kaipio
ei is the surface area under the ith electrode, and, and Somersalo 2005; Hallaji 2014).
i, Ui, and, Ii respectively, are the contact impedance,
electric potential, and total current corresponding to ei. Experimental Setup and Measurements
A reinforced concrete beam with a length of 4.4 m, a height
Further, the charge conservation law must be satisfied, and of 0.9 m, and a width of 0.3 m was instrumented with the
the potential reference level needs to be fixed: sensing skin. The reinforcement details and dimensions
of the beam are shown in Figure 1. The dimensions and
L L reinforcement details of the beam were borrowed from the
(5) ∑ Il = 0, ∑ Ul = 0
l=1 l =1 work of other researchers (Aguilar et al. 2002).
The reinforced concrete beam was tested in four-point
For arbitrary geometries, the finite element method bending using a simply supported test setup. The supports
(FEM) is used to approximate the solution of the forward were placed 0.4 m away from the edge of the beam on an
model (Vauhkonen et al. 1999; Vauhkonen 2004). Using the A-shaped steel frame. The load was applied using four 60 000 kg
finite element approximation and considering an additive (60 ton) hydraulic jacks (two hydraulic jacks at each
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0.90 m 1.80 m 0.90 m
∅10@150 ∅10@150 2∅25
2∅25
0.90 m
3∅25
3∅25
6∅25 0.30 m
3.60 m
4.40 m
Figure 1. Schematic illustration of reinforcement details and dimensions of the reinforced concrete beam that was instrumented with sensing skin.
Hydraulic jack Hydraulic jack

Load cell Load cell
Synthetic rubber pad Loading beam Loading beam
Concrete beam Synthetic
rubber pad
0.90 m
Concrete beam
Steel support
1.00 m
Pin 4.40 m Roller
Concrete Concrete
floor floor
(a) (b)
Figure 2. Schematic illustration of the test setup: (a) elevation; (b) cross-section.
loading point). At each loading point, the load was trans- measurement, 3.0 mA DC electrical current was used. The
ferred to the concrete beam through a steel I-beam. Figure resolution of the potential measurement was 1 10–8 V. All
2 shows the schematic view of test setup in elevation and its ERT computations were carried out using electrical imped-
cross section. A photograph of the test setup is shown in ance tomography and diffuse tomography reconstruction
Figure 3. (Adler and Lionheart 2006; Vauhkonen et al. 2001).
Two load cells were used to measure the applied load The sensing skin was made of commercially available elec-
from the hydraulic jacks to the loading beam. String poten- trically conductive copper paint. The paint was applied to the
tiometers were used to measure the vertical deflection of the surfaces of the reinforced concrete beam by hand spraying;
beam specimen at the midspan. The load was applied monot- measures were taken to apply the paint as uniformly as
onically to the beam in 45 kN increments. At each load incre- possible. A total of 60 electrodes, made of copper foil, were
ment, ERT measurements were performed on the sensing used in this work (with a rectangular shape of 0.64 cm
skin. 1.0 cm). Fifty-six electrodes were installed at the boundaries
The ERT measurements were carried out using an equip- of the sensing skin, and four internal electrodes were used.
ment set described by other authors (Hallaji 2014). In all Similar to the boundary electrodes, the internal electrodes

Figure 3. Photograph of the reinforced concrete beam instrumented with sensing skin.
were made of copper foil and were surface mounted and the Results
wires were externally routed (Figure 3). The internal elec- Figure 4 shows a plot of an applied load to the reinforced
trodes were located on the centerline of the beam in a vertical concrete beam versus the midspan deflection of the beam.
direction and were equally spaced in the horizontal direction. The five load increments at which ERT measurements were
The location and the number of internal electrodes were performed are shown on the graph. The results corresponding
decided based on the computational experiments and findings to the five load levels of 180 kN, 404 kN, 580 kN, 713 kN,
reported in previous work (Rashetnia 2017a). and 800 kN are reported in Figures 5, 6, and 7. For each step,
a photograph of the sensing skin is shown in Figure 5, where
the cracks are highlighted in black to aid visualization. The
corresponding ERT reconstruction for each load level is
shown in Figure 6. Figure 7 presents corresponding ERT
1000 reconstructions to each stage of loading without the use of
internal electrodes.
Level 5: 800 kN
800 Figure 5a shows a photograph of the beam at load level 1
Level 4: 713 kN (180 kN). At this load level, no cracking was visually
Shear (kN)
600 Level 3: 580 kN observed. The ERT reconstruction presented in Figure 6a did
not reveal any cracking, while slight changes in conductivity
400 Level 2: 404 kN
are detected. While these conductivity changes may be caused
Level 1: 180 kN by the mechanical strain of the sensing skin, the value of the
200
strain cannot be quantitatively inferred from the results due to
the inherent qualitative nature of the difference imaging and
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 the lack of a quantitative relationship between conductivity
Midspan deflection (mm) change and strain for the sensing skin. Similarly, the sensing
skin without internal electrodes (Figure 7a) does not reveal
Figure 4. Load versus midspan displacement graph of the reinforced any cracking pattern.
concrete beam and the five load levels at which electrical resistance Figures 5b, 6b, and 7b show photographs and ERT recon-
tomography measurements were performed. structions of the sensing skin at load level 2 (404 kN). At this
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Figure 5. Photographs of the sensing skin with highlighted cracks at the different load levels shown in Figure 4: (a) 180 kN; (b) 404 kN;
(c) 580 kN; (d) 713 kN; and (e) 800 kN.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
56 23 Δσ
0
55 24
57 58 59 60 —0.005
54 25
53 26 —0.01
52 27
—0.015
(a) 51 28
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 —0.02
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
56 23 Δσ 0
55 24
57 58 59 60 —0.005
54 25
53 26 —0.01
52 27 —0.015
(b) 51 28 —0.02
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
56 23 Δσ 0
55 24
57 58 59 60 —0.005
54 25
53 26 —0.01
52 27 —0.015
(c) 51 28 —0.02
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
56 23 Δσ
0
55 24
57 58 59 60 —0.005
54 25
53 26 —0.01
52 27 —0.015
(d) 51 28
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 —0.02
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
56 23 Δσ
0
55 24
57 58 59 60 —0.005
54 25
53 26 —0.01
52 27 —0.015
(e) 51 28
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 —0.02
Figure 6. Electrical resistance tomography reconstruction sensing skin (difference imaging) at different load levels: (a) 180 kN; (b) 404 kN;
(c) 580 kN; (d) 713 kN; and (e) 800 kN. The reconstructions correspond to the photographs shown in Figure 5.
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Δσ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 0
56 23
55 24 —0.005
54 25
—0.01
53 26
52 27 —0.015
(a) 51 28
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 —0.02
Δσ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 0
56 23
55 24 —0.005
54 25 —0.01
53 26
52 27 —0.015
(b) 51 28 —0.02
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29
Δσ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 0
56 23
55 24 —0.005
54 25 —0.01
53 26
52 27 —0.015
(c) 51 28 —0.02
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29
Δσ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 0
56 23
55 24 —0.005
54 25
—0.01
53 26
52 27 —0.015
(d) 51 28
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 —0.02
Δσ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 0
56 23
55 24 —0.005
54 25
—0.01
53 26
52 27 —0.015
(e) 51 28
50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 —0.02
Figure 7. Electrical resistance tomography reconstruction sensing skin without internal electrodes (difference imaging) at different load levels:
(a) 180 kN; (b) 404 kN; (c) 580 kN; (d) 713 kN; and (e) 800 kN. The reconstructions correspond to the photographs shown in Figure 5.

stage, two large diagonal cracks and a number of flexural significantly increases the computational cost, especially due
cracks were observed (Figure 5b). It should be noted that the to the presence of internal electrodes.
cracks are highlighted in the photograph but the width of To the best of our assessment, the largest sensing skin
cracks at this stage was less than 100 μm and could be reported in literature prior to the present work had a total area
observed only by very close visual examination. The ERT of approximately 1000 cm2, or 0.10 m2 (Hallaji et al. 2014).
reconstructions of the sensing skin at this stage (Figure 6b) The sensing skin presented herein has a total area of 3.96 m2,
show a very slight electrical conductivity decrease at the loca- improving approximately 40 fold and making sensing skin a
tions corresponding to those of the diagonal cracks. The practical solution for full-scale monitoring of structural
sensing skin without internal electrodes was not able to detect elements. The sensing skin technology is also low-cost; this
any changes of conductivity (Figure 7b). makes it an attractive technology for practical applications.
In load level 3 (580 kN), Figures 5c shows the same The authors would like to also add that in the presence of
cracking pattern as load level 2 with a negligible propagation sufficient information about the most probable location of
of flexural cracks. However, the cracks were wider at this load damage, it may be feasible to use several small sensing skins to
level. The ERT reconstruction in Figure 6c shows a larger detect damage instead of using one large sensing skin.
reduction in conductivity in the cracked regions of the beam However, in the absence of such information, the use of
as compared to the reconstruction of load level 2 (Figure 6b). multiple sensing skins will not be a successful strategy; the
At this stage, diagonal cracking and flexural cracks were latter approach also results in instrumentation and measure-
observed more clearly than the previous load level. However, ment difficulties.
Figure 7c shows that the sensing skin without internal elec- Despite the difficulties and the computational costs of
trodes still does not detect any electrical conductivity changes quantitative imaging, the authors believe that quantitative
over the beam. imaging is the most appropriate approach. Quantitative
With further increases to 713 kN and 800 kN in load imaging will also enable early detection of cracking, which
levels 4 and 5, respectively, the density of flexural cracks at the was not feasible in the present work with the use of qualitative
bottom fiber of the beam increases and diagonal shear cracks imaging. The computational effort in this study was
widen (Figures 5d and 5e). The corresponding ERT recon- performed using the high-performance computing facilities at
structions in Figures 6c and 6d also more clearly capture the NC State (with an estimated 512 GB of RAM and 32 cores of
diagonal shear cracks as well as the flexural cracks. Figures 7d CPU) and our reconstructions took several days. The
and 7e suggest that the sensing skin with no internal elec- research team is currently working toward improving the
trodes still does not detect cracks. It only detected slight resolution of the sensing skin by employing more sophisti-
changes of electrical conductivity over the widest region of cated computational methods.
diagonal cracking.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Discussion and Concluding Remarks The first author was supported by the 2015 American Society for Nonde-
structive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award, which is greatly acknowl-
In the present work we have used internal electrodes to edged. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
address the loss of sensitivity of sensing skin with increasing expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
size and have shown the feasibility of extending sensing skin reflect the views of ASNT.
to large full-scale sizes. The preliminary results presented
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ME TECHNICAL PAPER w
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Automatic Ultrasonic Testing Technique for AZ80

Magnesium Alloy Cartridges
by Xiongbing Li*, Duo Lyu*, Xuanrun Wang*, Peijun Ni†, Feng Chen‡, and Yongfeng Song*
ABSTRACT Introduction
In order to achieve accurate and automatic With excellent mechanical properties of low density, high
detection of the internal discontinuities in stability with size, good damping performance, and easy
processing, AZ80 wrought magnesium alloy is widely used in
magnesium alloy cartridges with variable thick- the aerospace, automotive, and military industries (Zhen et al.
nesses and curvatures, a robot-based automatic 2015; Jiang et al. 2015; Li et al. 2010). For example, the AZ80
ultrasonic detection system is designed. Kinematic magnesium alloy cartridge used in missiles is 20% to 25%
equations are used to develop a scanning path lighter than aluminum alloy without a decrease in strength.
However, there tend to be internal discontinuities such as
compensation algorithm for the ultrasonic trans- inclusions, cracks, and high-density segregation present in the
ducer. When combined with the theoretical drift AZ80 wrought magnesium alloy, which are introduced during
model to analyze the eccentric error of the the manufacturing process of extrusion and forging. These
magnesium alloy, the algorithm can effectively discontinuities can potentially affect the overall performance
and service security of the missile. Thus, it is necessary to test
reduce the negative effect of clamping eccentricity for internal discontinuities before AZ80 magnesium alloy
errors on ultrasonic echo signals. Ultrasonic C-scan cartridges are put into service.
experiments are conducted to quantitatively At present, industrial computed tomography technology is
evaluate artificial discontinuities in magnesium a good nondestructive technique for testing complex compo-
nents, but there are drawbacks, such as high cost and low effi-
alloy missile cartridges. The experimental results ciency. Radiographic testing (RT) is not only difficult to use
show that the amplitude of the ultrasonic signal due to the complex structure of the cartridges, but also has the
after path compensation can be increased by 6%, problems of high labor intensity and low testing efficiency.
and the relative errors between the measured Ultrasonic testing (UT) can be used as an effective means of
testing missile cartridges because of its adaptability and low
value and the theoretical value of the discontinuity cost (Meksen et al. 2010; Mayer et al. 2008; Lee et al. 2007).
size are no more than 5%. The technique can An ultrasonic multi-axis testing system with a portal frame
provide an effective tool for accurately evaluating is commonly applied for automatically evaluating internal
rotary components such as AZ80 magnesium alloy discontinuities (Li et al. 2010), but it cannot perform a full-
coverage scan of the magnesium alloy cartridge, which is a rotary
cartridges. component with variable curvature and thickness. Moreover, the
KEYWORDS: AZ80 magnesium alloy cartridge, testing efficiency and surface tracking accuracy are both low.
automatic detection, ultrasonic test, eccentric Eccentricity errors are probable in actual practice for many
error, error correction possible reasons, such as an alignment error between the three-
jaw chuck center and orbital center, the gap between the jaw slot
and the chuck housing, and/or the operator’s improper installa-
* Key Laboratory of Traffic Safety on Track (Central South University), tion (Alquraan et al. 2016). In these cases, the abnormal rotation
Ministry of Education; 22 South Shaoshan Road, Changsha, Hunan, mode will affect the ultrasonic signal and the C-scan image,
China
† Inner Mongolia Metallic Materials Research Institute, No. 199 Lingyun which results in a reduction in accuracy.
Road Ningbo, Zhejiang, China; +86 (0574) 87902279; There are few studies on the compensation of eccentric
nipeijun@vip.sina.com clamping in ultrasonic testing, but there is much research in
‡ Key Laboratory of Traffic Safety on Track (Central South University),
Ministry of Education; 22 South Shaoshan Road, Changsha, Hunan, the field of roundness tests and machine tool manufacturing.
China; +86 (0731) 82655315; fengyuan95@csu.edu.cn Other authors (Liu et al. 2004) designed a four-degree-of-
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freedom microstage that automatically compensates for the speed data acquisition card. The setup is based on the testing
X- and Y-axes eccentricity with two-translational displace- system used by other researchers (Morozov et al. 2016).
ment and two-rotational displacement. The microstage can The magnesium alloy cartridge can be clamped in a three-jaw
effectively compensate for the eccentricity, but the microstage chuck on a turntable driven by the servomotor. At the same
is difficult to design and manufacture. Other research (Tu time, the ultrasonic transducer can move with the industrial
et al. 2011) proposes an algorithm to estimate the eccentric robot along the cartridge’s outline when the turntable rotates.
error based on the ultrasonic detection data, and then corrects The transducer should be perpendicular to the surface of the
the eccentric image of the cased hole. The algorithm can cartridge to guarantee the quality of ultrasonic signals. During
correct the image easily and effectively, but it cannot obtain this process, the ultrasonic signal is acquired in real time when
the accurate ultrasonic signal. Other authors (Reinl et al. the transducer reaches every testing point; the spiral path can be
2011) presents a model-based offline concept to analyze, planned for ultrasonic scanning of the magnesium alloy cartridge
predict, and compensate the path deviation of the robot, but (Li et al. 2014). Furthermore, in order to ensure that the position
this concept is suitable only for machining applications and and posture of the ultrasonic transducer is always aligned with the
does not work for ultrasonic testing. cartridge surface during the testing, the kinematic equation
In this paper, dealing with the structural feature of magne- can be established according to the Denavit-Hartenberg
sium alloy cartridges and their evaluation difficulty, a 7-DOF parameters to plan the ultrasonic scanning path (Husty et al.
(degrees of freedom) ultrasonic automatic testing system with 2007; Yu et al. 2003; Singh et al. 2017; Wang et al. 2005).
high accuracy and efficiency is investigated. At the same time,
an eccentricity error recognition algorithm based on water Eccentricity Error Identification
paths is developed to correct the ultrasonic scanning path, so In order to obtain the clamping eccentricity error, the mathe-
the negative effect of the clamping eccentricity on the ultra- matical model is established as follows. In Figure 2, the coor-
sonic testing of the cartridge can be mostly reduced. dinate origin O denotes the center of the turntable; r and 0
are the offset and the initial angle of the cartridge at the initial
Ultrasonic Testing System position, respectively; and the center of the cartridge is
The automatic ultrasonic testing system used on the magne- Oc(x0,y0). The center of the ultrasonic transducer’s chip is
sium alloy cartridge is shown in Figure 1. It is composed of an fixed in the position of T(XT,0), lw is the water path, and R is
ultrasonic transducer, water tank, water circulation system, the outer radius of the cartridge at any height.
industrial robot, robot controller, independent rotary table, When the cartridge rotates on the turntable at the
servo drive, industrial personal computer with peripheral constant speed , the ultrasonic transducer should be kept
component interconnect bus motor controller, and high- stationary. Then the value of lw at each testing point can be
acquired according to the principle of ultrasonic distance
measuring. When there is an eccentric error, the center of the
cartridge Oc(x0,y0) will rotate around the center of turntable,
Motion and the value of lw will vary periodically.
control card Industrial Robot
Acquisition PC controller
trigger card
Robot arm
Y
trigger Pulser/
receiver
trigger receive
lw
Ultrasonic ϕ0
Driver transducer X
O r R P T
Water
tank Oc(x0, y0)
Transducer
Cartridge
Independent
rotation axis
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the automatic ultrasonic testing system. Figure 2. Diagram of the eccentric error when the cartridge is clamped.

x automatic ultrasonic testing for cartridges
The center of the cartridge can be expressed as interval of one degree. In this way, the A-wave signal of the 360
⎧⎪ x = r cos (ωt + ϕ ) circumferential points of the cartridge can be obtained. The first
0 0
(1) ⎨ time point of the A-wave signal is taken as the time point of the
⎩⎪ y0 = r sin (ωt + ϕ 0 ) transmitting time, and the time point that corresponds to the
peak of the front wall wave is taken as the receiving time; see
where Figure 3 (Cong and Gang 2012; D’Orazio et al. 2008). Ulti-
r is the distance between O and Oc and mately, the water path of the circular point can be expressed as
0 is the angle between OOc and the X-axis.
1
(5) lw = Δt × c w
2
Suppose the dynamic circle intersects the X-axis at point
P(xP,0), whose abscissa varies with the time, which can be where
expressed as cw is the sound velocity in water and
t is the time of the front wall wave.
(2) xP = x0 + R 2 − y02
The lw of 360 sampling points can be calculated according
where to Equation 5; thus, the actual deviation and initial angle can
R is the radius of the workpiece. be identified by the least squares fitting of curve to the theo-
retical model.
The relationship between the water path and its abscissa is
Eccentricity Error Correction
(3) lw = xT − xP The scanning path of the transducer can be corrected as
follows: first, the three reference coordinate systems, namely
Substituting Equations 1 and 2 into Equation 3, it can be the world coordinate system O1x1y1, the turntable coordinate
simplified into system O2x2y2, and the workpiece coordinate system O3x3y3,
are defined in Figure 4. The origin of the coordinate system
(4) lw = xT − r cos (ωt + ϕ 0 ) − R 2 − r 2 sin 2 (ωt + ϕ0 )
O1x1y1 is located at the center of the turntable and stays fixed,
the axis z1 is vertical in the upward direction, and the axis y1
points to the transducer chip center. The origin of the coordi-
When there is no eccentricity error, r and 0 are both nate system O2x2y2 is located at the clamping center of the
equal to 0, and the curve of lw – t is a horizontal line. jaws and rotates at a constant velocity. The initial position is
But when it does exist, the curve is similar to a sine function. coincident with the coordinate system O1x1y1. The origin of
Therefore, in order to measure the actual deviation and the the coordinate system O3x3y3 is located at the center of the
initial angle of the cartridge, the industrial robot should be cartridge bottom and stays fixed to the coordinate system
adjusted to guarantee the incidence angle of the ultrasonic trans-
ducer. Then the turntable starts to rotate, and the high-speed
data acquisition card collects and stores the A-wave data at each
z1
4
Front wall wave ω
3
z3
2
z2
Voltage (V)
1
0 y2
O1,2 y1
–1 y3
O3
–2 x2
–3 x3
–4
0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0
Time (μs) x1
Figure 3. Waveform of ultrasonic A-wave. Figure 4. The three reference coordinate systems.
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O2x2y2. As the clamping eccentricity, the origin O3 does not (8) ⎤
⎡ f t
x ⎤ ⎢ x( )
⎡ R + l s ωt ⎤
⎢ ( w) ( )
coincide with the center of turntable. ⎡ ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎥
The position transformation matrix 1A3 and the direction y ⎥ ⎢ f y (t ) ⎥ ⎢ (R + l ) c (ωt) ⎥
⎢ =⎢ ⎥ =⎢
transformation matrix 1B3 of the workpiece coordinate system ⎢
w
⎥
z ⎥ ⎢ f (t ) ⎥ ⎢ H − vt ⎥
⎢ ⎥ z
⎥
to the world coordinate system are shown in Equation 6: ⎣ 1 ⎦T ⎢ ⎢ ⎥⎦
⎢⎣ 1 ⎥⎦ T ⎣ 1 T
⎡ ⎡ f t ⎤
c (ωt ) –s (ωt) 0 c (ωt) Δx − s (ωt) Δy ⎤ ⎡ px ⎤ ⎢ px ( )
⎡ −s ωt ⎤
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎥ ⎢ ( ) ⎥
⎢ s (ωt) c (ωt) 0 s (ωt) Δx + c (ωt) Δy ⎥ ⎢ f t ⎥
A3 = ⎢ ⎢ py ⎥ p ( ) ⎢ −c (ωt ) ⎥
1
⎥ ⎢ ⎥ =⎢ y ⎥ =⎢ ⎥
⎢ Δz ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢ f pz ( t)
0 0 1 ⎢ pz ⎥ ⎢ 0 ⎥
⎢⎣ ⎥⎦ ⎢ ⎥
0 0 0 1
⎣ 1 ⎥⎦ T ⎢⎣ 1 ⎥⎦
⎢⎣ 1 ⎥⎦
T
⎡ 1 ⎤ T
R3 1 P3 ⎥
=⎢
(6) ⎢⎣ 0 1 ⎥⎦ Therefore, the corrected movement path and direction of
⎡ c (ωt ) –s (ωt) 0 0 ⎤ the transducer in the world coordinate system are shown in
⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎡ 1 ⎤ Equation 9:
1
B3 = ⎢ s (ωt) c (ωt) 0 0 ⎥ = ⎢ R3 0 ⎥
⎥
⎢ 0 0 1 0 ⎥ ⎣⎢ 0 1 ⎦⎥ ⎡ ⎤
⎢⎣ ⎡ x ⎤ ⎡ x ⎤ Δxc (ωt) − Δys (ωt )
0 0 0 1 ⎥⎦ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥
⎢ ⎥
=⎢ (
y ⎥ y ⎥ R + lw) + Δxs (ωt) + Δyc (ωt )
Vx = r cos (ϕ 0 ) ⎢ = 1 A3 × ⎢ ⎥
⎢ z ⎥ ⎢ z ⎥ ⎢ ( H − vt) + Δz ⎥
Vy = r sin (ϕ 0 ) ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
1 ⎦T ⎢ ⎥
⎣ 1 ⎦P ⎣
⎣ 1 ⎦P
(9)
where
⎡ px ⎤ ⎡ px ⎤ ⎡ ⎤
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ 0
t is the time, ⎢ py ⎥ ⎢ py ⎥ ⎢⎢ −1 ⎥
⎥
⎥ = B3 × ⎢ ⎥ =
1
⎢
is the angular velocity of the turntable, ⎢ pz ⎥ ⎢ pz ⎥ ⎢ 0 ⎥
⎢ 1 ⎥⎦
c(*) = cos(*), ⎢
⎣ 1 ⎥⎦ P ⎢
⎣ 1 ⎥⎦ T ⎣ P
s(*) = sin(*),
and r and 0 are defined with Equation 1.
Before correction, the transducer (fixed by the robot) Experiment and Analysis
moves along the cartridge’s outline. The uncorrected The experimental setup of this work is shown in Figure 5: an
movement path and direction of the transducer in the world ultrasonic pulse generator/receiver is employed to drive a
coordinate system are shown in Equation 7:
⎡ ⎡ ⎤
x ⎤ ⎢
0
⎥
⎢ ⎥
⎢ y ⎥ ⎢ (R + lw) ⎥
=⎢ ⎥
⎢ ( H − vt)
⎢ z ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎥
(7) ⎣ 1 ⎦ P ⎢⎣ 1 ⎥⎦
P
⎡ px ⎤
⎢ ⎥ ⎡ 0 ⎤
⎢ py ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
−1 Robot
⎢ ⎥ =⎢ ⎥
⎢ pz ⎥ ⎢ 0 ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢⎣ 1 ⎥⎦ Ultrasonic transducer
⎣ 1 ⎦P P
AZ80 magnesium
alloy cartridge
where
R and H are the radius and the height of the workpiece, Three-jaw chuck
respectively, and
v is the speed of the transducer.
The scanning path and direction in the workpiece coordi-

nate system can be expressed as Figure 5. The ultrasonic testing system.

transducer with a center frequency of 10 MHz; the robot is

used to hold the transducer; and the magnesium alloy
320°
cartridge is clamped by a three-jaw chuck. According to the
Sampling circumferential
280°
previously described technique, ultrasonic A-wave signals are
240°
acquired at every degree of the cartridge’s circumference, and
200°
angle (°)
360 values of lw can be obtained.
According to the technique, the measured values of the 160°
eccentricity error can be acquired by fitting curve lw – t to the 120°
theoretical model. The fitting result is shown in Figure 6 and 80°
Table 1. 40°
The A-wave signals acquired before correction at the 0°
angles of 0°, 40°, 80°, 120°, 160°, 200°, 240°, 280°, and 320° 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5
are shown in Figure 7a, which shows that the position of the (a) Time (μs)
front wall wave drifts regularly because of clamping eccen-
tricity error. After the error is obtained, the scanning path of
320°
Sampling circumferential
the transducer is redesigned and corrected according to the
correction technique described previously. The new A-wave 280°
signals are shown in Figure 7b. 240°
angle (°)
The ultrasonic C-scanning experiment is carried out on 200°
the magnesium alloy cartridge. In this experiment, three flat- 160°
bottom hole discontinuities are machined by electron 120°
discharge machining on the inner surface of the cartridge, as 80°
shown in Figure 8. The diameters of the three holes are 2.5, 2, 40°
and 1.5 mm, and their depths are all 2 mm. Due to the 0°
C-scanning testing mechanism, a flat-bottom hole in the 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5
cartridge will be stretched along the circumferential surface as (b) Time (μs)
Figure 7. The location of the front wall waves at different angles:

(a) before correction; and (b) after correction.
74.54
Actual values
Fitted values
74.52
lw (mm)
74.50
74.48
74.46
74.44
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sampling angles (radius)
3
2
Figure 6. Fitting result of lw – t samples. 1
TABLE 1
Results of the eccentricity error
Number Eccentricity error
r/mm 0/°
1 0.1011 33.8102
2 0.0929 34.6102
3 0.0996 34.7598
average 0.0978 34.3934 Figure 8. The model of the magnesium alloy cartridge with flat-
bottom holes.
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0 5 0 5
1 4 1 4
2 2
3 3
3 3
2 2
4 4
1 1
5 5
(a) 6 0 (b) 6 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Figure 9. C-scan images of the second flat-bottom hole: (a) before correction; and (b) after correction.
TABLE 2
The comparitive quantitative analysis of C-scanning results of defects before and after correction
Number a/mm a1/mm Error/% a2/mm Error/% v1/v v2/v
1 3.43 3.69 7.58 3.48 1.46 1.15 1.22
2 2.74 3.01 9.85 2.86 4.38 0.92 0.95
3 2.06 2.19 6.31 2.11 2.43 0.60 0.62
it is projected onto the outer surface. So, the shape of the flat- Two C-scan images of the second flat-bottom hole are shown
bottom hole in the C-scan image will be an ellipse, and it will in Figure 9. The quantitative analysis of ultrasonic evaluation
be consistent regardless of the location of the discontinuity. results for all three discontinuities are compared in Table 2,
For example, consider the hole with a 2 mm diameter. The where a, a1, and a2 are the ideal values, and the measured
theoretical dimensions of the discontinuity in the C-scan values before and after correction of the long axis, and v1 and
image are v2 are peak values of the discontinuity’s center, respectively. It
can be seen from Figure 9 and Table 2 that the signal ampli-
⎧ R tude of the discontinuity is improved after correction, which
⎪ a ≈ 2 × D = 2.74 mm
(10) ⎨ R1 results in better ultrasonic evaluation accuracy, and the relative
⎪
⎩ b ≈ D = 2 mm error between the measured value and the theoretical value of
the long axis of elliptical discontinuities is less than 5%.
where
a and b denote the theoretical lengths of the long axis and Conclusions
the short axis of the ellipse, respectively, A 7-DOF automatic ultrasonic evaluation system for AZ80
R1 is the radius of the inner ring of the cartridge, and magnesium alloy cartridges that can perform total testing with
R2 is the outer radius. high accuracy and efficiency is designed in this paper. An
identification and correction algorithm for the clamping
However, due to the abnormal rotation model caused by eccentricity error is proposed. By the inverse solution of the
the eccentricity error, the ultrasonic echo signal of the discon- kinematics equation of the 7-DOF testing system, the ultra-
tinuity will be greatly weakened, and the flat-bottom holes will sonic scanning path is corrected, which can mostly elimi-
be stretched more or shortened in the C-scan image relative nate the negative influence of the eccentricity error. The
to the theoretical situation. experimental results show that the imaging quality and the
When the transducer moves along the corrected path and discontinuity sizing accuracy are greatly improved, and the
the uncorrected path given in Equation 9 and Equation 7, proposed technique provides an effective tool for accurately
respectively, the amplitude of the discontinuity wave is evaluating rotary components such as AZ80 magnesium
calculated at each testing position to create C-scan images. alloy cartridges.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Li, Ying-Ju, Tian-jiao Luo, and Yuan-sheng Yang, 2010, “Effects of Trace
Element and Purification on Properties of AZ80 Magnesium Alloy,”
This work was supported by Graduate Students to Explore Innovative Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 20(s2), pp. 407–410;
Projects (Grant No. 2017zzts587), the National Natural Science Founda- doi: 10.1016/S1003-6326(10)60507-9 .
tion of China (Grant Nos. 51575541, 51711530231), and State Key Labo-
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OCTOBER 2018

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1300 NDT in Houston, Texas

ASNT ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1048

FELLOWSHIP AWARD PAPERS

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1405 Electrical Resistance Tomography–

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VOLUME 76 • NUMBER 10 ASN T MI SS I O N STAT E M E N T

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San Diego Denise L. McKay, outgoing Section chair. Saudi Arabian

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For more information on

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Peyman Aminpour is an experienced

2018 winner Georgia Institute of

Laurence J. Jacobs is the associate dean

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Simon Laflamme is an associate professor

Jin Yan is currently a Ph.D. student in the

2018 winner Portland State University will

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Gold, Silver, and Bronze Sections

ASNT Award Winners

Trey Gordon James Knowles Laurence J. Jacobs Katherine M. Scott

“Surface Sensing-Based Technique for Nondestructive

“Identification of Water Pipe Material Based on

An Chen Simon Laflamme Jin Yan

“Early Detection of ASR Deterioration in Laboratory Concrete

Thomas Schumacher Jason H. Ideker Ali Hafiz

Salvatore Salamone Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou

Advancement of Active Military and

This year’s award winners will be recognized at the ASNT Annual

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Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship George L. Pherigo Tutorial Citation

Lester/Mehl Honor Lecture

George C. Wheeler Excellence in Personnel Certification

Outstanding Paper Recognition, Materials Evaluation

Mohammed A. AbuFour Jennifer Anaya

Stefano Mariani Francesco Lanza di Thompson V. Nguyen

Outstanding Paper Recognition, RNDE

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Philip D. Johnson Honorary Member Young NDT Professional Recognition

Marvin W. Trimm Hossein Taheri

Robert C. McMaster Gold Medal Recognition 50-Year Member Recognition

Herbert Kaplan Jack C. Spanner, Sr.

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Chair of the Board President Vice President Secretary/Treasurer

Sebastian Z. Fernandes John J. Kinsey David H. Mitchell, Sr.

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