NDT Beyond Compliance

When: 17-19 October 2010
Where: Sebel Albert Park, 65 Queens Rd, Albert Park, see the Sebel Albert Park | Street View & Directions
Melbourne Victoria

Announcement – Call For Papers
AINDT’s twenty third National Conference; “NDT Beyond Compliance”, is scheduled for 17 to 19 October 2010 at the Sebel Albert Park, 65 Queens Road, Albert Park, in Melbourne’s Spring.
Unusually, but not uniquely, 12 months after our last annual conference on the Gold Coast this conference has been scheduled to raise the awareness of NDT and its benefits to a wide range of industrial organisations.
This two day conference will address the reduction in manufactured product compliance testing and the future of maintenance based NDT in a new decade.

Aim
The conference aims to look at the challenges for industry in applying NDT to risk based maintenance. It will provide an opportunity to expose the limitations of existing Standards, open up discussion on fitness for purpose based on historical data or fracture mechanics assessments.
It will provide an opportunity for industry to catch up with newer technologies so that they can improve the efficiency of their operations.
It will also provide an outlet for new research as well as provide practical workshops on selected technologies.

Background
With the decline in manufacturing in Australia NDT has moved from product compliance testing to asset integrity monitoring. Today NDT is applied to pressure vessels, pipelines, tanks, chemical reactors, bridges, power generators of all types, ships, planes, Defence materiel, buses, etc.
These are costly and complex pieces of infrastructure which need to be designed, built, operated, inspected, repaired and retested to the highest standards to ensure safe operation.
The demands on NDT and NDT technicians in this risk based maintenance environment are high.
In recent times failures and leaks of pressure equipment have proved to be significant safety and cost factors such that understanding the need for appropriate NDT surveillance is critical.In a country where much of infrastructure equipment is aging and plant life is pushed well beyond original design considerations the demands on NDT and NDT technicians are being pushed to the limits.
Can the information required for efficient maintenance be obtained with the high demand for production and plant availability leaving very limited time available for effective inspecti

Technical Focus
This Conference will focus on understanding the limitations of existing and emerging NDT techniques and the challenges they bring for Certification and Accreditation in the new decade of reduced compliance inspection.

• New and emerging NDT techniques, applications and limitations
• NDT in maintenance applications
• NDT Standards in Australia
• Defect detectability
• Continuous monitoring and assessment.
• Work shopping NDT equipment
• Training, qualification and certification
• Accreditation challenges
• NDT in failure analysis

CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are now welcome for the 23rd AINDT National Conference, NDT Beyond Compliance, in Melbourne 17 to 19 October, 2010.

An abstract of 100 words, outlining the content and
conclusions should be e-mailed to the Conference
secretariat at:
or register your interest and abstract on-line at: www.aindt.com.au/NDT Beyond Compliance All papers will be reviewed prior to final acceptance

Key Dates

Exhibition
Commercial organisations are encouraged to participate in an exhibition held in conjunction with the conference. Enquiries should be directed to Tracey Herbert at Ph: +61 3 9574 6144 Email:

Technical Committee

Who Should Attend

Engineers, Managers, Supervisors, Researchers, Consultants, Regulatory Authorities, Inspection Personnel.
From the following industries:

• Oil, Gas, Petro chemical, long distance piping
• Utilities: Electricity, Gas and Water
• Mineral processing industries: Alumina, Nickel, Steel,
• Gas and fluid transport, portable cylinders,
• Regulatory and Accreditation authorities,
• Welding contractors and suppliers,
• Non destructive testing equipment suppliers,
• Boiler and pressure equipment designers andmanufacturers,
• Universities and Research and Development organisations
• Legal/Management: Health and safety, Insurance, Risk assessment,
• Asset Management and Maintenance organisations in the
  Aerospace, Petrochemical, Mining, Power, Defence andother infrastructure industries,
• Standards and
• NDT Inspection companies.

Special sessions for discussion of particular technologies will be arranged in the keynote areas of the conference.
Proposed workshops include:

• Phased array ultrasonics
• Corrosion assessment
• Specifying NDT

• Materials Australia
• WTIA