The new version offers many more features and usability. The design gives access to multiple resources from one location, delivering results with a range of content including encyclopedia articles, related database articles, related Web sites, related Exhibitors and much more. Dynamic database queries to all other NDT.net databases make it self-maintaining and always up to date.

A new content management is another important change. A multi-editor or multi-author editing access is established, which now allows the community of NDT.net members to act as author of this NDT encyclopedia. The idea is to allow input "From (and to) the NDT Community", so called Wiki. A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki". A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing and searching information. In our "NDT Wiki" only NDT.net members (members of the forum) have permissions to sign-in, thus hopefully avoiding the vandalism problem.

Although we hope to be receiving a lot of community contributions, Rolf Diederichs and Ed Ginzel together with the editor advisory board will still continue to write new content and to monitor the quality by the community submitted content. This is the basis of the "reliable information continuously growing!"

For someone who wants to add content or to write comments to an existing encyclopedia term, perhaps submitted by a colleague, they can do this via a message form. So it can serve also as an discussion board or a collection of users opinions of pro can cons of a specific NDT topic.

Since the Encyclopedia will be continually updated we recommend not to save the material on your disk, come back and study online or just use it on demand.

If you have any questions or would like to help us,
by contributing information, or you notice an error e.g. bad link, etc.,
please send an Email to rd@ndt.net. Thank you! References:

1. NDT with Ultrasonics - Introduction to the Basic Principles ; Michael Berke, Krautkramer
2. Ultrasonic Inspection 2 - Training for Nondestructive Testing; E.A. Ginzel; Prometheus Press Canada.
3. Magnetic Particle Inspection 2 - Training for Nondestructive Testing; E.A. Ginzel; Prometheus Press Canada.
4. Principles of Penetrants; Carl Betz and Magnaflux Corporation.
5. Werkstoffprüfung mit Ultraschall J.Krautkrämer H. Krautkrämer; Springer Verlag
6. The Krautkrämer Handbook; Issued by Krautkrämer GmbH.
7. Non-destructive testing; Terminology - Part4: Terms used in ultrasonic testing; Trilingual version EN 1330-4 : 1994; DIN
8. British Standard Glossary of Terms used in non-destructive testing; Ultrasonic flaw detection; BS 3683 Part4 : 1985
9. Non-destructive testing; Glossary of Terms Section 2. Terms used in Acoustic Testing; AS 1929-1981 Standards accociation of Australia. New Zealand NDT Association
10. Nondestructive Testing Handbook, second edition: Volume 7, Ultrasonic Testing 1991 ; Part: Glossary of terms for Ultrasonic Testing; ASNT.
11. Ultrasonic Methods of Non-destructive Testing, first edition 1996, Jack Blitz and Geoff Simpson, Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0 412 60470 1
12. Industrial Radiology : Theory and Practice by R. Halmshaw, Hardcover - 303 pages 2nd edition (January 15, 1995) Kluwer Academic Publishers (former Chapman & Hall); ISBN: 0412627809
13. Non-destructive testing; Terminology - Part3: Terms used in radiographic testing; Trilingual version EN 1330-3 : 1997; DIN
14. Standard Terminology for Nondestructive Examination; Destignation E 1316; ASTM