Table of Contents - ECNDT 98
NDTnet 1998 July, Vol.3 No.7

European NDT Innovation Diploma 1998

The NDT Innovation Prize was created in 1981 at the initiative of the Department of Non-Destructive Testing of the Compagnie Generale de Radiologie (CGR), France


The objective of this prize is to promote both fundamental and applied research in the field of non-destructive testing, to encourage the testing, perfecting and creation of new test methods in academic and industrial research environments.

The prize is awarded to a person or team whose research work has been selected by a committee comprising seven to eleven NDT experts who assess papers submitted by candidates.

Two NDT Innovation Prizes will henceforth be awarded:

  • one for basic research work,
  • one for applications research work.

The NDT Innovation Prize was awarded in 1983, 1986, 1990 and 1997, during national congresses in France.

In 1994, the CGR unit, now part of Cegelec, awarded prizes to European recipients during the 6th Congress for Non-Destructive Testing in Nice.

The NDT Innovation Prize, financed by Cegelec, is awarded in 1998 in partnership with the 7th Congress for Non-Destructive Testing, held in Copenhagen. The two prizes are each worth a total of 5,000 ECU. Recipients receive:

  • a personal certificate,
  • a special medal.

The certificate and medal are designed by Charles-Etienne Roguier.

Basic research
R. Marklein (Kassel University- Dept Electrical Engineering) For its works on: NDT related quantitative modelling of coupled Piezoelectric and Ultrasonic Wave Phenomena

Quantitative methods in Ultrasonic Non Destructive evaluation requires more and more deep and fundamental physical understanding of elastic wave propagation and scattering in solids and, consequently, numerical codes to model these phenomena.

Starting from a team work which laid the foundation for a numerical technique called EFIT (Elastodynamic Finite Integration Technique), R. Marklein has substantially further developed and applied this code. The latest scientific milestone comprises the inclusion of coupled piezoelectric and ultrasonic wave phenomena to account explicitly for the modelling of the transducer as a transformer of electrical quantities, i.e. voltage and current, into elastodynamic quantities i.e. displacement and stress.

Applications
MM. L. Vesth, P. Hansen, S. Neergaard (Force Institute - Copenhagen) For their works on: 3D inspection system

The 3D inspection system developed by FORCE Institute allows efficient and reproducible inspection of objects with complex geometry shape.

It combines:

  • system design and inspection planning using CAD and IT technology
  • six axis articulated robot manipulator design for use in places with limited space and difficult access conditions
  • software for remote controlling and monitoring of robot manipulator and for data acquisition
  • advanced UT technology
  • software for reconstruction of UT A-scan data in real 3D space and superimposing results with CAD model of object geometry

SELECTION COMMITTEE

Chairman
Prof. Doct. Ing. Hermann Wüstenberg
Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und prufung (BAM) - V111.4
Berlin - Germany

Members:
Prof. Dr. Nikolai P. Alyoshin
Head of NDT Dept.
MGTU Baumann
Moscow- Russia

Juan Ortega Delgado
Technatom s.a.
Madrid - Spain

Doct. J. M. Farley
Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd
enfrew - Scotland

Doct. Niels Hansen
Research Center Riso
Roskilde- Denmark

Ing. Zbynek Zavadil
ATG
Praha - Czech Rep.


Dr. Mario Certo
CISE - Spa
Milano- Italy

Doct.-lng. Xaver Edelmann
EMPA - St Gallen
St Gallen - Switzerland

Olav Forli
Det Norske Veritas AS-DNV
Hovik- Norway

Francis Pons
Electricite de France - EDF
Saint-Denis - France

Secretary: M. Durand Cegelec
Bretigny-sur-Orge - France

H.C. Oersted (1777-1851), Danish physicist and chemist
Major works: discovery of electromagnetism; isolation of aluminium; construction of piezometer.


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