The online Journal of Nondestructive Testing & Ultrasonics (Dec 2000 Issue Vol 5 No 12)

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We wish you all the best for this Holiday Season
and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

This Month's Introduction
This month we continue to focus on the 15th WCNDT providing some notes on the conference, the Exhibition and our photos from Rome.

16th WCNDT Review:
General Notes
   An Excellent Event, but ...
List of Exhibitors
   Plus further information ...
216 Photos
   Welcome, Opening, Sponsors,
   Exhibiton, Sessions,
   Gala Dinner, Closing.
Posters Against Landmines
   NDT People for Mines free World ...
Papal Audience
   Letter of the NDT Community
   to the Holy Father

NDT
TOPIC
This Month's Articles

15th WCNDT CD-ROM This month's articles? Probably you are still busy browsing or searching the 663 conference papers (70 MB) which we released in our November issue. To make contact to WCNDT Authors easier we have added a "Contact" link on all papers. Next month we'll continue publishing new articles as usual.

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News - Market - Technology

Plus News Elsewhere
News Archive '00 - '99 - '98 - '97 - '96

Defectoscopy 2000 A Good Start For The New Millenium
This Exhibition held 13-16 June in St. Petersburg became a remarkable event in the world of NDT in Russia.

Press Release- World Infrared Markets
These markets are poised for a new spurt of growth - according to a new in-depth report on the industry by Maxtech International.

UK's and Germany's Railway Safety is still in the spotlight.
The Hatfield disaster has raised a question mark over the safety of Britain's railway network. UK rail track conditions brings NDT into the picture. Hartmut Mehdorn, chief of the Deutschen Bahn AG, has empowered the German Rail Transportation Safety Board to discipline any employ who criticizes the safety of Deutschen Bahn AG. NDT.net remembers a similar situation with Deutsche Bahn in 1998 after we reported on the broken railway wheel.

Inspection of Risų Reactor DR3
In the period from May to September 2000, the FORCE Institute was required to prepare and perform an inspection of Risų’s nuclear research reactor. The assignment included development of two manipulators with various tools for the included inspection techniques. The inspection of the reactor as well as the analysis of the collected data was performed by the FORCE Institute. The fitness for purpose criteria, however, was the responsibility of Risų.
Force Institute Report - PDF file, 13.2 Mb on Non Destructive examination of Reactor DR-3. Reactor wall, Horisontal experimental tubes, Up- and Down comers.

P-scan 4 Lite
Compact, Battery Powered, Ultrasonic Inspection System by FORCE Institute

Panametrics' New Products for 2000
5077PR High Frequency Square Wave Pulser-Receiver, New 25DL PLUS Thickness Gage, EPOCH 4 - New Digital Ultrasonic Flaw Detector and 25HPV Velocity/Thickness Gage.

DGZfP Homepage:
15th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing
ICNDT-Mitgliederversammlung am 15. und 19. Oktober in Rom
Vorstand und Mitgliederversammlung des EFNDT tagten in Rom
Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung im Eisenbahnwesen

Departments This month's new topics in brief .....
Marketplace of NDT Products, Services and related Information Exhibition
Please Visit our Exhibitors and help keep NDT.net free.
Virtual Library
New Web Sites of the last 30 Days (Total 579)
NDT by A-Z
Due to other NDTnet developments we'll wait with new updates.
Forum
New Members of the last 30 Days (Total 612).
Abstracts

Publications
Table of Contents Delivery
Books
Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering 2000
Proceedings of 5th NDT-CE symposium Japan
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics
View the abstracts. Full-length papers are restricted to UFFC members only.
IEEE Xplore
provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.

Events
March - September 2001, Brno, Czech republic
   Int' Conference on Internet: ACOUSTIC EMISSION 2001
   The conference will be organised on Internet pages of Brno University of Technology.
2001 OCT 7-10, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   2001 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
   A Joint Meeting with the World Congress on Ultrasonics.
   Abstract Deadline: May 24, 2001
2002 OCT 8 - 11 Munich, Germany
   2002 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium

2002 June 17 – 21,
   8th ECNDT Barcelona 2002
   Abstract Deadline: March 31, 2001
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Jan Issue: Late incoming 16th WCNDT and EPRI Papers
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Always selected papers of individual Authors (Call for Papers)

This Month's Introduction
This month we continue to focus on the 15th WCNDT providing some notes on the conference, the Exhibition and our photos from Rome.

16th WCNDT Review: General Notes An Excellent Event, but ... List of Exhibitors Plus further information ... 216 Photos Welcome, Opening, Sponsors, Exhibiton, Sessions, Gala Dinner, Closing. Posters Against Landmines NDT People for Mines free World ... Papal Audience Letter of the NDT Community to the Holy Father

NDT TOPIC	This Month's Articles
15th WCNDT CD-ROM	This month's articles? Probably you are still busy browsing or searching the 663 conference papers (70 MB) which we released in our November issue. To make contact to WCNDT Authors easier we have added a "Contact" link on all papers. Next month we'll continue publishing new articles as usual.

Upcoming Features Examples
Jan Issue: Late incoming 16th WCNDT and EPRI Papers Continuing developments of NDT by A-Z and Search facilities Always selected papers of individual Authors (Call for Papers)