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Monday, 16 April 2012

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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

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Wednesday, 18 April 2012

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Thursday, 19 April 2012

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Friday, 20 April 2012

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 The 18th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing (WCNDT-2012) will held from 16 to 20 April 2012 in Durban, South Africa.

Conference Overview and Themes

General

• Training and certification
• Regulation/standardization
• Design for inspection
• Flaw sizing and probability of detection (POD) 

NDT in Africa

Application areas of NDT

• Transport
• Civil structures, concrete
• Mining
• Power generation
• Chemical/Petrochemical industry
• Steel industry
• Wood and pulp industry
• Archaeology, art works
• Security, surveillance

Materials characterization

• Composites, polymers, ceramics
• Micro-systems
• Microstructure
• Corrosion
• Bonds

Condition monitoring

• Diagnosis and prognosis
• Structural and machine health monitoring
• Computational intelligence in monitoring
• Process monitoring and control
• Reliability and quality

NDT Techniques, R&D

• Eddy current
• Magnetic
• Optical
• Dye penetrant Radiography
• Thermography
• Terahertz NDE
• Microwaves
• Ultrasonics fundamentals
• Guided waves
• Non contact ultrasonics
• Phased arrays
• Non-linear ultrasonics
• Acoustic emission
• TOFD
• Modelling
• Signal processing and imaging
• New and novel applications of NDT techniques

WORKSHOPS

• NDT for Regulators
• Advanced Imaging Techniques
• NDT basics