The International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing

Registration for the 18th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, to take place 16-20 April 2012 in Durban, South Africa, is now open.

Preliminary programme out NOW!.

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At each World Conference, ICNDT presents awards to people and organisations that have made major contributions to NDT.
The winners are chosen by secret ballot of the members of the ICNDT Policy and General Purposes Committee, from nominations submitted by member societies. We are announcing the call for nominations in good time to allow our members time to make their own choice of candidates.
There are five awards:

• Roentgen Award for major contribution to the science and technology of NDT
• Pawlowski Award for major contribution to the promotion of NDT internationally
• Havercroft Award for major contribution to NDT education, training or certification
• Sokolov Award for major contribution to NDT research
• ICNDT Young Achiever Award for achievement of young people in NDT (<35 years)

The rules for the awards are set out in Operating Procedure OP4, which can be found in the Document area of this website. Nominations should be sent to Corinne Mackle  (corinne.mackle@bindt.org) by 31 July 2011.
The winners in 2008 were:
Roentgen: Professor Vladimir L Chakhlov   
Runners up: 1. CIVA – the NDT simulation software; 2. V Vengrinovich and V Artemjev
Pawlowski: Anthony Sonneveld and Gerhard Aufricht   
Runner up: Xu Yongchang
Havercroft: Z S Nikiforova, S A Popoudina, S I Zinovjeva and V V Levkovich
Runner up: Nadezhda P Biryukova
Sokolov: Rong S Geng
Runner up: Eduard S Gorkunov
Young Achiever: Andrey Evgenievich
 

The worldwide industry has for some years sent strong messages to the ISO and CEN Technical Committees (TC) requesting that harmonisation between the two standards dealing with certification of NDT personnel be undertaken in order, if possible, to provide industry with a unique standard, resulting in a unique system of NDT personnel certification being applied worldwide.

• creation on the ISO and CEN side of relevant groups in order to study the differences between the two standards and make proposals for a unique text.
• “common” meetings of these two groups for this study (two have already been held).

Keynote lecture at the 10th ECNDT Moscow, June 2010
by Dr Mike Farley
Chairman ICNDT and Director, Doosan Power Systems, UK 

At the General Assembly in 2008 it was agreed that the Executive Committee would draw up a Strategic plan covering the next four years. The document was reviewed and generally agreed  by the PGP, meeting in Yokohama on 8 November 2009. It is now available to download here and comments are invited from the full membership. It will be presented to the General Assembly in June 2010 in Moscow.