Project Partners
United Kingdom
NDTCON, founded in 1985, is a private company producing realistic artificial flaws for NDT purposes. It is in strong growth and will employ more people during the coming years. NDTCON utilises a unique, patented technology to produce realistic flaws. This technology has shown its capability to produce representative flaws in a variety of materials including C and CMn steels, stainless steels and Inconel 600, different weld geometry's and weld overlay coatings. The owners of the company have extensive knowledge of material degradation mechanisms. The novel technology is based on real thermal fatigue. The flaws give an excellent simulation of service induced mechanical and thermal fatigue cracks and a good simulation of stress corrosion cracks. Role
Acquisition of samples and identification of field trial sites (WP-A), laboratory & field trials (WPG), input & assistance into the preparation of technician training and certification material (WP-H).
LRUCM is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, Deutsche Gesellschatt fur Zerstorungsfreie
Prufung EV, European Federation of Non Destructive Testing, Asociacion Espanola de Ensayos no Destructivos, Associacao
Portuguesa de Manutencao Industrial, Associazone Italiana Prove Non Distruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica, Balgarski
Saiuz po Zavariavane, Ukrainian Society for Non Destructive Testing and Technical Diagnostics, Coaxial Power Systems
Ltd, I & T Nardoni Institute Srl, Sonatest NDE Plc, Isotest Engineering S.r.l., RARI - Construcoes Metalicas Engenharia
Projectos E Solucoes Industriais, Lda, A Casa Inteligente, Lda., Atlantis NDE Ingenieria de Inspeccion no Destructiva SL,
NDT Consultants Ltd, Advanced Technology Group Sro, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade Associacao, Kingston Computer
Consultancy Limited, Zenon Robotics and Informatics SA, Kauno Technologijos Universitetas, Nexus Engineering Ltd. The Project
is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd. and is partly funded by the EC under the Collective SME programme ref:
Number Coll-CT-2005-516405.