Advancing NDE Education for Future Engineers – A South African Perspective

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2016-01-01
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Johannes, Manfred
Ramatlo, Dineo
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Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation

Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.

This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.

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Non-Destructive Evaluation has gained vast popularity in industry due to its effectiveness in the inspection of engineering structures. To date, a lot of advances to train NDE technicians have been achieved, with the objective to instill the understanding of basic principles of NDE methods and the practical application of such methods. The testing of structures is classically performed according to design codes such as American Society of Mechanical Engineers –V (ASME-V), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), British Standard 3923 (BS 3923) and others. For performing in-service inspection, there is no existing design code. This calls for a need to highly advance NDE engineering education. There is also a need to design NDT systems. To develop reliable systems, technical justifications will be required, and can be achieved through modelling capabilities. It is therefore significant to develop a thorough understanding of the NDE system and qualifications based on correct inputs from allied sciences, and also develop modelling capabilities at engineering level for an integrated approach to NDE. The use of university education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to help facilitate NDE education should be promoted.

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