Paper Submittal for Review - 15 September, 2007 – Final Paper Submittal - 30 September, 2007      Advanced NDT Technologies:Challenges and Implementation            December 02-05, 2007 Gulf International Convention Centre, Gulf Hotel, Kingdom of Bahrain
 
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Certification and Qualification

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Qualification of Phased Arrays to ASME Section V

Michael Moles

Olympus

 

Certification and Training of NDT Personnel

Vijay Vesvikar

Hafr Al-Batin Community
College

 

Establishment of National NDT Research Center in Saudi Arabia

Ibrahim Elshafiey&
Tarek Alkhalifah

King Saud University

 

TOFD, Phased Array and C-B Scan for Pressure Vessel Welds Examination according to ASME code sec. V

Peter Mudge,
Pirfo Barroso,
Guiseppe Nardoni

I&T Nardoni Institute

 

Phased Array for Piping Inspections using ASME B31.3

Michael Moles

Olympus

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Automated UT in lieu of RT

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Advanced Automated Ultrasonic Testing of Pipelines

Pratik Patel

EWI

 

Detachable Phased Array Probes

Pierre Marty

Sonatest

 

Advanced UT techniques :
TOFD / Phased Array

Hanley Thomas

GE Inspection Technologies

 

Advanced Ultrasonic in
Lieu of Radiography

Raymond  Carswell

Saudi Aramco

 

Utilizing Ultrasonic In-Line Inspection Technology and Fitness-For-Service Assessment for non-traditional pipeline Inspection Applications.

Stefan Papenfuss

Quest Reliability, LLC

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Permanently Installed Monitoring

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

On-Stream Inspection and Monitoring Technologies with Case Histories

Phil Cole

Physical Acoustics

 

Corrosion Monitoring of Trunk Lines using Permanently Installed Sensors

Ali Minachi

Saudi Aramco

 

Permanently Installed Monitoring System

Keith Vine

Guided Ultrasonics Ltd

 

Embedded Sensors

Hanley Thomas

GE inspection Technologies

 

New NDE Technology for Heavy Wall Reactor Crack Monitoring

John Nyholt

BP America

  ^ Top

 

Long Range Guided Wave Inspection-I

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Application of Guided Waves in Saudi Aramco

Ali  Minachi

Saudi Aramco

 

Long Range Guided Wave Phased Array Focusing in Pipeline Inspection

Dr. Joseph Rose 

Pennsylvania State University

 

Review Paper on Applications of  Magnetostrictive Sensor Technology

Dr.Glenn Light,
Dr. Hegeon Kwun,
Dr. Sang
Dr.Kim,
Dr. Albert Parvin

SWRI

 

Detection of Protective Coating Disbonds in Pipe Using Circumferential Guided Waves

Dr. Joseph Rose ,
Luke J. Breon

Pennsylvania Stat University

 

Recent Advances on Guided Waves in Pipe Inspection

Dr. Joseph Rose,
Jing Mu

Pennsylvania Stat University

  ^ Top

 

Long Range Guided Wave Inspection-II

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Application of Guided Wave Technology for Long Range Inspection of Oil and Gas Pipelines

Malik Kayous,
Tat-Hean Gan

TWI

 

Guided Waves for Integrity Evaluation of Corroded Pipes

Peter Mudge,
Pirfo Barroso,
Guiseppe Nardoni

I&T Nardoni Institute

 

Circumferential Ultrasonic Guided Wave Inspection in Piggable Pipelines

Dr. Joseph Rose 

Pennsylvania State University

 

Recent Advances in Guided Wave Screening Capabilities

Reyaz  Sabet-Shargi

IESCO

 

A Wave Dispersion Model for Health Monitoring of Plates with Piezoelectric Coupling in Aerospace Applications

Ahmed  Al-Garni

KFUPM

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Boiler and Heat Exchanger Methods

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Failure Analysis of Leaking and Damaged Convection Tubes in Utility Boilers

Falah Azizi

SHARQ(SABIC)

 

Reformer Tube Condition Assessment using a Multiple Technique Approach

Brian Shannon

IESCO

 

Principles of MFL Tube Inspection

Zaki  Al-Zaki

Saudi Aramco

 

Detection of Internal OR External Pits from Inside OR Outside a tube with New Technology (EMIT)

Vajpayee Ankit

Russelltech

 

Rapid Inspection Technique for Boilers Tubing

Mirza Thunain

Saudi Aramco

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Risk Based Inspection & Fitness for Service

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Shell-Risk Based Inspection-The Abqaiq Plants Experience

Mohammed Hajri

Saudi Aramco

 

Recent Advances in Fitness-for-Service Assessment

Ted L. Anderson

Quest Reliability, LLC

 

Managing of Inspection Stages & Quality Assurance Program

Khalid M. Al-Hydary

SABIC

 

Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) - YGP Case Study

Khalid M. Hasani

Saudi Aramco

 

Risk Based Management of Refinery Fired Heaters

David Firth,
Tim Hill,
G Simmonds D Keen,
C Thomas

Quest Reliability

 

Best-practice on RBI driven Integrity Assurance of Process Plant Items

Nader Rahim
Ron Selva
GPIC, Bahrain
PP SIMTECH, UK
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Innovative Computerized NDT Applications-I

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Acoustic Emission Testing Applications in Petrochemical

Saeed Baggal

Saudi Aramco

 

Sampling Phased Array, a New Technique for Signal Processing and Ultrasonic Imaging

Ramzi Beidas

Sonovation/IRC

 

Resolving Capabilities of Phased Array Sectorial Scans (S-Scans) on Diffracted Tip Signals

Mark Davis,
Michael Moles

Davis NDE, Olympus

 

A Novel EMAT Crack Detection and Coating Disbondment (RoCD2) ILI Technology

T. Beuker,
M. Klann,
J. Damaschke

ROSEN Technology and Research Center, Germany

 

Application of CR on On-stream Inspection in plants

Hanley Thomas

GE inspection Technologies

  ^ Top

 

Innovative Computerized NDT Applications-II

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Smart NDT Interface for defect classification

M. AbdulMajid ,
A. Yamani &
M. Deriche

KFUPM

 

Increasing Reliability / Reducing Risk by Applying Intelligent Pigging Technology To Inspect Coils in Process Heaters

Richard D. Roberts

Quest TruTec

 

Magnetic tomography  (MTM) is a new method of non-contact inspection
of non-piggable pipelines

Dr. Svetlana
Kamaeva
&
Dr. Valeriy
Goroshevskiy

Transkor-K

 

Robotic Inspection Technology for unscrapeable pipelines

Mohammed Jaarah

ROSEN

 

Tracking Corrosion in a Flow Loop Using Fiber Optic Sensors

Thierry Cherpillod,
Ihsan Al-Taie

FOX-TEK, Aramco

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NDT for Pipelines and Inaccessible Piping-I

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Erosion/Corrosion in Ethylene Glycol Plants Piping

Falah Azizi

SHARQ (SABIC))

 

Experience in Pipe Corrosion Screening On & Offshore

Andreas Boenisch

Innospection Ltd.

 

Corrosion Under Insulation - A Unique Experience

Ashiq Hussain

Petrokemya

 

Comparison of Pulsed X-ray Source Digital Radiography with Isotopic Radiography on Pipe

Dr.Glenn Light

SwRI

 

Monitoring Average Wall Thickness of Insulated or Difficult to Access Objects with Pulsed Eddy Currrent

H.J. Quakkelsteijn,  R. Scottini

Applus RTD Offshore

 
Slug Catcher Inspection using the large Structure Inspection (LSI) automated corrosion mapping system in LNG Industry
Ramesh J. Patel
Qatargas Operating Company Limited
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NDT for Pipelines and Inaccessible Piping-II

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Measurements of Corrosion under Insulation by Co-60 and Cs-137 Radiography.

Dr. Samir Alzaidi

KAU

 

Inspection Effectiveness and its Effect on the Integrity of Pipe work

Jan Heerings,
Norbert Trimborn,
Adriaan den Herder

(SGS)

 

Reducing Radiation Dose to Radiographers working on high production jobs on Flowlines/Pipelines

V K Dilip

SOGEC NDT

 

Remote Field Eddy Current Inspection System for Small Diameter Unpiggable Pipelines

Gary Burkhardt,
Albert Parvin,
Ronald Peterson,
Richard Tennis,
Todd Goyen
and
Dr.Glenn Light

SwRI

 

Ultrasonic inspection of Non Scrapable pipelines

Rolf Sporkel

AGR

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Plant and Equipment-I

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Inspection, Assessment, Repair and In-Service Monitoring of Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking in a Gas Processing Plant - A Case Study

Chris Ablitt

TWI

 

Challenges of Detection of Step-wise Cracking in Oil & Petrochemical Industry

Mohammad Abufour

Saudi Aramco

 

Inspection Technique and Repair for Refractory in FCC Unit

Mohammad
A AL-Zahrani

SADAF Co.

 

In-Situ Metallography for Plant Health Assessment Studies and Failure Investigation

Mr. V.K. Bafna
Mr. Paresh Haribhakti

TCR World, Inc.

 

Non Destructive Testing Utilization in Failure Investigation of a Stripper Receiver in Saudi Aramco Yanbu Refinery

Abdallah  Sanani

Saudi Aramco

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Plant and Equipment-II

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

GasFindIR

Abdallah H Faraj

Saudi Aramco

 

Nondestructive thermal method to evaluate the inclusion defect form

Smail  Sahnoun ,

Chouaib Doukkali Science Faculty

 

Evaluation  of Cement Mortars by Ultrasound

Be GÖZDE Özerkan

Middle East Technical University

 

Automatic detection and classification of high temperature hydrogen attack defects from ultrasonic a-scans signals

Dr. Ahmed Yamani

KFUPM

 

Inspection of internal tank welds using the ACFM Inspection Method

Dr. David Topp

TSC Inspection Systems

  ^ Top

 

Plant and Equipment-III

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

High Temperature Hydrogen Attack - Causes, Detection, Measurement, Mitigation, FfS and RLA.

Dr Roelf Mostert

Megchem Engineering

 

Defect Sizing with DGS Diagrams

Zaki  Al-Zaki

Saudi Aramco

 

 Study on Hot Corrosion Behavior of Ni-base Super Alloy

Pouria Zaker Safaie

University of Tehran

 

Study on Welded Stainless Steel AISI 316 Sensitization and its Electrochemical Noise Analysis in SCC Test

Ali Mohammad
Haghgoo

University of Tehran

 
Fully-connected Remote Visual Inspection (RVI)
Nermin Trobradovic
GE
Inspection Technologies & Sensing

  ^ Top

 

Plant and Equipment-IV

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Structural Health Monitoring with guided wave tomography at critical sections of a pipeline with elbows

Dr. Joseph Rose ,
Luke J. Breon

Pennsylvania State University

 

Advanced UT Techniques Utilized at Samref Refinery

A. A. Bankhar

SAMREF

 

Rapid Phased Array Ultrasonic Imaging of Large Area Composite

Pierre Marty

Sonatest

 

Flaw Detection and Characterization in Welded Samples used for Ultrasonic System Qualification

Jim Crane,
Glenn Light

SwRI

  ^ Top

 

General NDT-I

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Introduction to Non-Destructive Testing

Mohammad  Abufour

Saudi Aramco

 

Examining Concrete Cores by Non-destructive Techniques

Sinan  Caliskan

Saudi Aramco

 

Special Inspection & Analysis Skills

Khalid M. Al-Hydary,
Ibn Rashed

SABIC

 

Analysis Residual Constraint by Eddy Current Method

M Zergoug

Centre de Soudage et de Contrôle

 

Measurement of Magnetic Field Strength and Intensity of UV Light in Magnetic Particle Work Stations

Farid Nasehnia

 

  ^ Top

 

General NDT-II

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Transfusion of Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Eddy Current Signals

Ibrahim Elshafiey, Majeed Alkanhal, Ayed Algarni

KSU

 

Cementation Characterization of  xNC6 Steel by  Micro Magnetiques Methods

M Zergoug

Centre de Soudage et de Contrôle

 

Nondestructive Thermal Characterization of Cylindrical Defects in the Roadway

Professor Belattar

Chouaib Doukkali University

 

Powered Inspection Seat

Khalid M. Al-Hydary


SABIC

 

A New Application of the GPR Technique to Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks

Jamal Rhazi

Université de Sherbrooke

  ^ Top

 

General NDT-III

Ref
Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Thickness Measurement of Very Thick Iron walls of Pipes or Tanks by Neutron Back Diffusion Method

Samir Alzaidi

KAU

 

Acoustic Emission Technique for Detecting Gas & Fluid Leaks in Pipelines


Prashant V. Wagh

Riyadh Geotechnique Foundations & Co

 

Qualification of NDT personnel according to ISO 9712 accepted by ASME for code work

Peter Mudge,
Pirfo Barroso,
Guiseppe Nardoni

I&T NARDONI

 

Nanostructure Determination by Micromagnetic Methods

M Zergoug

Centre de Soudage et de Contrôle

 

Residual  Stress Analysis in Stainless Steel by Micromagnetic Methods

M Zergoug

Centre de Soudage et de Contrôle

  ^ Top

 

Poster Sessions *

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Title
Author
Affiliation

 

Analysis of Wave Dispersion in Smart Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Plates

Wael Abdelrahman

KFUPM

 

A Review of Nuclear Non-Intrusive Visualization Methods in Industry: Computed Tomography and Particle Tracking

Ashraf H. Shehata,  Mohammed S. AlJohani

KAU, Jeddah

 

Phased Array Inspection of Cracked Bolts

Michael Moles

Olympus

 

Dr.Ali Sabea Altemaimy

University of Kufa, Iraq

 

A Wave Dispersion Model for Health Monitoring of Plates with Piezoelectric Coupling in Aerospace Applications

Dr. Ahmed Al-Garni

KFUPM
 
Correlation between Mechanical, Pore structure and Nondestructive Characteristics of Concrete

Das Bibhuti
Civil Engineering Department, IIT Powai
 
Evaluation of Cement Mortars by Ultrasound
Mrs. N.Gözde Özerkan
Middle East Technical University

 
Signature Analysis of Gas Metal Arc Welding for Welding Defect Identification

Murali Sachithanandam
Sastra University, Thanjavur, India
 
Photoacustic Spectroscopy Applied to the Optical Characterization of Calcium Phosphates Coatings for Biomedical Use

Dr. Magdelena Mendez
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City
  ^ Top

* There will be only 10 tracks for presentations. Many of these papers will be presented as poster session.  All poster session authors present will have a dedicated time for explanation of their paper along with a chance to win prizes for the top three poster session papers.

 

 

 

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