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Inaugural Function
Plenary Keynote address
Invited Presentations
Contributory Presentations
Award Function
Sponsor's - Supporter's -Felicitation
Extensive Exhibition
Evening Entertainment programs
Special Social & Entertainment Programs for spouses and Ladies
Valedictory Function
 
     
 

Seminar will cover 2 Plenary talks, around 12 Invited presentations, 60 Contributory presentations and 30 Poster presentations.

 
     
 

This program will be covered in three days.

 
     
 

Inaugural Programme – NDE 2008 Monday – 1 st December 2008

 
     
 
  Itinery
   
  Monday, December 1, 2008
 
 
       
  08:30 Departure from Mumbai  
  11:30 Arrival at Hotel Fariyas Resort  
  12:00 Registration  
  13:00 Lunch  
  14:00 Inaugural Function  
  16:00 Plenary Session  
  18:30 Evening Programme  
  20:00 Dinner  
 
     
 
 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

 
     
 
 
A
B
C

Session 1
09:00-11:00

Ultrasonic Testing-I
Radoiography Testing-I
Material Characterization

Session 2
11:30-13:00

Eddy Current Testing
Thermography
Magnetic Testing
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Poster Session

Session 3
15:30-17:30

Ultrasonic Testing-II
Radoiography Testing-II
Modelling in NDT
 
     
 
  Wednesday, December 3, 2008
 
     
 

Session 4
09:00-11:00

Reliability and
Certification of NDT
Newer NDT
Techniques

General
Techniques in NDT

11:30-13:00
Valedictory Function
13:00-14:00
Lunch
15:30
Departure from Lonavla
 
     
 
  Technical Programme
   
 

Parallel Session – A
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

   
09:00 - 11:00 Session 1- A Ultrasonic Testing
   
09:00
  Invited Talk : Application of Ultrasonic and Eddy Current Flexible Arrays for the Inspection of Complex Components
    Steve Mahaut , Olivier Casula, Jean-Marc Decitre and Gwenaël Toullelan
   
   
09:30
  Ultrasonic Response of SS-403 to Variation in Processing Parameters
 
T B Harikishan Rao, S N Prasad and H V Kiran
   
09:45
  A Comparative Study on Ultrasonic and Magnetic Hysteresis Testing of Resistance Spot Welded Interstitial Free Steel
 
Gopachakraborty & T.K.Pal
   
10:00
  Ultrasonic Inspection of Leaky Condenser Tubes from Tarapur Atomic Power Station
 

J. L. Singh, Sunil Kumar, N. Kumawat, V. P. Jathar K. Unnikrishnan and S.Anantharaman

   
10:15
  High Frequency Ultrasonic Scanning System for the Evaluation of PHWR End Cap Welds
 
KR Subramanyam , KS Subramanian , A.Lakshminarayana and AV Ramana Rao
   
10:30

Ultrasnic Testing Detection Capability of Tight Machining Defects

 
Ramprasad.B, Raghupathy V.D, Ravishankar.S,Yand agnanarayana M
   
10:45

Validation of Acoustic Technique using Ultrasonic Technique for PFBR Safety Rod Drop Time Measurement

 
C.Asokane, M.Anandaraj, P.Anup Kumar, Sudhir Patri, S.Chandramouli, V.Prakash, C.Anand Babu and P.Kalyanasundaram
   
11:00-11:30 Tea Break
   
11:30-13:00 Session 2-A Eddy Current Testing
   
11:30

Invited Talk : Advances in Eddy Current Examination of Heat Exchanger Tubes

 
R.S.Vaghasiya
   
12:00

Indigenous Development of an Integrated Manipulator-Based System for Eddy Current Inservice Inspection of Steam Generator Tubes.

 
M.MohanBabu, A.K.Deshmukh , M.B.Jadhav and M.A.Yadav
   
12:15

Pulsed Eddy Current Technique application for Detection of Defects in Multi Coaxial Tubular Components using Time Frequency Analysis

 
T . V. Shyam, B. S. V. G. Sharma, J. N. Kayal and B. B. Rupani
   
12:30

Compensating for Variations in Material Properties in Remote Field Testing of Heat Exchanger and Boiler Tubes.

 
Ankit Vajpayee
   
12:45

Detection of Continuity of Tin in coaxial extruded Copper-Tin Wire by Eddy Current Testing

 
Arbind Kumar, MM Hussain, Gargi Choudhury and BK Shah
   
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00-15:00 Poster Session
   
15:00-15:30 Tea Break
   
15:30-17:30 Session 3-A Ultrasonic Testing-II
   
15:30

Invited Talk :Advanced Ultrasonic Methods – A review

 
Krishnan Balasubramanian
   
16:00

Design and Analysis of Broadband Transmission Line Transformers (TLT) for EMAT Applications

 
Vinay kumar. A, R. Dhayalan, Krishnan Balasubramaniam and C.V. Krishnamurthy
   
16:15

Weld Defect Classification in Ultrasound Testing Using Bispectral Analysis

 
Anusha Rammohan, Sateesh Jeyaraman, Vamshi Kommareddy and Sivaramanivas Ramaswamy
   
16:30

Inspection of Tie-Ins For Pipeline Welds using Phased Array Technique

 

I.Mohsin, S.Raja Suhas and N.Hemachandra Reddy

   
16:45

Development of Ultrasonic Guided Wave based Methodology for Inspection of Hexcan Sheath and Seal Welds of PFBR Fuel Subassemblies

 
Anish Kumar, K.V. Rajkumar, , G.K. Sharma, G. Suresh Kumar, T. Jayakumar and Baldev Raj
   
17:00

Low Cycle Fatigue Damage Assessment in Structural Steels with Different wt %C using Nonlinear Ultrasonic

 
Avijit Kr. Metya, Amit Prakash, Santanu De, N.Parida and S. Palit Sagar
   
17:15

Life Assessment of Heat Exchanger Tubes by IRIS Technique

 
I.Mohsin, V.Satya PavanKumar and T.Rameshkumar
   
 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

   
09:00 -11:00 Session 4-A Reliability and Certification of NDT
   
09:00

Invited Talk: Reliability and Effectiveness of NDT

 
B.K.Shah
   
09:30

Experience with Hydrogen Embrittlement in Heavy Section Steel Forging

 
R. N. Sen, V. Shrivastav and R. S. Yadav
   
09:45

NDE Personnel Certification

 
N.Sadasivan
   
10:00

Quality Assurance (QA) During the Manufacture of Reactor Vessels for Fast Reactor

 
T. Loganathan, A. Balasubramanian, Sudhakar Naik, Peter Jacob, R. Madeswaran M. Palaniappan and Prabhat Kumar
   
10:15 Role of NDT in the Life Management of Critical Components of Boiler & Turbine
 
U.C. Bhakta and A.K. Singhi
   
10:30

Model based POD - Why and How?

 
Shyamsunder M.T.
   
10:45

Codal Differences of Non Destructive Examination Requirements During Fabrication of Power Plant Equipments

 
G.K.Saxena and P.M.Shah
   
11:00-11:30 Tea Break
   
11:30-13:00 Valedictory Function
   
13:00-14:00 Lunch
   
 

Parallel Session – B

 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

   
09:00 - 11:00 Session 1-B Radoiography Testing-1
   
09:00

Invited Talk: Advances in Film-less Radiography

 
B.Venkatraman and Baldev Raj
   
09:30

Innovative RT Technique in Determining the Sensitivity of the Radiographs of High Thickness Components

 
R.Balakrishnan
   
09:45

Application of Radiography in ensuring Packed Density of B 4 C Powder in SS Capsule

 
M M Master, S C Marimuthu, Narain Prasad and C Awasthi
   
10:00

Performance Evaluation of Flat Panel Detector

 
Ravinder.B, Vasudev.K, Lakshminarayana. A,Ramana Rao .A V , PR Vaidya
   
10:15

Automation of 6 Mev High Energy Radiography Facility for the NDE of Large Solid Rocket Motors

 
Remakanthan. S, Vijayamohan Nair. B, Moideenkutty K.K and V.R. Ravindran
   
10:30
Density Estimation In Ceramic Pellets by X-Ray Radiography Technique
 
T.Saravanan, S.Bagavathiappan, John Philip, T.Jayakumar and Baldev Raj
   
10:45

Dual Energy Digital X-Ray Imaging Technique for The NDE Of Space Vehicle Components

 
Sreelakshmi. C and VR. Ravindran
11:00 - 11:30 Tea Break
   
11:30-13:00 Session 2-B Thermography
   
11:30

Invited Talk: Advances in Thermography

 
Pierre Bremond
   
12:00

Inspection of Jet engine turbine blades by Infrared Thermography

 
A. Mukhopadhyay, D. Chatterjee and M. Vijayakumar
   
12:15

Infrared Thermal Imaging of Blower Components of a Radioactive Hot Cell Exhaust System

 

S.Bagavathiappan, T.Saravanan, N.P.George, John Philip, T.Jayakumar
and Baldev Raj

   
12:30

Predictive Maintenance of Kiln Furnace Used for Production of Ceramic Insulators Using Thermography

 
M.S.Rawat and M. Mahesh Kumar
   
12:45

Thermographic Evaluation of Aircraft Structures

 
Prashant V. Wagh
   
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00-15:00 Poster Session
   
15:00-15:30 Tea Break
   
15:30-17:30 Session 3-B Radiography Testing-II
   
15:30

Invited Talk: Challenges And Innovations In The NDE Of Space Vehicle Components

  V.R.Ravindran
   
16:00

Emerging Standards for Industrial Digital Radiography

  Debasish Mishra, Clifford Bueno, Joe Portaz, G K Padmashree and V. Manoharan
   
16:15 Application of Gaussian Filtering for Enhanced Radiographic Evaluation
  K. Menaka, B.Venkataraman, R.Subbaratnam and Baldav Raj
   
16:30

Design and Development of 5-Axis Manipulator for Real Time Digital Radiography Systems

  Moideenkutty. K.K, Vaishnavi. S and V.R. Ravindran
   
16:45

3D Micro-Tomography Studies on Carbon Composites and Metallic Foam

  P.S.Sarkar, Tushar Roy, Y.S.Kashyap, A.Agrawal and A.Sinha
   
17:00

CT Image Reconstruction Based on Real Time Digital Radiography for The NDE of Solid Rocket Motors

  Vaishnavi. S, Sreelakshmi.C, Moideenkutty. K.K and V.R. Ravindran
   
17:15

Intensification in Computed Radiography

  Padmashree G.K, Prasad Thapa, Manoharan.V, Cliff Bueno, G.A Mohr, Rajashekar, Venkatachalam and Debasish Mishra
   
 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

   
09:00 - 11:00 Session 4-B Newer Techniques
   
09:00

Invited Talk: NDE Sensors : The Scenario Ahead

  M.T.Shyamsunder
   
09:30 Tap test: NDE by Local Measurement of Stiffness and Damping of a Structure
  Vinay Dayal, David K. Hsu
   
09:45

Third Order Elastic (TOE) constants determination in Quartz using LASER Vibrometry

  V Kommareddy, B.Ganesan, S. Jeyaraman and S. Ramaswamy
   
10:00

Monitoring of General Corrosion of Plain Carbon Steel by Means of Acoustic Emission

   
10:15

Scaling Of AE Energy and its Application in the Investigation of Brittle Fracture of Rock

  M.V.M.S. Rao, K.J. Prasanna Lakshmi, K.B. Chary and K. Vijayakumar
   
10:30

Development of Electronics speckle interferometry for NDE of spacecraft structural components

  M V Rao, A Ananthan and S Dasgupta
   
10:45

Air Coupled Ultrasonics – Modelling and Experimental Studies on Thick Composite Liners

  Karthikeyan. P, Hari Krishna. S, Narayanankutty. N, Francis. E.J and Krishnan Balasubramaniam
   
11:00-11:30 Tea Break
   
11:30-13:00 Valedictory Function
   
13:00-14:00 Lunch
   
   
  Parallel Session – C
 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

   
09:00 - 11:00 Session 1-C Material Characterization
   
09:00

Invited Talk: Recent Trends in NDE for Characterization of Microstructures and Residual Stresses

 
Dr. T.Jayakumar
   
09:30

Application of Continuum Damage Mechanics to Determine Fracture Toughness of Ductile Materials Through Ball Indentation Technique

 
G. Das, P.K.Singh, K.K.Paul, Mousumi Das, Paritosh Dubey and G.V.S.Murthy
   
09:45

Microstructural Characterization of Heat-Treated Modified 9Cr-1Mo Steel Using Magnetic Non-Destructive Techniques

   
10:00

Ultrasonic System for Accurate Velocity Profiling in Uranium Rods

 
S. K. Lalwani, G. D. Randale, V. M. Joshi and P. P. Nanekar
   
10:15

Microstructural Characterization by Ultrasonic

 
G. V. S. Murthy and B. Ravikumar
   
10:30

Non-Destructive Evaluation of Mechanical and Fracture Properties of Steels by Ball Indentation Technique

 

B.N.Rath, R. S. Shriwastaw, K. S. Balakrishnan, V. P. Jathar E. Ramadasanand K. C. Sahoo

   
10:45

Microstructural mapping in modified 9Cr-1Mo ferritic steel weldments through ultrasonic parameters

  G. Suresh Kumar, Anish Kumar, Vani Shankar, T. Jayakumar,K. Bhanu Sankara Rao and Baldev Raj
   
11:00 - 11:30 Tea Break
   
11:30-13:00 Session 2-C Magnetic Testing
   
11:30

Invited Talk :

  Douglas Marshall
   
12:00

Evaluation of plastic deformation in 304-austenitic stainless steel by magnetic NDE Techniques

  J.N.Mohapatra, A.K.Panda and A.Mitra
   
12:15 Non-Destructive Testing in VSP for anticipating Failure, for Finding Failure Origin and Preventing the use of Roll with manufacturing Defect
  Probir Kumar Sen, Ruchira Gupta and T.H.K Prasad .
   
12:30

Magnetic Flux Leakage NDE of Carbon Steel Plates using Giant Magneto-Resistive Sensors

  W. Sharatchandra Singh, B.P.C. Rao, B. Sasi, S. Thirunavukkarasu, and T. Jayakumar
   
12:45 Fractal analysis of Magnetic Barkhausen Emission signal
  M. Tarafder, I. Chattoraj, M. Nasipuri and A. Mitra
   
13:00 - 14:00 Tea Break
   
14:00-15:00 Poster Session
   
15:00-15:30 Tea Break
   
15:30-17:30 Session 3-C Modelling in NDT
   
15:30

Invited Talk: Applications of Signal Processing and Modelling in NDT

  P.Kalyanasundaram
   
16:00

Performance Evaluation of Various Algebraic Reconstruction Techniques

  Anant Rai, Abishai James,Nitin Jain and Prabhat Munshi
   
16:15 Numerical Modeling of Lorentz Force Distribution For Designing Meander Coil EMAT
  R. Dhayalan, Krishnan Balasubramaniam and C.V. Krishnamurthy
   
16:30

Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Wave Propagation Using ANSYS

  Suman Karmakar and Debasis Datta
   
16:45

Implementation of Householder Algorithm in Tomographic Imaging

  Abhishek Khetan, Abhishek Saxena and Prabhat Munshi
   
17:00 Monte Carlo Simulation of Gamma Ray Scattering for Evaluation of Embedded Corrosion of Mild Steel in Concrete
   
17:15

Modeling Studies of Grain Noise in Eddy Current NDE

  Mandar Godbole and Aparna Sheila-Vadde
   
 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

09:00 - 11:00 Session 4-C General Techniques in NDT
09:00

Invited Talk: Inspection Challenges and NDE Solutions in Manufacturing of Power Plant Equipments

  R.J.Pardikar
   
09:30

Development of Pellet-Sorting System (Go-No Go Type) for PFBR Fuel Pellets

  P.G.Behere, G.Sivasankaran, Rajveer Singh, S.B.Mhatre, and Mohd.Afsal
   
09:45

Helium Leak Testing of Tube-To-Tubesheet Joint by Inside Pressurization with Special Fixture

  S P Ghiya, J L Songhel and N S Choksi
   
10:00

Importance and Criticality of Visual Examination of Tube-To-Tube Sheet Weld For PFBR Steam Generator

  Sundar Singh
   
10:15

Detection of Internal Leak Source in Flora Fountain Masonry Structure

  Paresh R. Vaidya, AK Bandyopadhyay, SV Raghavan, MD Mangsulikar, PG Kulkarni, and Sharada Srinivasan
   
10:30

Quantification of Micro-Focus X-Ray CT Images using KT-1 Signature

  Sunita Yadav,Nitin Jain and Prabhat Munshi
   
10:45

KT-1 Signature for Circular Cone-Beam Tomography

  Nitin Jain and Prabhat Munshi
   
11:30-13:00 Valedictory Function
   
13:00-14:00 Lunch
   
  Poster Session
   
P-01

Methodology for Assessment of Annular Gap between Pressure Tube and Calandria Tube of Advanced Heavy Water reactor

  Kundan Kumar, T. V. Shyam, J. N. Kayal and B.B. Rupani
   
P-02

Innovative NDT Techniques for Life Assessment of Coolant Channels of Indian PHWRs

  B.B. Rupani, Kundan Kumar and J.N. Kayal
   
P-03 Certification & Training of NDT Personnel
  Vijay V Vesvikar.
   
P04 Non-Contact Measurement of Large Scale Coordinates and Geometrical Analysis
  Meeral Panchal
   
P05 Residual Stress Measurements on Nuclear Reactor Components by X-ray Technique -Two Case Studies
  H. N. Singh, M. P. Dhotre, P. Mishra, S. Anantharaman and K. C. Sahoo
   
P07

Microstructural Characterization in 2.25Cr-1Mo Steel using NDT and its Impact on Residual Life Assessment

  B.B.Jha, B.K.Mishra and S.N.Ojha
   
P08 Parallel Solver for NDT Imaging Applications
  Manish Bajpai, G Subbarao, Brajesh Pande, Phalguni Gupta and Prabhat Munshi
   
P09 Quality Assurance of Texture using Wavelet Analysis
  Sunita Yadav, Sakshi Vijay and Prabhat Munshi
   
P10 Helium Leak Testing by Pressure – Vacuum Method
  T.Gurunathan, A.R.Subramanian and A.Selvaraju
   
P11 Studies on Estimation of Depth of Defects Using A.C. Potential Drop and A.C Field Measurement Techniques
  S.P. Behera, B.P.C. Rao, S. Vaidyanathan, W. Sharatchandra Singh, A. Viswanath, and T. Jayakumar , M.V. Muthuramalingam and G. Raghava
   
P12 Acoustic Emission Monitoring during Laser Cleaning of Metallic Surfaces
  B.P Badgujar, Santosh Kumar, Gourab Banerjee, Anindita Ghosh, S.P.Chaudhuri and C.S.Viswanadham
   
P13 Acoustic Emission Technique for Detecting Gas & Fluid Leaks In Pipelines
   
P14 Design of Eddy Current Test Coils for In-Service Inspection of Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor Coolant Channels
  Arbind Kumar and BK Shah
   
P15 Development of Probability of Detection based Image Fusion Methodology for Enhancing Eddy Current Images of Stainless Steel Welds
  B. Sasi, B.P.C. Rao, T. Jayakumar and Baldev Raj
   
P16

Eddy Current Flowmeter for Sodium Flow Measurement and its Performance Prediction

  Prashant Sharma, S.K.Dash, B.K.Nashine, S. Suresh kumar,R. Veerasamy, B. Krishnakumar, P. Kalyanasundaram, G.Vaidyanathan
   
P17 Thermography for Detection of Cancerous Lesions in Breast
   
P18 Application of Pulse Phase Thermography for Detection and Analysis of Defects in Thermal Barrier Coatings
  M.S.Rawat and M. Mahesh Kumar
   
P19 Thermograpic Evaluation of Ceramic Balls-A Case Study
  M.S.Rawat and M. Mahesh Kumar
   
P20

Non-Destructive Test of Brazed Cooling Tubes of A Prototype Bolometer Housing Using Active IR Thermography

  Kumudni Tahiliani, Santosh Pandya, Shwetang Pandya, R. Jha and J. Govindarajan
   
P21

Noise Reduction in Radiographic Images using Wavelet Transform Method

  K. Arunmuthu, T. Saravanan, John Philip, T. Jayakumar and Baldev Raj
   
P22 Development of Real Time Motion Radiography System for X-G.A.R. of PFBR Fuel Elements
  D.B. Sathe, Nilima V. Walinjkar, A.K. Hinge, Jitender Sharma, D.Mukherjee, and Mohd.Afzal,
   
P23

Radiographic Studies of Impurity Deposition Pattern in Model Cold Trap after Sodium Experiment

  M.G.Hemanath , S.Chandramouli, C.Meikandamurthy, B.Venkatraman, K.K.Rajan & P.Kalyanasundaram
   
P24

Radiography of very high thick walled weld joints of Pressure Vessels of Steel by using Betatron of 7.5MeV energy.

  Pemmaraju Raghavendra, B.K.Singh and A.U.Sonawane
   
P25

Application of Partially Coherent X-ray Imaging Technique in Non-destructive Testing of Materials

  Y.S.Kashyap, P.S.Sarkar, A. Agrawal, Tushar Roy and Amar Sinha
   
P26 Inspection of Corrosive Resistant Alloy Clad Pipe Girth Welds using Phased Array Technique
  I.Mohsin, S.Vijay Edwin Durairaj, and R.Gomathi
   
P27

Study of Influence 0f Notch Length and Beam Intercept Length Parametres on the Test Results during UT of Tubes.

  G.S.S.Sastry , K.Sunderkrishna, Komal Kapoor and A.V.Ramana Rao
   
P28 Achievement of Ultrasonic Testing of Rails and Welds on Indian Railway
  Rajul R. Parikh and S.B. Biswas
   
P29

Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD) for Evaluation of Weldments at High Temperatures

  R.Subbaratnam, Saju T.Abraham, B.Venkatraman and Baldev Raj
   
P30 Inspection of Girth Weld Pipeline using Phased Array Zone Discrimination Principle for Improved Defect Sizing and probability of Detection
  I.Mohsin, S.Vijay Edwin Durairaj and S.Kiruthiga
   
P31 An Ultrasonic Imaging System for Inspection of Objects with a Multiple Surface Geometry
  Agashe A. A, Badgujar H. D, Chinnababu K. L. N, Jain R. K, Mittal R. K, Muralidhar S, Randale G. D, Sivakumar U, amhane A. B, Ananthakrishnan T. S, Joshi V.M., Mahule K.N. and Prasad G.J
   
P32 Wavelet and Short Time Fourier Transform Analysis for Understanding Frequency Dependent Scattering
  Govind K. Sharma, Anish Kumar and T. Jayakumar
   
P33 Golay Code based Ultrasonic Pulse Compression Technique for Ultrasonic Inspection of Composite
  Srinivas Kuchipudi