Structural Integrity Monitoring
Spring 2002

One-Day Seminar: 22nd May 2002
UCL NDE Centre, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, London.

FREE REGISTRATION HERE


The Programme

9:30

Registration and coffee (Room 422, Fourth Floor, Engineering Building, Torrington Place, London)

Please note that lectures will take place in Room 421

9:50

Chairman's Introduction

Professor W D Dover, UCL

10:00

Continuous Structural Integrity Monitoring of Offshore Structural Nodes

Jonathon Watson, Physical Acoustics Ltd.

10:20

Cost Effective Structural Monitoring: an Acoustic Method

Mark Harper, Mecon Ltd.

10:40

Title to be announced

Professor Eann Patterson, Sheffield University

11:00

Questions

11:20

Tea (Room 422)

11:40

ACFM in the rail industry

Mark Howitt, Condition Monitoring, Bombardier Transportation Services

12:00

Monitoring with ACFM

Dr Martin Lugg, Technical Director, TSC Inspection Systems Ltd

12:20

Offshore Wind energy

Speaker to be announced

12:40

Questions

1:00

Lunch (Room 422)

2:00

Monitoring (instrumentation) of existing railway embankments

David Cook, Mott Macdonald Ltd.

2:20

Title to be announced

Fraser Livingston, QinetiQ

2:40

Long span bridges: structural monitoring as a tool for designers and operators

Neil McFadyen, Flint & Neill Partnership

3:00

Structural Integrity and Damage Assessment Network

Dr Janice Barton, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton

3:20

Questions and Closing Remarks

3:45

Close


Venue

The Venue: The Dept.of Mechanical Engineering is located at UCL, Gower Street site. This is within easy reach of Euston mainline station and Goodge Street, Euston Square, Warren Street and Russell Square Underground stations. Detailed directions are available and there is a map which can be viewed online.

Registration

Registration: Registration is FREE and is available via the seminar REGISTRATION PAGE.


Co-sponsored by
the BINDT
and
the IMechE Environmental and Safety Engineering Group