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First Call for Papers
Twenty-ninth Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
 

Papers are sought for the 29th Annual Review of Progress in QNDE to be held July 14-19, 2002, at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.  The Review is organized by QNDE Programs and hosted by the Center for NDE, a member of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology at Iowa State University.  Conference information and forms will be available at:  http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/qnde/qnde.html. 

Verbal and poster sessions will be held that emphasize both the basic science and early engineering developments in quantitative NDE and closely related technologies such as materials characterization and process control that utilize quantitative NDE techniques. 

Categories of the Review will include advances in: 

  • Fundamentals of all QNDE methods (field-flaw interactions and field property relations, scattering, probability of detection, inverse methods and their application to flaw sizing and property measurement, process models, reliability of measurement and component inspectability)

  • Flaw imaging and reconstruction, image analysis­—all  techniques

  • Signal processing methods including application of advanced techniques to QNDE

  • Sensors, transducers, and probes for flaw detection, material property measurement, process control and in-situ measurements; NDE sensors for security applications

  • New and emerging QNDE techniques (e.g., NMR)

  • New QNDE instruments and systems

  • QNDE reliability and inspectability

  • Materials characterization (properties, stress,processes, weldments, corrosion, other degradation mechanics)

  • QNDE for advanced materials (composites, electronic materials and devices, ceramics)

  • QNDE of civil structures and materials

  • QNDE in manufacturing, design and process control

  • QNDE applied to security and biological systems (humans, animals, plants, foods)

Prospective authors are requested to prepare a 200-word (or less) abstract.  The abstract should be typed and include the title, author(s) and affiliation before the body of the abstract.  Each abstract must have a separate submittal form attached.  Abstracts may be submitted electronically, by fax, or by mail.  Abstract deadline is April 30, 2002. 

Abstracts will be reviewed by a program committee, and author(s) will be informed by May 13, 2002, of acceptance and whether the presentation will be in a verbal or a poster session for the Review.

Questions concerning abstracts should be directed to Connie Nessa or Sarah Kallsen (515) 294-9749 or qnde1@cnde.iastate.edu. 

Proceedings will be published as a hardbound volume with all papers on an accompanying CD.  Details of manuscript preparation and forms are available on the QNDE web site.  Post-conference manuscripts are due on September 2, 2002. 

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