NDT Research at TWI
The NDT Technology Group is one of the fastest growing at TWI. Expertise is available to Industrial Member companies on all aspects of inspection: choice of technique, optimisation of method, limits of detection, assessment of fitness for purpose, etc. Furthermore, the group is undertaking one of the largest research programmes in the world into new techniques and their applications.
For more information on our programme, check the following:
Group Sponsored Projects
Collaborative Projects
Core Research Programme
Our Knowledge Summaries give descriptions of the major NDT techniques, or download our technology guides:
- TWI NDT Services Overview - pdf 692kB
- NDT Site Services - pdf 1056kB
- Alternating Current Field Measurement - pdf 597kB
- Acoustic Emission - pdf 612kB
- Automated Optical Inspection - pdf 657kB
- Automated Ultrasonic Testing - pdf 617kB
- Computerised UT Testing - pdf 630kB
- Eddy Current Testing - pdf 638kB
- Laser Shearography - pdf 605kB
- Long Range Ultrasonic Testing - pdf 647kB
- Microfocus X-ray Inspection - pdf 679kB
- Non-contact Ultrasonic Testing - pdf 637kB
- Rapid Large Area Ultrasonic Mapping - pdf 698kB
- Thermography - pdf 663kB
- Time-of-Flight Diffraction - pdf 608kB
- Ultrasonic Bond Testing - pdf 589kB
- Ultrasonic Modelling - pdf 613kB
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