NEXT-GENERATION NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION
Key Recommendations
In line with MForesight’s mission of providing coordinated input from the manufacturing community to inform national priorities in advanced manufacturing, the advanced manufacturing community found three clear and actionable recommendations to advanced U.S. competitiveness in rapid reliability assessment of safety-critical critical and emerging technologies:
1) Establish a multi-agency federal research initiative to advance nondestructive evaluation capabilities to support advanced manufacturing.
2) Initiate a comprehensive nondestructive evaluation benchmarking program to accelerate nondestructive evaluation development and implementation through novel physical and digital benchmarks.
3) Accelerate new technology implementation through the creation of a national nondestructive evaluation research and user facility and a nondestructive evaluation workforce development working group.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER & STEERING COMMUNITY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Gary Georgeson, NDT Senior Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Gary Georgeson is the Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in Nondestructive Evaluation/Testing (NDE/NDT), where he has worked since 1988 in Seattle, Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering/Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Gary provides the strategy and roadmaps for NDE of aerospace structures during both manufacturing and aircraft service. As Boeing’s most prolific inventor, he has developed or co-developed numerous NDE systems and methods (200+ patents), particularly related to composite structure validation. Gary is the co-inventor of the Boeing Blade Crawler and Boeing ROVER, which were developed for automated in-service inspection of aerospace structures. His innovations have supported various Boeing platforms and helped Boeing win contract R&D programs from the USAF, USN, NASA, TTCI, and the FAA. Gary is often called upon by the U.S. government and industry for advisory roles regarding NDE. He is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences, having spoken about NDE in Spain, Singapore, Germany, Brazil, China, and France, as well as the U.S.
STEERING COMMUNITY
Leonard Bond
Professor, Iowa State University
Waled Hassan
RR Associate Fellow: Materials – NDT/E, Rolls-Royce North America
Shana Telesz
Global Product Manager, Radiography Systems, Baker Hughes
Paul Zombo
Service, Materials, and Technology Manager, Siemens Energy
Overview/Motivation
The American manufacturing sector prides itself on the quality, reliability, safety, and novelty of its advanced manufactured goods. Tools that evaluate parts and processes without causing damage are a cornerstone for delivering these valuable attributes. Leading the way in developing and implementing more accurate, reliable, and effective nonddestructive evaluation (NDE) tools is critical to U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. Emerging technologies and operational requirements are driving the need for the next generation of NDE. As composites emerge as ubiquitous structural and mechanical components in a range of manufactured goods, optimal evaluation requires leveraging new technologies. Likewise, as additive manufacturing takes an increasing role in manufacturing critical components, it becomes essential to overcome the unprecedented challenges of evaluating these complex geometries. For ceramics, improving the probability of detection is vital for finding defects on ever-shrinking length-scales. Improving the speed, accuracy, automation, and accessibility of NDE tools will enable these sectors while also benefiting the wide array of industries with established NDE tools and processes. The challenges and emerging opportunities facing nondestructive evaluation cut across a spectrum of technologies and disciplines from materials science to electrical engineering to computer science. Coordination and strategic investments are needed to drive America’s scientific discoveries in next generation NDE towards technologies implemented in our factories and the creation of new economic opportunities. MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight will convene and gather the insights of NDE and manufacturing experts from industry, academia, government, and federal labs to define and prioritize cross-cutting challenges and explore opportunities for coordinated action from public and private stakeholders. The goal is to create actionable recommendations for enhancing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness through NDE. For more information, please reach out to us at info@mforesight.org
Contributors
Dr. Leonard Bond, Professor – Aerospace Engineering Department, Iowa State University
Dr. Brandi Briggs, Mechanical Engineer – NAVAIR
Mr. Bharat Chaudhry, Vice President – Thermal Wave Imaging, Inc.
Mr. Elliott Cramer, Branch Head – Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch NASA Langley Research Center
Dr. Larry Culbertson, Director/COO – NDT Solutions LLC
Mr. Gavin Dao, VP & Director of Business Development – Advanced OEM Solutions (AOS)/The Phased Array Company (TPAC)
Dr. Yuris Dzenis, R. Vernon McBroom Professor of Engineering – Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mr. David Forsyth, Principal Scientist – NDE Division, TRI Austin
Dr. Gary Georgeson, NDE Senior Technical Fellow – The Boeing Company
S.W. Bill Glass, Technical Advisor – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dr. Michael Groeber, Associate Professor – Integrated Systems Engineering, Ohio State University
Dr. Joel Harley, Assistant Professor – University of Florida
Dr. Waled Hassan, Associate Fellow – Materials – NDT/E, Rolls Royce
Dr. Edward Herderick, Director of Additive Manufacturing – The Ohio State University
Dr. Stephen Holland, Associate Director – Iowa State University Center for NDE
Mr. Patrick Howard, NDE Consulting Engineer – GE Aviation
Dr. Martin Koerdel, Head of Research Group – Component Manufacturing and Inspection Technologies – Siemens Corporate Technology
Dr. Eric Lindgren, Nondestructive Evaluation Technology Lead – Materials State Awareness Branch, Structural Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Material Command
Mr. Rick Lopez, Staff Materials Engineer – Deere & Company – Technology Innovation Center (Ames)
Dr. Harry Martz, Director – Nondestructive Characterization Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Paul Panetta, Principal Scientist and Lab Director – Applied Research Associates, Inc.
Prof. Piero Rizzo, Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Francesco Simonetti, Professor – University of Cincinnati
Mrs. Shana Telesz, Global Product Manager – Radiography Systems Baker Hughes, A GE Company – Inspection Technologies
Dr. Joseph Turner, Robert W. Brightfelt Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Michael Uchic, Research Leader – Materials State Awareness Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Gorm Yoder, Scientific Director – Analytical Development Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Development Janssen R&D
Mr. Paul Zombo P.E., Manager – Technology and Innovation, Siemens Energy Inc.
MForesight’s work was supported by the National Science Foundation from 2015 to 2020 under Grant No. 1552534 to the University of Michigan (Dr. Sridhar Kota).
Please note that any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the University of Michigan.
