Conference & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation

theme - Frontiers in LAITON Science & Technology

Organized by Indian Society for Non–Destructive Testing ( ISNT )

About ISNT

ISNT is a non-profit, professional body of technologists, engineers, scientists, academicians and researchers in India, who are engaged in the field of non-destructive testing. Since its inception in the year 1972, it has matured and established itself at the international level having stature and recognition. Presently, ISNT has more than 5000 members spreading over 18 chapters in India with headquarters at Chennai.

The objective of ISNT is to promote the awareness of NDT science and technology through education, research and exchange of technical information within the country and internationally to its members and other professionals. Some of the major objectives of ISNT are:

About LAITON 2022

NDE 2022 is the annual event organized by Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing. The event comprises of conference and exhibition, which will run in parallel from Dec. 19-21, 2022. The conference will be held at CIDCO Convention Centre, while the exhibition will be running at the CIDCO Exhibition Hall. Both the venues are adjacent to each other and connected internally. Prior to the event, Pre-conference tutorials will be organized from Dec. 17-18, 2022 on various topics that are relevant to industries.

During the conference there will be 40 + keynote lectures delivered by eminent personalities in the field of NDE. The conference is also an opportunity for NDT professionals to present their work in various technical sessions. There are special awards for the ‘best’ presentations in various categories (oral presentation, short presentation and poster presentation).

The exhibition promises to bring all the conventional and advanced NDT technologies under one roof for the benefit of delegates. Delegates can witness live demonstration of NDT equipments and discuss the challenges they are facing in their industry related to inspection. Over 75 + exhibitors across the globe will be participating in this event. There will be special awards for the ‘best’ exhibitor in various categories (NDT technology, NDT services etc.)

Over 1000 delegates from all over the world will be attending this event. The event provides an ideal platform to delegates to share and discuss their work with experts and colleagues working in NDT and related fields.

Organizing Team

Chairman, LAITON 2022
Dr. Paritosh Nanekar
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Convenor, LAITON 2022
Mr. Samir K. Choksi
Hi-Tech Imaging
Co-Convenor, LAITON 2022
Mr. Mukesh Arora
NDTS India / Arora Technologies

National Steering Committee

Chairman
Dr. R.J. Pardikar
President, ISNT
Co-Chairman
Dr. V. Pari
Secretary, QUNEST
Members
Jaiteerth Joshi
Vice President, ISNT P. Mohan
Hon. Gen. Secy, ISNT Dr. A. U. Sonawane
AERB, Mumbai T. Loganathan
NCB, ISNT
Navita Gupta
ISNT, Delhi M. S. Shendkar
ISNT, Pune M. Venkata Reddy
ISNT, Hyderabad N. S. Gulavani
ISNT, Tarapur
G. Levin
ISNT, Thiruvanathapuram D. Gautam
ISNT, Kolkatta

Organizing Committee

Advisor
Mr. N.V. Wagle
Ex. L&T;
Chairman
Dr. Paritosh Nanekar
BARC
Convenor
Mr. Samir K. Choksi
Hi-Tech Imaging Co-Convenor
Mr. Mukesh Arora
NDTS India / Arora Technologies
Members
Rajul Parikh
EECI Anil Jain
IXAR P.H. Chandy
NAARI Dilip Gatty
NANSO
K.B. Jetly
Eastwest Engg Hemant Madhukar
MAS

International Relationship

Chairman
Dr. B. Venkatraman
IGCAR
Chairman
Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam
IITM
Co-Chairman
Dr. M. T. Shyamsunder
GE
Members
Arun Srivastava
DAE Prof. G. V. Prabhugaonkar
Ex-IITM Dr. Amitava Mitra
NML
Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal
IITM

Industrial Relationship

Advisor
D. J. Varde
Past President, ISNT
Chairman
Rajul Parikh
EECI
Co-Chairman
D. D. Joshi
Vice-President, ISNT
Members
Hemant Kumar
RIL R.G. Ganesan
BETZ Engineering & Technology A.K. Das
NTPC
Partha Pratim Bramha
LIoyds A.K. Singh
NPCIL R.V.S. Mani
ISNT Vadodara
G. Surya Prakash
Associated Engineering Services B.K. Pangare
Quality NDT Services Sashidhar Pallaki
Pallakki NDT
Dharamveer Singh
GE T. Kamaraj
ISNT Delhi S.R. Ravindran
NPCIL
Mr. Parag Pathak
ISNT, Nagpur Mr. S. Balamurugan
Tata Steel

Technical Committee

Chairman Technical (Industry)
Umakanthan Anand
RIL
Chairman Technical (Scientific)
Bikash Ghose
HEMRL
Members
Dr.Sarmishtha Palit Sagar
NML S. Gopalakrishnan
IISc Dr. Anish Kumar
IGCAR V. Manoharan
GE
M. Menaka
IGCAR S. Hari Krishna
VSSC V. Deepesh
BHEL Alok Prakash
BARC
Tushar Mukherjee
RIL

Exhibition Committee

Advisor
Dilip Takbhate
Past President, ISNT
Chairman
Mukesh Arora
NDTS India/Arora Technologies
Members
Srinjay Gogia
Olympus NDT Parag Nag
GE Rajul Parikh
EECI Samik Bhattacharya
Carestream
Deepak Parikh
Modsonic T.P. Singh
Flir Vivek Rajamani
EMCS Rajesh Kulkarni
Blue Star
C.P. Madhusudan
Lucid Mandar Vinze
Vinze Magnafield

Finance Committee

Chairman
Anil Jain
IXAR
Co-Chairman
Kalesh Nerurkar
Hon. Treasurer, ISNT
Members
Samir K. Choksi
Hi-Tech Imaging A. Subramaniam
ISNT, Chennai S. Vishwanathan
Hon. Treasurer, NCB Niranjan Sthalekar
ISNT, Mumbai
S. Subramaniam
AO, ISNT

Marketing & Publicity

Advisor
Dr. Jaiteerth Joshi
DRDL
Chairman
Mukesh Arora
NDTS India/Arora Technologies
Members
Krishna Bhuta
Topax M.N.V. Viswanath
NFC Hari Kishore
Sievert India Nishad Sam
Shalini NDT/Nanso
Kashyap Bhat
ISNT, Vadodara Anandan Pari
Scanray P. Gopal
ISNT, Mumbai Abhinav Singhi
IRC Engineering Services

Registration & Event Management

Chairman
Samir K. Choksi
Hi-Tech Imaging
Co-Chairman
Hemant Madhukar
MAS
Members
Manish Gutka
Kronix Niranjan Sthalekar
ISNT, Mumbai S.N. Roy
ISNT, Mumbai A.K. Sharma
ISNT, Mumbai
Rajesh Gandhi
ISNT, Mumbai Sameer Mhatre
ISNT, Mumbai

Pre-Conference Tutorials

Advisor
L. M. Tolani
ISNT, Mumbai
Co-Chairman
B.K. Shah
Ex. BARC
Co-Chairman
N Sadasivan
MAS
Members
R.S. Vaghasiya
ISNT, Mumbai Ashok Trivedi
ISNT, Mumbai Hemant Madhukar
ISNT, Mumbai
Sunil Kumar Suri
ISNT, Mumbai Arbind Kumar
BARC Amar Pathare
ISNT, Mumbai

Conference Manager

Elbon Conferences & Events Pvt. Ltd.
Praveen Kumar Kokne
Senior Manager - Meetings & Conferences
Email : praveenkokne@elbonmeetings.com
Website : https://elbonmeetings.com/

About Venue

CIDCO Exhibition & Convention Centre is state-of-the-art, purpose-built exhibition & convention venue, spread over 7.5 hectare of land, located at Vashi, New Mumbai. The centre is situated just outside Vashi Railway station, amidst various business establishments and commercial centres.

The centre is at a 45-minutes drive (26 km) from Mumbai International airport and 25-minutes drive (20 km) from Bandra Kurla Complex. The venue is easily accessible by road and railway from Mumbai, Thane and Panvel. There are numerous hotels, entertainment activities, retail shopping & sightseeing spots around the centre.

The upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) is proposed to become operational by end of 2019 which is at 12 km from the centre.

Built on a sprawling 2,00,000 sq.ft. area, the centre has two large halls for exhibition and 1,50,000 sq.ft. Convention Centre. Both the exhibition and business centre are connected by a bridge. Innovatively designed at par with international standards, the centre sports an aesthetic and attractive view.

Navi Mumbai, The Smart City

A truly cosmopolitan city with a breath of fresh air, sector-wise planned extensions, broad, well paved, tree-lined roads with dozens of flyovers and interchanges, modern infrastructure, huge open spaces and recreation areas. With four modes of transport wide roads, excellent rail network and the upcoming air and water transport infrastructure, distance here can be calculated in minutes, not in hours unlike other Indian metros.

The city is characterised by wide roads, world class railway stations, an IT hub, numerous malls, a massive exhibition centre, top notch hospitals, educational institutions, unrestricted power and water supply.

Situated in the Eastern trans Harbour of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai has seen a tremendous growth since three decades. Some enticing facts of Navi Mumbai:

Approximate distance from airport, railway station and travel time

Nearest local railway station for Outstation Trains

Nearby hotels

Conference Secretariat

ISNT, Mumbai Chapter
B-401/402, Raylon Arcade, Ramkrishna Mandir Road,
Kondivta, J.B. Nagar, Andheri (East),
Mumbai 400 059, INDIA

Tel +91 22 2832 7521

ISNT Awards

ISNT honours NDT professionals for their outstanding contributions to the field of non-destructive evaluation by presenting them with awards under various categories. The awards will be presented during the inaugural function of LAITON 2022.

Award Category Sponsor
ISNT- Hi Tech Imaging Award for Young Scientist M/s. Hi Tech Imaging Pvt. Limited., Mumbai
ISNT-EEC Award for Excellence in Contribution in R&D M/s. Electronic & Engineering Co. (I) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
ISNT-P-MET Award for Excellence in contribution to Industrial Applications P-Met High Tech Co. Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara
ISNT-NDTS award for Excellence in contribution to NDT Systems Innovation & Development M/s. NDTS India Pvt. Ltd., Navi Mumbai
ISNT-FERROFLUX Award for International Recognition M/s Ferroflux Products, Pune
ISNT-IXAR Award for Best Paper - JNDE (R & D) M/s Industrial X-Ray and Allied Radiographers (I) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
ISNT-EASTWEST Best Paper Award - JNDE (Industry) M/s Eastwest Engineering & Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
ISNT-PULSECHO Award for the Best Chapter M/s Pulsecho Systems (BOMBAY) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
ISNT Lifetime Achievement Award Indian Society for Non destructive Testing

Guidelines to Authors for Preparation of Abstract and Full Text

NDE technologists, scientists and professionals interested in presenting their original work at LAITON 2022 are requested to upload the abstract(s) of their paper(s) in any of the following suggested broad areas and topics :
Conventional and Advanced NDT technologies
Materials Characterization by NDT
NDE in Aerospace, Railways, Defence, Space, Automobile, Fabrication, Civil Engineering, Nuclear, Petrochemical etc.
Modeling and Simulation
Signal and Image Processing
NDE Sensors and Instrumentation
Robotics and Automation in NDE
Functional and Operational Testing, Reliability and Safety Assurance
NDE Corrosion Damage Monitoring
Robotics and Automation in NDE
Quality Control and Quality Assurance
Pre and In-service Inspection
Structural Health Monitoring and Aging Management
Structural Integrity Assessment and Life Extension
Condition Monitoring and Residual Life assessment
Off-shore NDE
Novel LAITON Methods
Reliability and Effectiveness of NDE
Performance Demonstration and Evaluation
Multi-NDE, IOT and Data Fusion
NDE education, standardization, training, certification and accreditation
NDE Codes and Standards
NDE in Bio-medical Engineering
Emerging LAITON technologies
Abstracts should be prepared in English.
The abstract size is limited to one A4 page (including title, authors, affiliations, body text, keywords, etc.) and 400 words at most.
The abstract should comprise of a title, names and affiliation of authors along with email address and the text.
The abstract should be prepared strictly as per the Abstract Submission Template LAITON 2022.
Download Abstract Submission Template LAITON 2022
The abstract must be submitted in *.doc/ *.docx format only. No other format would be accepted by the uploading utility.
The abstract should convey the purpose of the study, experimental procedures and important findings and outcome of the work.
Drawings / figures should not be included in the text of the abstract.
Abstracts / papers previously published or presented at any national or international meeting are not permitted.

Guidelines to Authors for Submission of Abstract

Abstracts must be uploaded through conference website www.nde2022.in only after registration in the website.
If you have not created an account yet at www.nde2022.in, click here to create one .
Provide all the details while creating the account You will receive SMS and e-mail confirmation regarding successful creation of an account with www.nde2022.in
Login to your account by providing the login ID and password.
Click on the link “Submit Abstract” available under menu ‘ABSTRACT’.
Fill the name of authors as per the given field. Please fill your surname in full. Fill the affiliation of author. To add more authors for the abstract, please click on the ‘Add Author’ button. You may add up to 5 authors for an abstract.
Please indicate the presenting author by selecting the radio button.
Please provide the further details of presenting author only.
Chose the preferred mode of presentation as follows. Technical committee will confirm the mode of presentation during acceptance of the abstract.
Short Presentation (Presentation for 6 minutes)
Oral Presentation (Presentation for 15 minutes)
e-Poster (Display of e-Poster)
Provide the title of your paper in ‘Sentence case format’.
Provide 3-5 keywords.
Click the checkbox confirming the acceptance of terms of conditions for submission of abstract and click SUBMIT button.
Upon uploading the abstract, you will receive SMS and e-mail confirmation regarding the successful submission of Abstracts.
The status of your abstract will be shown as “Pending Review”.
A “Delete Abstract” button will be activated against each abstract submitted. The “Delete Abstract” option will be available until the decision on your abstract is taken and the status will change to “Accepted” or “Rejected”
In case you feel that the submitted abstract needs correction, the submitted abstract may be deleted by clicking on the button “Delete Abstract”. Upon deletion, the abstract will be completely removed and will no more be reviewed for consideration in NDE2022. You may upload the corrected version as a fresh submission or submit a new abstract.
Upon acceptance of the abstract by the technical committee, you will receive SMS and email confirming the acceptance of your submission and also confirming the mode of presentation.
You may check the status of all the submitted abstracts under the link ‘Abstract Link & Status’ available under menu ‘ABSTRACT’ after login to your account.
Once the abstract is approved, the status of the submitted abstract will be changed to “Accepted”.
It is mandatory that the presenting author must register as a conference delegate for inclusion of the abstract in the technical programme. To register, click on the menu ‘REGISTRATION’ after login to your account at www.nde2022.in
The link for the submission of the full paper will be activated under the same link only after acceptance of abstract and confirmed registration of the author, after which the full paper can be uploaded through the available link.

Best Paper Award:

Best Paper Awards will be given for each Presentation Type (Oral, Short and E-Poster).
Papers will be considered for evaluation of Best Paper Award only if the Full Text is uploaded at www.nde2022.in on or before the due date of submission of full text. The full text will carry a weightage of 50% for evaluation as Best Paper.

Guidelines to Authors for Preparation of Full text

The full text size is limited to 10 pages
The full text should be prepared strictly as per the Full text Submission Template of LAITON 2022.
Download Full text Template of LAITON 2022
The full text must be submitted in *.doc, *.docx or .pdf format only. No other format would be accepted by the uploading utility.

Guidelines to Authors for Submission of Full text

Login to the account at www.nde2022.in by providing the login ID and password.
Click on the link ‘Abstract List & Status’ available under menu ‘ABSTRACT’.
Please upload the full paper through the link corresponding to the accepted abstract.
Please note that the full paper can be uploaded only if the abstract is “Accepted” and the author of the paper must have been successfully registered for the conference
You will receive SMS and e-mail confirmation regarding the successful submission of full paper.

Allocation of Slots for ‘Mode of Presentation’ and Population of Accepted Abstracts

The number of available slots for each Mode of Presentation (Oral Presentation, Short Presentation and E-Poster Presentation) are fixed.
The abstracts will be approved for the ‘Mode of Presentation’ during acceptance of abstract and accordingly slot will be allotted.
The number of available slots for each ‘Mode of Presentation’ are dynamically changed and is shown at http://nde2022.in/accepted_abstract_list.php.
The accepted abstracts are also populated at http://nde2022.in/accepted_abstract_list.php as and when the abstracts are accepted.

Memorial, Plenary & Keynote Talks

Speaker Organization / Institute Title of Talk

Shri V S Jain Memorial Talk
Elliott Cramer | NASA | An Overview of Research in Nondestructive Evaluation at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Langley Research Center
Plenary Talk
K Balasubramaniam | IITM | ULTRASONIC WAVEGUIDE SENSORS FOR MEASUREMENTS IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Anil Parab | L&T; | Reliable Quality for World Class Manufacturing
Invited Talk
Shyamsunder Mandayam | GE | Next Gen Inspection: What to Expect ?
Elloit Cramer | NASA | Computational Modeling of the Thermal Response of Fiber Wrinkling in Aerospace Composites
Sarmishtha Palit Sagar | NML | Potential of Nonlinear Ultrasonic for Damage Assessment of Structural Materials
Debashish Mishra | GE | Role of Analytics for Improving Volumetric CT Inspection
DD Joshi | Insight Quality Services, Pune | NDT Training Centres – Requirements and Challenges
CV Krishnamurthy | IITM | Nondestructive techniques for material density assessment: Challenges
V Manoharan | GE, Bengaluru | Corrosion Under Insulation -Screening using Microwaves
Prabhu Rajagopal | IITM | Bend it like Baichung! The exciting possibilities for sound amplification, filtering and bending using elastic wave metamaterials
Abhijit Ganguly | IIT Tirupati | Phased array ultrasound and thermography for non-destructive evaluation of concrete structures
Umesh Kumar | BARC | Overview of our experiences in Gamma and Xrays based industrial diagnostic and imaging techniques for NDTE
Isaac Heng | Proceq | The Fourth Industrial Revolution in LAITON and NDT - Change is the only Constant
MR Bhat | IISc | Non-Destructive Evaluation of Hygro-thermal effects on Advanced Composite Structures
Abhijit Mukherjee | Curtin Univ, Australia | Non-destructive Monitoring of Infrastructure: Piezo and Laser Ultrasonic Systems
Amitava Mitra | NML | Evaluation of Residual Stress in Components using Electromagnetic Techniques
Neil Harrap | TWI | Artificial Intelligence Approaches as Tools for Auditing and Improving Data Analysis of Advanced Ultrasound Techniques in Non-Destructive Testing
Sauvik Banerjee | IITB | “Detection and Assessment of Disbonds in Sandwich and Stiffened Panels Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves and PZT Sensor Array”
Detection and Assessment of Disbonds in Sandwich and Stiffened Panels Using Built-in Ultrasonic Piezoelectric Wafer Transducers and Laser Doppler Vibrometer
David Z Fan | NTU Singapore | Corrosion monitoring of Pipelines in critical locations using ultrasonic guided wave tomography
Steve Mahaut | CEA France | Advanced LAITON methods for the in-service inspection of sodium cooled fast reactors: simulation and experimental applications
Gavin Dao | AOS - NDT | Surface Adaptive Total Focusing Method for Complex Geometry and Review of various advanced TFM-based Algorithms
Dr Prabhurajgaonkar | | Residual Stresses in engineering components and Structures: Origin, consequences and Non-Destructive Evaluation
Visvanathan Sivaraman | Deltametallurgical & Corrosion Consultants FZE, Sarjah | Responsible Use of in-situ metallography

4th Indo-French Joint Workshop of Research Collaborations in the

Field of Non destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
Mumbai, India
18th December Tuesday 2022

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

Industries depend on Non destructive Testing (NDT) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) to ensure the integrity and availability of their assets, may it be in the Energy, The Transportation, or the Manufacturing fields. Homogenization of the procedures adapted, trained and certified personnel, availability of key technologies and knowhow, etc., will ensure the adaptation of industries to the NDT and SHM technology in both countries. In this regards, an MoU has been signed by the respective NDT societies (COFREND and ISNT) of the two countries in Dec 2017 in Chennai.
Collaborations between Indian and French organizations, universities, and Industries in the field of Nondestructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring was further enhanced through the 3rd Joint workshop in the field of NDT and SHM in New Delhi on 9th March 2022 as a part of the visit by the Hon. President Macron to India.
This 4th Indo-French workshop will aim build research partnerships between Indian and French organizations/industries in the field of NDT/SHM. The workshop will feature 5ROUNDTABLE discussions with participants from India and France. The Roundtable discussion topics include (a) Establishment of a Indo-French joint research center in NDT/SHM, (b) Opportunities for joint research in Power Industries, © Opportunities for joint research in Aerospace Industries, and (d) Opportunities for joint research in process and manufacturing industries, (e) Establishment of a Indo-French higher education forum in NDT/SHM. The round-table will be bringing together a mix of participants from universities, industries, societies, and government labs from both countries.
The objectives of this round-table discussion will be to explore opportunities to develop an R&D; network comprising of Indian and French universities/institutions and the French companies in India and Indian Companies in France. This Network will aim to address R&D; problems and explore avenues for providing cost effective and relevant R&D; solutions to the industry through synergistic collaborations. The participants will comprise of researchers, industry R&D; personnel, and university faculty as well as R&D; funding agencies such as CEFIPRA.

The tentative plan of the events is as below:

09.00 - 09.30 | Inauguration and Introductions
09.30 - 11.00 | Round Table Discussion on the Establishment of an ISNT-COFREND Joint Certification Program (Moderators: RJ Pardikar ISNT and Francois Campigny COFREND)
11.00 - 11.30 | COFFEE BREAK
11.30 - 13.00 | Round Table Discussion on Education and Training (Moderators: TBD)
13.00 – 14.00 | NETWORKING LUNCH
14.00 - 15.30 | Presentations and Discussion on Topics of Common R&D; Interest & Collaboration (Moderators: TBD)
15.30 - 16.00 | Tea Break
16.00 - 17.30 | Round Table Discussion on the Establishment of an Indo-French Center for R&D; in NDT/SHM (Moderators: Pierre Calmon CEA and Krishnan Balasubramanian, IITM)
17.30 - 18.00 | Summary and conclusion of Workshop
19.00 - 21.00 | Networking Dinner

The duration for the roundtable discussions is recommended to be 90 minutes each and the typical format may involve two 10 minute presentations, one from French and one from Indian side followed by active discussions and ending with the drafting of a joint statement on the way forward with timelines. For each roundtable, the Moderatorswill have the additional responsibility of preparing and moderating the discussions and summarizing the joint statements along with action plan.

The venue and a more detailed program will be emailed shortly.

Interested participants may kindly register by sending an email to either Pierre Calmon (Pierre.CALMON@cea.fr) and/or Krishnan Balasubramaniam (balas@iitm.ac.in) with contact information including designation, organization,email id, telephone, etc.

Conference Programme at a glance

Date Time Activities

Day 1
Dec. 19, 2022 | Morning | Inauguration of Conference, ISNT Awards Presentation and Inauguration of Exhibition
Pre-Lunch | Dr. Baldev Raj Memorial Lecture by Dr. B. Venkatraman, IGCAR
Shri. V.S. Jain Memorial Lecture by Mr. K Elliott Kramer, NASA
Post Lunch | Plenary Session I
Post Tea Break | Parallel Scientific Sessions | Industry Sessions
Oil & Gas | Metals & Processing
Evening | Networking Dinner
Day 2
Dec. 20, 2022 | Morning | Parallel Scientific Sessions
Pre-Lunch | Plenary Session II
Post Lunch | Parallel Scientific Sessions | Industry Sessions
Manufacturing | Transportation
Post Tea Break | Parallel Scientific Sessions | Industry Sessions
Power | Third Party Inspection
Evening | Gala Dinner
Day 3
Dec. 21, 2022 | Morning | Parallel Scientific Sessions
Pre-Lunch | Parallel Scientific Sessions | Special Sessions
Accreditation of NDT Labs | Career Opportunities in NDT
Post-Lunch | Parallel Scientific Sessions
Post Tea Break | Valedictory Function &Presentation; of Conference & Exhibition Awards

Industry Session

NDE in Oil & Gas Industries

Date Time Name of the Speaker Organisation
19th Dec 2022 1730 to 1900 hrs Muthu Ramalingam EIL
R S Mishra ONGC
Anshuman Agarwal HMEL
Sam Habib Olympus OCAP

NDE in Metals & Processing Industries
Date | Time | Name of the Speaker | Organisation
19th Dec 2022 | 1730 to 1900 hrs | Dr. Jaydev Chandel | Jindal Saw
T S Khatayat | Well Spun
Awadhesh Kumar | Hindustan Copper
NDE in Manufacturing Industries
Date | Time | Name of the Speaker | Organisation
20th Dec 2022 | 1500 to 1630 hrs | Mr. P K Das | RIL
Mr. P. Raghavendra | L & T
Mr. Bharat Agarwal | Teekay Tubes
Mr. Anand Bhagdare | Godrej
Dr. Deepak Chandiramani | ASME Pressure Vessel commite Member
NDE in Transportation Industries
Date | TIme | Name of the Speaker | Organisation
20th Dec 2022 | 1500 to 1630 hrs | Mr. Arumugam | ISRO
Mr. Akshay Kulkarni | Toyota
Mr. Ajay Bhende | GE
Mr. Samaresh Changder | BHGE
NDE in Power Industries
Date | Time | Name of the Speaker | Organisation
20th Dec 2022 | 1700 to 1830 hrs | Christopher Rajkumar J | Thermax
Rohit Shukla | Tata Power
Mr. Sivaraman | GE
Arul Prabhu | BHEL
NDE & Third Party Inspection Services
Date | Time | Name of the Speaker | Organisation
20th Dec 2022 | 1700 to 1830 hrs | Mr. Tushar Mukherjee | RIL
Vikas Neeraj | LR
Sandeep Deshpande | TUV Nord
Hari Kishor Maddi | BVIS
Dr. Deepak Chandiramani | ASME Pressure Vessel commite Member

Special Session on Accreditation of Non-destructive Testing laboratories

Accreditation refers to formal recognition of competence of an organization to carry out specific tasks. It provides impartial & independent assessment of competence against national/international standards. Scope of accreditation includes three types of NDT organizations viz. NDT Training Institutes, Non-destructive Testing Laboratories and Certification Board. National Accreditation Board of Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) provides accreditation to testing laboratories as per ISO 17025. NABL is a member of Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC). Requirements for accreditation of certifying bodies are covered in ISO 17024:2012. National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET) provides such accreditation. Both NABL & NABET are constituent boards of Quality Council of India (QCI). NCB has formulated the guidelines for accreditation of NDT training institutes in India. Mutual recognition of NDT Certification requires compliance to ISO 9712 and ISO 17024.
NABL provides accreditation to testing labs in many disciplines including NDT. Accreditation is based on compliance to management system and technical requirements of ISO 17025 and NABL Specific Criteria. Test reports issued by NABL accredited labs are highly valued and accepted by domestic and international clients
A Special Session on Accreditation of NDT laboratories will be conducted during LAITON 2022, Conference & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation. The session will be conducted on Dec. 21, 2022 from 1130 hrs. to 1300 hrs. The session will be inaugurated by Shri. N. Venkateswaran, Director, NABL. He will also deliver a lead talk during the session. The registration fee for this session is Rs.2000 + 18% GST for each participant. The registration fee includes entry to this special session, visit to the exhibition, lunch and entry to various technical sessions conducted on Dec. 21, 2022.Registered delegates of LAITON 2022 can attend this session at no cost. The delegate registration fee details for LAITON 2022 and more information on LAITON 2022 can be obtained from www.nde2022.in.

The session will have the following presentations:

Special Session on Education & Career Opportunities in NDT

Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) is a multidisciplinary field related to engineering and deals with inspection of structures, systems and components for detection and characterization of flaws. LAITON plays a vital role in almost all the engineering industries, where it is employed as a quality control tool during manufacturing of components or for monitoring the health of components while they are in service to ensure that they operate safely without failure. Please visit https://www.nde-ed.org/AboutNDT/aboutndt.htm for more information on non-destructive evaluation.
The Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT) is the body of NDT professionals in India. The society is organizing its annual event LAITON 2022, Conference and Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation, at Mumbai from Dec. 19-21, 2022. Prior to the conference, pre-conference tutorials on various topics relevant to the industries will be conducted during Dec. 17-18, 2022. LAITON 2022 is the biggest event in the country for professionals working in the field of inspection, quality assurance and non-destructive testing (NDT). Over 40 keynote lectures and over 250 technical presentations will be delivered during the conference. Over 1000 delegates from all over the world The LAITON market in India is worth several thousand crores and growing.
Thousands of LAITON professionals are currently working in government and private sector industries at various levels within the country and abroad. A special session for the benefit of faculty and students from engineering and diploma colleges on ‘Education & Career Opportunities in NDE’ will be conducted during LAITON 2022. The session will be conducted on Dec 21 2022 from 11.30HRS to 13.00 HRS. The session will be addressed by NDT professionals working in academic institutes, research organization and industries. The objective of this sessions is to share the information on education, training, certification and career opportunities in LAITON within India and abroad with the faculty and undergraduate & postgraduate students. The registration fee for faculty and students is Rs. 2000 and Rs. 500 respectively (plus 18% GST). The fee includes participation in this special session, entry to other technical sessions, which will be held on that day, visit to exhibition and lunch. Alternatively, the faculty and students can choose to register for a full three-day event at the registration fee of Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 6000 respectively (plus 18% GST).

Registered delegate of LAITON 2022 can attend this session at no extra cost.

Memorial Lectures

Dr. Baldev Raj Memorial Lecture

Dr. B. Venkatraman
IGCAR
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Shri. V.S. Jain Memorial Lecture

Mr. K. Elliott Cramer
NASA
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Plenary Speakers

Mr. Anil Parab
Larsen & Toubro Limited
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Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam
IIT Madras
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Mr. Umakanthan Anand
RIL
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Pierre Calmon
CEA France
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Dr. Sanjay Chandra
Tata Steel
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Dr. BABU Sajeesh Kumar
ICNDT
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A K Balasubrahmanian
NPCIL
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Ashish Bhandari
BHGE
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Keynote Speakers - Scientific

Dr. Shyamsunder Mandayam
GE Global Research
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Dr. A.U. Sonawane
AERB
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Dr. Sarmishtha Palit Sagar
NML-CSIR
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Dr. B. Purna Chandra Rao
IGCAR
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Dr. Debasish Mishra
GE Global Research
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Mr. Diwakar D. Joshi
IQS
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Dr. C.V. Krishnamurthy
IIT Madras
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V. Manoharan
GE Global Research
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Dr. Anish Kumar
IGCAR
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Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal
IIT Madras
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Dr. Abhijit Ganguli
IIT Tirupati
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Dr. Umesh Kumar
BARC
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Dr. C. K. Mukhopadhyay
IGCAR
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Dr. Ralph Mennicke
Proceq Group
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Dr. Amitava Mitra
CSIR-AcSIR
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Professor Abhijit Mukherjee
Curtin University
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Dr. M R Bhat
IISc
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Prof. Joseph MOYSAN
Aix-Marseille University
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Dr. Saurabh Kabra
Science Technology facilities Council, UK

Steve Mahaut
CEA-LIST
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Neil Harrap
TWI
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Dr. Sauvik Banerjee
IIT Bombay
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Prof. Zheng Fan
Nanyang Technological Univ
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Isaac Heng
Proceq Group
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Dr Gajanan Prabhu Gaunkar
IIT Bombay
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Amar Sinha
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Krishna Mohan Reddy
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Srinivas Kuchipudi
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Keynote Speakers - Industry

P Raghavendra
L&T; Limited
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Sandeep Deshpande
TÜV NORD
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Tushar Mukherjee
RIL
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Pradip Kumar Das
RIL
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Dr. Jai Dev Singh Chandel
Jindal Saw
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Mr Vikas Neeraj
Lloyd’s Register
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Mr Anshuman Agarwal
HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited
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R Arul Prabhu
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd
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Awadhesh Kumar
Hindustan Copper Limited
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Sh. Bharat Agarwal
Teekay Tubes Pvt. Ltd
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Dr. Dipak Chandiramani
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Mr. Harikishore Maddi
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Raj Shekhar Mishra
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Mr. T.S. Kathayat
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J. Christopher Rajkumar
Themax Limited
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Mr. Rohit Shukla
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Samaresh Changdar
Baker Hughes - a GE
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Akshay Kulkarni
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Anand D Bagdare
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Sam Habib
Olympus Scientific Solutions
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R Muthu Ramalingam
EIL
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Keynote Speakers - NABL Accreditation Session

Mr. N. Venkateswaran
Director, NABL
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Sunil Mukul
Smart Technocrats and Consultancy Services (I) Pvt. ltd.
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E. Gopalkrishnan
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R Muthu Ramalingam, EIL

R Muthu Ramalingam, presently working at General Manager- SCM Inspection and is Heading, EIL RPO Pune office. He has over wide experience in inspection and expediting of fabricated equipments and rotary items at suppliers in India and abroad. He will be presenting on the Topic “ LAITON – Oil & Gas, design perspective, challenges and future perspective”.

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Sam Habib, Business Manager Olympus, Analytical Instruments Asia Pacific

Sam is physicist operating as business manager – in the Asia pacific region for Olympus Scientific Solutions based in Singapore. Sam has been working with Olympus since 2011 and has become an industry specialist in the application of field portable x-ray fluorescence & x-ray diffraction started his focus on mineral exploration, Industrial applications, mining, & environmental applications then later on getting involved with Forensics and Archeology to PMI, manufacturing, oil&Gas; and nuclear industry. Currently focused developing the pipe inspection technology for mercury contamination.
Professionally, Sam is a qualified scientist with sales and marketing experience in the scientific industry for over 18 years’. Across key markets, business consulting, sales and marketing management, product development and a keen technologist to help introduce new technology to key industry to improve process. A graduate of Sydney University in applied physics and MBA from the University of NSW. Recent activities:
Contributed the Macquarie University environmental papers on the heavy metal contaminations in urban area, assisted in the Vegie safe initiative and sponsored the university research to help develop field XRF method to survey for contaminating metals.
Consulted to 5 international companies on business development, consulted to 12 global companies on process improvement, Chaired 10 industrial events, presented at 16 global industrial and technology congress.

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Dr Gajanan Prabhu Gaunkar, IIT Bombay

Prof Gajanan Prabhu-Gaukar received his education at IIT-Bombay and University of Paris XI getting “Docteur ès Sciences” grade. He worked in idustries such as Acieries d’Imphy, a producer of superalloys and special materials, located at Imphy in the Creusot Loire valley of France, Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd, Hyderabad and Ateliers de construction Mecanique de Caen in Normady in France, in production of superalloys, quality assurance, welding of heavy structures and NDT. He joined the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology after several years of industrial experience and joined the faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he became full professor in 1987. The areas of his active research interest included Non-Destructive Evaluation, Experimental Fracture Mechanics, corrosion and it prevention, alloy design, thermo-mechanical processing, failure analysis, nano-materials and composites
Prof Prabhu-Gaunkar has served on national Governing Council and National Certification Board of ISNT and is a recipient of International Recognition Award from the Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing.
He has had active interaction with industry in India and abroad and has also served the governments; as Advisor and for technical education to the Government of Goa and also in administrative positions. He has conducted research programs and guided graduate and doctoral students including in the areas of alloy design focusing on materials for nuclear and defence and aerospace applications, stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue, fracture mechanics and applications, nano-composites, etc. . He has been a visiting Professor at prestigious universities in France, Canada, USA, South Korea, Germany and Spain. He is a recipient of the honors "Officier des Palmes Academiques and Chevalier de l’Ordre Nationale de Merite, from French Government. .He is currently serving as faculty at IIT-Goa and is in-charge of “Corporate and International Relations”

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Shri A.K. Balasubrahmanian

Shri A.K. Balasubrahmanian is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Kozhikode. After completing one year orientation course in Nuclear Science and Engineering from BARC Training School (28th Batch), he joined the erstwhile Nuclear Power Board (now NPCIL) under the Department of Atomic Energy in 1985. He has about 33 years experience in Design, Development, Engineering, Pre-project studies, Design co-ordination, Safety Review, Stress Analysis & Seismic qualification, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning of Nuclear Power Plants. He is credited with design, development and implementation of First of a kind Reactor Control & Shutdown systems for TAPS-3&4. He is equally versatile in PHWRs and LWRs, having worked in design & engineering of these reactor systems. He has participated in the preparation of Regulatory Codes and has been instrumental in obtaining Regulatory Consents & Clearances for various projects. He has experience in technical discussions with International reactor vendors.
Shri Balasubrahmanian has made significant contributions in the implementation of 220 MW, 540 MW & 700 MW PHWR projects and 1000 MW PWR (KKNPP) in the areas of his expertise. He has made extensive contributions in safe and continued operation of PHWR based stations, particularly in the area of coolant channels. Shri Balasubrahmanian has been conferred with NPCIL Technical Excellence Award and a number of other NPCIL awards in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Nuclear Power Programme.
Shri A.K. Balasubrahmanian is a Distinguished Scientist of the Department of Atomic Energy. Prior to taking over as Director (Technical) on 14th August 2018, he was working as Executive Director (Engineering) with the overall responsibility of design & engineering of PHWRs and procurement of Reactor core components, Fuel and Fuel Handling components. He is also a Member of the Board of Management of Heavy Water Board and Director in NPCIL-NALCO Power Company Ltd.

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Mr. N. Venkateswaran, Director, NABL

National Accreditation Board for testing and calibration Laboratories
Mr. Venkateswaran is a Mechanical Engineer from Madurai Kamaraj University and possesses Master’s degree - M.S (Quality Management) from BITS, Pilani.
He has developed expertise in Quality Management & various Conformity assessment standards like ISO/IEC 17011, ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC 17043, ISO 17034, ISO 15189, etc and was a member of ISO-WG 44 (Revision of ISO/IEC 17025 standard)
He has about 24 years of experience. He is APLAC PT committee Secretary and member of APLAC Technical Committee. He is an APLAC evaluator and conducted evaluation of Standards Malaysia.
He is also NABL Lead Assessor and had conducted about 50 audits in various places in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Mauritius.
He is instrumental in launch of Reference Material Producer accreditation program and also was pivotal in development of PT Provider accreditation program in the country.
He is presently Director in NABL heading Accreditation program for Testing laboratories, PT Provider and Reference Material Producers.

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Srinivas Kuchipudi

Dr Srinivas Kuchipudi, Scientist F is heading LAITON group of Directorate of NDE, Advanced systems Laboratory. He has obtained his Ph.D in Physics from Osmania University, Hyderabad and later joined DRDO as scientist. He has been working in the area of LAITON of composite structures for last 20 years. He and his team at ASL have gained considerable experience in non-destructive evaluation of composite structures using various advanced LAITON techniques. He was receipt of several awards for his work. He is member editorial board of several journals. He has about 36 international papers and several conference proceedings to his credit.

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Dr. Dipak Chandiramani

Dr. Dipak Chandiramani Completed Ph.D. in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1980
Worked for 5 years in Mazagon Dock Ltd. in the Offshore Project preparing welding procedures.
Worked for 30 years with Lloyd’s Register. Activities included review of design and inspection of ASME Certification Stamp marked pressure vessels.
ASNT Level III in RT, UT, PT and MT.
International Professional Engineer
Published many papers in national and international journals and conferences.
ASME Sec VIII committee member

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Mr. Harikishore Maddi

Mr. Harikishore Maddi, did his M. Tech. in materials Science from NIT Trichy. He has around 10 years of experience in NDT of process equipment, piping, and materials during fabrication & in service. He has hands-on working experience in all advanced NDT techniques like Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing, ToFD, Tube inspection (ECT/RFT/NFT/IRIS/MFL), Long range ultrasonic Testing and Magnetic Flux Leakage of various Pressure vessels, Piping, Heat Exchangers, Storage Tanks in India, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Abudhabi, Singapore & Yemen. He is working in Sievert India Pvt Ltd (A Bureauveritas Company) as Technical Manager-ANDT responsible for advanced NDT activities in India. He is ASNT NDT Level III in ECT, UT, LPT, MPT, RT & VT.

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R.Arul Prabhu, Deputy General Manager – Head / NDTL, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Trichy

He has a wide industrial expereince of over 18 years in Power boilers, working as an engineer in BHEL / Trichy, a government of India Undertaking.
Started his career as a Boiler designer in the year 2000, he has a vast experience in preparation of General Arrangment of boiler, Fuel firing system design, P & IDs, Design calculations, material handling systems and coal handling systems. He was instrumental in establishing the 3D PDMS based virtual walkthrough of boilers in BHEL / Trichy.
He holds M.Tech, in NDT from NIT Trichy.
He has vast experience in the NDT of power boilers and is currently heading Non Destructive Testing Laboratory / BHEL Trichy, and is responsible for raw material inspection, weld inspection, procurement of LAITON consumables and capital equipments, development of advanced LAITON technologies such as Multi directional MPI, Digital Radiograpohy, High energy LINAC, for various applications including Thermal and Nuclear power plants, defence, Valves and OFE equipments.
He was also involved in LAITON activities for Residulal Life Assessment of boilers.

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Isaac Heng, Proceq Group

Isaac Heng holds a Diploma in Mechatronics Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and Bachelor of Science Degree in Management with International Business from Royal Holloway, University of London. He began his career in 1997 as an NDT Specialist in Military and Commercial Aerospace before moving to NDT equipment Sales & Marketing in 2007. He joined Proceq in September 2017 as Senior Manager for New Product Commercialization promoting new technologies like IoT, A.I., A.R. and Big Data with the new range of Live products globally.Shortly in June 2018, he was promoted to be the Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) for Proceq Group.

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Prof. Zheng Fan, Nanyang Technological Univ

Prof. Zheng Fanobtained his PhD degree at Imperial College London, specialized in Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE). Prof Fan’s research motivation is to solve real inspection and monitoring problems in industry, achieved by conducting thorough scientific research. Prof Fan is currently an assistant professor in the school of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, leading a research teamwith more than 15 people including PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. The research focusof his team is to develop novel LAITON techniques for metal and composite inspection, structure health monitoring and material characterization, by integrating physics and modeling techniques with the development of rapidly exploitable technologies. He has collaborated with varies industries including Rolls-Royce, Shell, Lloyds Register, Sembcorpetc for different research and consultancy projects.

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Tushar Mukherjee, Reliance industries Ltd.

Mr. Tushar Mukherjee did his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from GSITS, Indore. He has over 32 years of experience, mostly in inspection of fabricated process equipment, piping, and materials with brief stints in design appraisal of static equipment e.g. pressure vessels/columns/heat exchangers, erection/commissioning and mechanical maintenance of process plant equipment. He has worked for organisations like NPCIL, Lloyd’s Register, Essar Projects and currently working for Reliance Industries Ltd. as VP, Project Procurement Inspection. He was ASME Authorized Inspector and also ASME Authorized Nuclear Inspector. He has been involved in many audits of Equipment Manufacturers for ASME Code U/U2/U3/S stamp & R stamp certifications and ASME Code stamped equipment inspections & certifications. He is ASNT NDT Level III in LPT, MPT, RT, UT.

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Umakanthan Anand, Reliance industries Ltd.

Mr. Umakanthan Anand is the Head of Reliability of Static Equipment at Reliance Industries Limited. A graduate in Science from University of Chennai followed by graduation in Metallurgical engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He has close to 30 years of experience in managing the integrity of assets in large to very large Petrochemical and Refineries. He has a deep understanding of design of static equipment and degradation mechanisms in typical refinery and Petrochemical plants. He has vast experience in application of conventional and advanced NDE’s for in service inspection of assets. He also drives development of new and advanced LAITON methods by collaborating with academia and Industry. He has a vision to bring in the next generation technology in LAITON for process plants that will be on-line and real time.

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Dr. Sanjay Chandra, Tata Steel

Dr. Sanjay Chandra obtained his B.Tech degree with the most outstanding undergraduate student award from the department of Metallurgy, Banaras Hindu University in 1983. A university gold medalist, Dr. Chandra was also awarded the Vidya Bharati award from the Indian Institute of Metals and the Hadfield Medal from the Mining Metallurgical and Geological Society of India.
Dr. Sanjay Chandra obtained his Phd. from the University of British Columbia, Canada. After occupying various leadership positions in Tata Steel Dr. Chandra currently holds the responsibility of the Chief of Research and Development. Winner of the Metallurgist of the Year Award from the Ministry of Steel in 1998, Dr. Chandra is the author of over 75 publications some of which have won awards both nationally and internationally. Dr. Chandra is the holder of 5 patents and his area of interest is mathematical modeling.

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Dr. Sauvik Banerjee, IIT Bombay

Dr. Banerjee is currently an associate professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he had spent three years as an assistant professor at the Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Saint Louis University, USA. Dr. Banerjee’s research focuses in the areas of structural health monitoring using vibration and wave propagation based approaches, ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of materials, and elastodynamic modelling of advanced composite structures. He has published 90 international journal articles and conference proceedings in these areas, including one book, two book chapters, and delivered invited talks in several important meetings. He has developed a dedicated Structural Health Monitoring and Retrofitting Laboratory and introduced two new courses, namely, Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Elastic Waves in Solids, in the postgraduate curriculum. He has been PI for several sponsored research and industrial consultancy projects worth over 12 crore Indian Rupees. One of his PhD students has been awarded Excellence in Thesis Work by IIT Bombay in August 2017. Dr. Banerjee has received Excellence in Teaching Award at Institute Level in 2013, best paper award at the SPIE conference on Smart LAITON for Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems, USA in 2003, the outstanding Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical engineering for 2003-2004 at UCLA, the outstanding MTech in Civil Engineering for 2001 at IIT Bombay, and ‘IIT-DAAD’ German scholarship in 2000-2001. He is currently an associate editor of ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems.

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Neil Harrap

Almost 40 years’ involvement in NDT:

Inspector - Multi - Sector
Manager - Several roles; aerospace, project manager, principal project manager
Lecturer - Advanced Ultrasonics
Mentor - Advanced Ultrasonics
Advanced NDT Specialist
With TWI Ltd since 2007, current role and responsibilities:

Advanced NDT Course and Business Development
E-Learning and Blended Learning
NDT Apprenticeship
Innovation in Advanced NDT - Development of Artificial Intelligence for NDT
A deep passion for NDT and the important role it plays in making our world a safer place to live. I embrace technology and believe it enhances the ability of NDT methodologies to provide an increased assurance of integrity. The human will always have a role to play in NDT; however, we must accept and exploit the added capability that technology brings to our specialist field.

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Fedor A. Gubarev, PhD

Fedor A. Gubarev, PhD, is Associate Professor of Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedicine in Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russian Federation. He received the M.Sc. in Electronics in 2003, and PhD in Physics in 2008. His PhD thesis was devoted to study of the gain media and excitation circuits of metal vapor lasers. Presently his areas of scientific interest are in NDT, photonics, lasers and their applications. He is involved in study and implementation of laser projection systems for visualization of objects through intensive background lighting. In addition, he is interested in optical methods of human brain diagnostics.
Dr. Gubarev has published around 80 reviewed research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of organizing committee of International Conference «Atomic and molecular pulsed lasers» and International Symposium “Progress in Electromagnetic Research”.

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Anil Parab, Executive Vice President, Larsen & Toubro Limited

Mr. Anil V. Parab is Mechanical Engineer from V.J.T.I., Mumbai (1982) and is working as Executive Vice President (Heavy Engineering & Nuclear) in Heavy Engineering IC. He heads Process Plant & Nuclear Business Units at Hazira, Powai & Vadodara. He is Vice Chairman of Process Plant & Machinery Association of India and Director of L&T; Special Steels and Heavy Forgings
He acquired Senior Executive Management Education from London Business School & Indian Institute of Management (Ahmadabad). He studied Computer Aided Manufacturing from IIT, Mumbai.
He possesses more than 3 decades of vast experience in Technology & Business Development.
He is Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE). He is member of Program Advisory Committee of Department of Science & Technology. He represents L&T; in various industrial forums viz. IAIF, USIBC, FICCI, CII, CHEMTECH and ASSOCHEM and actively interacts with various Ministries.
Mr.Parab is a keen Sportsman; Swimming & Running being his favourite. He regularly runs Half Marathons every year. He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Son and Daughter-in-Law.

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Prof. Joseph MOYSAN, Aix-Marseille University

Professor Joseph MOYSAN graduated from the Mechanical Engineering school ECAM Lyon in 1989 and obtained his PhD from INSA Lyon in 1992. He is now a full professor at Aix-Marseille University in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Institute of Technology in Aix en Provence.
He began research and teaching in NDT in 1993. He won the Gold Medal for the European NDT Innovation Awards in 1994 for his work concerning the automatic thresholding of ultrasound images. He developed NDT analysis for metallic welds (defects detection, grain noise analysis) and contributed to the development of the MINA model that describes weld microstructure at the ultrasonic scale. He is also interested in the development of NDT solutions for nuclear reactors. He also recently managed an extensive French program to develop innovative NDT solutions to evaluate nondestructive bond strength. He is a member of the scientific council for the French NDT association (COFREND).

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Pierre Calmon, CEA France

Pierre Calmon received in 1990 his PhD in Physics at the University of Paris XI, France. He joined the Non Destructive Evaluation Department of CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and worked on ultrasonic modelling and array imaging for difference entre cuivre et laiton. Involved in the development of the CIVA simulation platform since its beginnings he is now scientific director of the LAITON department of CEA. He is also vice president of the NDT commission at International Institute of Welding, and chairs the Scientific Hub of COFREND (French NDT Society). His current fields of interest cover LAITON reliability, simulation and advanced processing of LAITON data.

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Dr. M R BHAT, Chief Research Scientist Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Science

Dr. M R Bhat, currently a Chief Research Scientist at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, has been carrying out his academic and research activities primarily through experimental approach. His area of research has been in the field of Experimental Structures that encompasses , Non-Destructive Evaluation(NDE), Structural Health Monitoring ( SHM ) of Metallic & Advanced Composites, Smart Materials & Structures, and Fabrication & Testing of Composite materials. Dr. Bhat has been instrumental in setting up and running the well equipped LAITON and Composites Laboratories at the department where research activities in the areas of Fabrication, Testing & Evaluation of this category of materials is being pursued extensively and rigorously.
Utilizing his expertise, skill and facilities Dr. Bhat has been successful in attracting research projects worth several crores of Rupees from various funding agencies and industries. Through these he has contributed very significantly to various National Aerospace and Defence Programs and also has further enhanced the research capability of the group by augmenting the existing facilities as well as by adding newer ones.
As a part of academic activities at the department, Dr. Bhat has been into teaching by offering graduate level courses on Non-Destructive Testing & Evaluation, Smart Materials & Structures and Experimental Techniques. He has been guiding students for their M.Sc ( Engg) & Ph. D. theses as well as several dissertation projects of ME students at the department. He has been invited to be examiner to evaluate Ph.D., M.Sc (Engg) & M E / M Tech theses from IITs and other academic institutions.
Dr. M R Bhat’s expertise in the field of structural testing and evaluation has been rigorously and extensively sought by other R & D organizations and Industries to solve their problems in the field. He has been invited as a faculty in several workshops and short term courses organized by various R & D organizations, academic institutions and industries to share his expertise and knowledge as also to train their engineers in the field. He has also been invited to be on several Technical / Evaluation committees by other R & D organizations and Academic Institutions as an expert member in the field.

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Professor Abhijit Mukherjee, School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia

Professor Abhijit Mukherjee is a Civil Engineer, researcher and educator. He has taught structural mechanics, structural design, structural stability and finite element analysis courses. His industrial consultations are on structural assessment, structural rehabilitation and new structural materials. He loves to work on rehabilitation of heritage structures.
His research is on sustainable engineering practices. He approaches sustainable practices from three directions- development of new sustainable materials, monitoring health of existing infrastructure and extending life of infrastructure through rehabilitation and retrofitting.
He has been principal investigator for many research and consultation projects of national importance. He has authored several book chapters and also been editor for many books and publications.

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Dr. Amitava Mitra, CSIR-AcSIR

Dr. Amitava Mitra did his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the year 1988 in the field of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials after completion of graduation and post graduation in Physics from University of Calcutta, West Bengal,India. After carrying his Post doctoral research at Institute of Applied Magnetism, Madrid with Spanish Govt. Fellowship, Dr. Mitra joined at CSIR- National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR-NML) in the year 1990. Presently he is Chief Scientist and Head, Research Planning & Business Development Division of CSIR-NML.
Dr. Mitra so far published more than 145 papers in SCI journals, filed 15 patents and developed three technologies in the field of LAITON & Magnetic Materials.
He is recipient of

USAID fellowship and worked at Ames Laboratory & LAITON Centre of Iowa State University, USA
JSPS invitation fellowship and worked at the Institute of Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan
Short term JSPS invitation fellowship and visited Iwate University and National Institute of Materials of Japan
He was the Guest Researcher at the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain under the International Excellence Programme of Ministry of Education, Govt. of Spain.

Dr. Mitra received various prestigious awards:

National Metallurgist Day (NMD) Award: Best Metallurgist of the Year-2006 in Metal Science area awarded by Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India
National NDT award by Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing
MRSI Medal-2011 by Materials Research Society of India.
He is Fellow of

The Indian Institute of Metals,
The Indian Society for Non-destructive Testing and
The Institute of Engineers (India).
His area of interest is on development of magnetic materials for sensor applications and use of elctro-magnetic techniques for evaluation of damage in engineering components.

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Dr. Ralph Mennicke, CEO Proceq Group

Dr. Ralph Mennicke completed his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Physics at the University of York (UK) and the Technical University of Munich, and he holds an Executive MBA from Mannheim Business School. Ralph began his professional career as a global Product Manager at Proceq in 2007, with a focus on the metal testing product portfolio and an intensified engagement in the Asian markets. Subsequently, he led the business unit Proceq Europe, and was then promoted to Deputy CEO of the Proceq Group in 2012 and to CEO in 2014. Ralph held the convenorships of ISO, DIN and SNV standards groups for Leeb hardness testing, and is today engaged in the SGZP committee on ultrasonics testing.

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Dr. BABU Sajeesh Kumar, ICNDT

Dr. BABU Sajeesh Kumar has 23 years of International Experience in Energy, Refineries & Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Building & Construction Industry in the area of Quality Assurance & Control, Testing & Inspection, HSE & Business Development. Currently he is holding a position of Group Quality Director & Management Representative with Rotary Engineering Pte Ltd, Singapore.
Dr. Babu obtained his Engineering Doctorate from City University of Hong Kong and obtained his Master of Engineering from University of South Australia and Bachelor of Engineering (Construction) from Griffith Australia.
He is a Chartered Engineer from UK & Registered Professional Engineer from HK respectively. He is a Qualified NDT Level 3 including Phased Array & TOFD (ASNT/ACCP/RTC/PCN) & Welding Specialist. He has received SPRING Singapore Merit Award & SAC Assessor Gold Award.
He is currently the Chairman of the International Committee for NDT (ICNDT), Vienna & the President of Non-Destructive Testing Society (Singapore), Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Auditors, Fellow of Non-Destructive Testing Society (Singapore), Fellow of Chartered Management Institute, UK.
His specialization includes laboratory accreditation, Inspection body management, Personnel certification to ISO/IEC 17025, 17020, 17024 respectively. He has presented several papers in various international conferences addressing Non- Destructive Testing of Concrete structures, Infrared Thermography for wall tile delamination, Design and construction of high strength threaded reinforcements, Welding of stainless steel, Productivity & Reliability study of NDT for welding in construction industry, Application of NDT in storage terminals for improving productivity & reliability.

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Dr. C. K. Mukhopadhyay, IGCAR

Dr. C. K. Mukhopadhyay received B.E. from the University of Calcutta in 1982and PhD from IIT Kharagpur in 2003,both in Metallurgical Engineering. Dr. Mukhopadhyay joined Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu in 1985 after completing one year Orientation coursein Nuclear Science and Engineering from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay.Presently he isHead, Non Destructive Evaluation Division of Metallurgy and Materials Group, IGCAR. He is also Professor in Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kalpakkam.
His areas of research interests include characterization of defects, microstructure, deformation, fatigue, crack growth and fracture behavior in materials using non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. He has been working in different LAITON techniques including magnetic flux leakage, eddy current, ultrasonic, X-ray radiation, X-ray diffraction, acoustic emission and infrared thermography. He has carried out extensive studies on deformation, crack growth and fracture behaviour in materials used in nuclear as well as non-nuclear applications using acoustic emission and thermography. He has used acoustic emission technique for process monitoring studies including machining and forging. He has contributed significantly for the assessment of structural integrity of components of petrochemical industry, nuclear plants and aerospace industry. His expertise has also been used by other strategic and core departments like defence and space.He was a visiting scientist in Shanghai Research Institute of Materials, China, 2003. He was a post-doctoral research fellow in the University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA during 2006-2007and worked in the area high temperature tensile deformation, crack growth and fracture toughness of Ni-base alloys.
He has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences including article in Encyclopedia of Material Science and one Book. He has guided more than 20 M. Tech and B. Tech theses and currently guiding 6 PhD thesis.He received many awards including 10 best paper awards in different Seminars and Conferences, DAE Group Achievement Award (2016) for “Development and Qualification of PFBR Steam Generator Inspection System (PSGIS) and Inspection of Eight Steam Generators (SGs) using PSGI”, ‘Dr. S. Parthasarathy Award’ by Ultrasonic Society of India 2009, ISNT-NDT Man of the Year Award (R & D) 2007, and Steel Authority of India Ltd. Gold Medal for best paper in the Transactions of The Indian Institute of Metals 1999.He has been invited to deliver lectures and chair sessions in many events in India and abroad.He is Life Member of different professional societies. He is Reviewer of technical articles for various National and International Journals and Member of Editorial Board of different journals.He has also served as Member, Doctoral Advisory Committee in different universities.

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Dr. Umesh Kumar, BARC

Dr. Umesh Kumar is at present Head of Industrial Tomography and Instrumentation Section at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. He joined BARC in 1989 after successfully completing one-year OCES (Physics) programme of BARC Training School. He obtained his Ph.D. (Sc) from the University of Mumbai in 2004. He has almost twenty eight years of experience in research and development activities in radiation and radioisotope based imaging and computed tomography for industrial applications. His research interests include nuclear radiation-based industrial radiology, digital radiography and computed tomography for Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E;). Dr. Umesh Kumar has been awarded the DAE Scientific and Technical Excellence Award 2007 for his contributions in the field of advanced nuclear imaging for industrial applications. He is also recipient of the NDT Achievement Award (Research and Development) 2009 by the Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing, ISNT (Mumbai).
He has served as the National Project Coordinator (NPC, India) and Lead Country Coordinator (LCC) for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) coordinated Projects in the Asia-Pacific (RCA) Region on advanced digital imaging techniques and industrial computed tomography. He has also served as an international expert for the Technical Cooperation (TC) Evaluation of TC Equipment in Brazil for the Agency and as an instructor for the IAEA Regional Training Course (RTC) in industrial applications of advanced radiation based imaging held at KAERI, South Korea. He has been Course Director for two IAEA Regional Training Programmes held in India on DR&CT; for international participants and also conducted a national workshop on digital imaging which was organized by the Indian Nuclear Society. Dr. Umesh Kumar was one of the international speakers invited by the IAEA to deliver a technical talk on Computed Tomography for Industry – Needs and Status, at the Scientific Forum held during the General Conference in September 2015 at IAEA HQ, Vienna, Austria.
He is a life member of Indian Society for Non-destructive testing (ISNT), National Association for Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in Industry (NAARRI) and Indian Nuclear Society (INS).

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Dr. Abhijit Ganguli, IIT Tirupati

Dr. Abhijit Ganguli is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. Before joining IIT Tirupati, he was an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Dr. Ganguli received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and the Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur. He worked with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Boston, USA as a postdoctoral researcher. Subsequently, he was an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Dr. Ganguli has extensively worked on computational and experimental phased array ultrasound as a tool for nondestructive evaluation of concrete structures. Currently, his research group is working on development of multimodal geophysical imaging techniques for evaluation of large scale concrete structures. Dr. Ganguli is the recipient of the Kusuma Outstanding Faculty Fellowship Award from IIT Delhi.

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Mr. K. Elliott Cramer, NASA

Mr. Cramer is currently the Head of the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch in the Research Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. Mr. Cramer provides strategic leadership and technical guidance for a team of 25 researchers in the development of novel nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques in support of the NASA missions in space operations, exploration and aeronautics. Prior to his management position, he was a senior LAITON researcher with specialties including experimental techniques for thermal and ultrasonic LAITON as well as computational modeling of energy propagation in materials. Mr. Cramer holds 13 U.S. patents on various inventions, including NASA’s Ultrasonic Wire Crimp Inspection Technology, winner of the 2009 NASA Government Invention of the Year Award. Mr. Cramer is a recipient of a NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, the NASA Space Flight Awareness Award (Silver Snoopy) and an Outstanding Leadership Medal. During his career, Mr. Cramer has authored more than 85 conference and journal publications. Mr. Cramer hold a B.S. in Physics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in Applied Science from the College of William and Mary.

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Dr. Anish Kumar, IGCAR

Dr. Anish Kumar is heading Ultrasonic Measurements Section of LAITON Division in Metallurgy and Materials Group at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. He obtained B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri in 1996 and Ph.D from IIT, Kharagpur in 2005. In the past 21 years, he has been involved in the non-destructive microstructural characterization in a wide range of alloy systems using acoustic and magnetic techniques and development of innovative methodologies for ultrasonic inspection of fast breeder reactor components. He worked as post-doctoral fellows at Fraunhofer Institute for NDT (IZFP), Germany (as Alexander von Humboldt fellow) and the University of Michigan, USA for one year each. He has over 125 publications to his credit including 95 publications in peer reviewed international journals. He is the recipient of Science & Technology Excellence Award (2015) from Dept. of Atomic Energy, National NDT Award in R&D; (2015) from Indian Society for NDT (ISNT) and several young researcher/ scientist awards from various Indian and International societies, such as Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS-USA), International Committee for NDT (ICNDT) and ISNT.

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Mr. Diwakar D. Joshi, IQS

Mr. Diwakar Joshi, Director, Insight Quality Services (working in the field of Training, Consultancy, Inspection and NDT services) and Insight Global FZE, U.A.E., is basically a mechanical engineer having more than 40 years’ experience in QA/QC and NDT field. He has worked with prestigious organizations like Walchandnagar Industries Ltd., Alfa Laval India Ltd., PT. Puspetindo, Indonesia and PT. Balcke-Durr Indonesia.
He is a qualified Lead Assessor for ISO 9000, qualified ASNT Level III in RT, UT,MT,PT,VT,LT,ET, ACCP Level III, Senior Certified Welding Inspector of AWS, API 510, API 653, API 570, API 571, API 577, API 580 Inspector, API 936 Refractory Practitioner, API Source Inspector Fixed Equipment and API Tank Entry Supervisor.

He is a member of many institutes, like BINDT, AWS, ASNT, ASM, SWS, ISNT and NCB. He has many national and international papers to his credit and is currently the Vice President of Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT). Mr. Joshi is now an approved member of ICNDT – WG1, (International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing – Working Group – 1) representing ISNT (India Society for Non Destructive Testing) for Training and Certification.

He has hands-on Experience of Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers, ASME U, U2 and N (Nuclear) Stamp Vessels, in-service inspection of the refinery equipments, and is NDT Level III for reputed fabrication companies. He has also worked for shutdown inspection in Saudi Arabia and off-shore platform inspection in Middle East.

Has conducted training courses in India, Singapore, Bangkok (Thailand), Indonesia, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, UAE etc. and has trained and certified more than 9000 QA/QC Personnel, with over a 1000 training programs in various disciplines to his credit.
Presently, apart from Consultancy, Mr. Joshi is devoting major time in Training in the areas like API 510 / 653 / 570 / 580 / 577 / SIFE exams, AWS (CWI) exams, ASNT Level III exams, Train the Trainers and ASME Code Specific programs.

The following API Courses (more than 100 programs) are conducted for Qatar Petroleum, Aramco, Bapco, Reliance, IOCL and other refineries and also in Insight Quality Services in Pune and Chennai:

API 510 - Qatar Petroleum, Bapco, IOCL, Reliance, IQS
API 570 - Qatar Petroleum, Bapco, IOCL, Reliance, IQS
API 653 - Qatar Petroleum, Bapco, IOCL, Reliance, IQS, Aramco
API 580 - Qatar Petroleum, IQS
API 571 - IQS, IGF
API 577 - IQS, IGF
API SIFE- IGF
Insight Quality Services is accredited by NCB-ISNT, and has worked for almost all multinationals and corporate houses in India during its 23 years’ existence.

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Dr. B. Purna Chandra Rao, IGCAR

Dr. B. Purna Chandra Rao is an outstanding scientist and associate director of Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Facility (FRFCF) as well as Head of Quality Assurance Division (QAD) of IGCAR, Kalpakkam. He focused research in NDE, quality assurance, microstructure characterisation, in-service inspection, condition monitoring and failure analysis by giving special emphasis to modelling, sensor development, signal & image processing and artificial intelligence. He published more than 200 research papers. He received Homi Bhabha Science & Technology award of DAE, National NDT award & International recognition award of ISNT and Indian Nuclear Society Gold Medal, and several DAE group achievement awards.
As a professor of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Dr. Rao guided 11 PhDs. He is a member of the international standing committee of electromagnetic LAITON and Chairman of NDT sectional committee of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Dr. Rao was the head of LAITON Division, Metallurgy & Materials Group, IGCAR. He obtained PhD from Saarland University, Germany. He was a visiting scientist at Centre for NDE, Iowa State University, guest scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for NDT, Saarbrucken and an Expert NDT Consultant at IAEA, Vienna.

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Dr. B. Venkatraman, IGCAR

Dr. B. Venkatraman, M.Sc in Physics and PhD in LAITON (Thermal LAITON for materials characterization and weld monitoring) has over 33 years of experience in combining the physics of LAITON with engineering and technology to provide R & D support and robust LAITON based solutions to technologically challenging problems in the nuclear and other strategic / core industries. His interest is in the areas of digital X-ray, gamma and neutron radiography, infrared thermography, structural health monitoring through IOT. He is the past president of Asian Pacific Committee on NDT, Convener, Task Group – 4 on Education and Research, Asian Pacific Federation of NDT, Honorary Fellow of Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing and President American Society for NDT (ASNT) – India Section. He is the series editor along with Dr. Baldev Raj for the NDT handbooks on Radiographic Testing, Ultrasonics, Eddy Current Testing and Acoustic Emission testing published by National Certification Board, ISNT. He is the recipient of Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award 2007 for Individual Excellence, more than 5 Group Achievement Awards of DAE, INS Gold Medal 2005, ISNT-NDT Man of the Year Award (R & D) 2001, D & H Schereon Award, 1993, ISNT international recognition 2013, IIW Sharp Tools award 2011 and has won more than 10 best paper awards. Presently, he is an Outstanding Scientist and Director, Health Safety and Environment Group and Director, Resource Management and Public Awareness Group at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam.

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V. Manoharan, GE Global Research, Bengaluru

V.Manoharan is currently working as a Senior Scientist at GE Global Research center Bangalore since 2001. Prior to join GE, He worked as scientific officer at Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and Division of Post Irradiation Examination and NDT development, Indira Gandhi Center for atomic research for 13 years. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of Research in NDE.
He received National NDT award from Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing for his contribution in LAITON research.
He has completed his post graduate diploma in radiological physics from Bhabha Atomic research center and obtained Level-III certification in radiography, IR, UT, LPT and ECT from American Society for Nondestructive testing. His area of interest is Digital x-ray imaging, Positron annihilation spectroscopy, quantitative radiography Model based PoD , Applications of Micro and Nano x-ray computed tomography , Pipeline and pressure vessels integrity and Training in NDE.
He has more than 15 issued patents & patents applications and 30 technical publications in national and international journals & conferences

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Dr. Debasish Mishra, GE

Dr. Debasish Mishra graduated from University of Roorkee with a post-graduate degree specializing in Engineering Physics. He then joined IIT Kanpur for M. Tech and Ph.D program in Nuclear Engineering. Debasish is a recipient of the prestigious Dr. K. S. Krishnan Fellowship of the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India and Young Scientist Award from the Indian Science Congress Association.
Debasish worked at State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook as a Research Scientist and at the Idaho State University as a Research Assistant Professor. He joined at GE Global Research Center in June 2003. Currently he leads the Non-destructive Evaluation research group at GE Global Research Centre Bangalore.
Debasish has worked in laser/optical interferometry, digital radiography, computed tomography application for non-destructive evaluation of materials.

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Dr. (Ms.) Sarmishtha Palit Sagar, NML-CSIR, Jamshedpur

Dr. (Ms.) Sarmishtha Palit Sagar, has been involved in the field of Non-destructive evaluation for more than 20 years and is currently a Senior Principal Scientist and serves as the Head of the LAITON & magnetic materials (MM) group at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. She has worked as a visiting Scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Non-destructive Testing, Saarbreucken, Germany from 2000-2002 and researched on guided wave ultrasound under Prof J L Rose at Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2009. She has been elected as a member of the editorial board of the Korean Journal of NDE, selected as a member of the Technical committee of many international conferences like QIRT, APCNDT and World Conference on NDT. She has been awarded National NDT Award in “R&D;” in the year 2005 and for “International Recognition” in 2017 by Indian Society for NDT. Institute of Engineers conferred on her the “Lady Engineer” award in the year 2012, Tata Innovista Regional Award in 2015 by Tata Groups. CSIR, India has awarded her Raman Research Fellowship award in 2008 to work at Pennsylvania State University.
She was invited as one of the key note speakers by Prof Jhang of Hanyang University, South Korea for the workshop on “Recent and future trends of non-linear ultrasonic”.
She is having 58 Publications in SCI and Non-SCI journals, 07 Patents and 05 copyrights in her credit. She has guided several Masters Students. Her experience in guiding research in LAITON has seen her appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the prestigious European Project NOMAD under HORIZON 2020 in which 6 European Countries are involved.

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Dr. A.U. Sonawane, AERB

Dr. Avinash Uddhav Sonawane joined the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) in 1987 after his completion of Post-Graduation in Physics from the Department of Physics, University of Pune. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Mumbai. He is presently acting as Head of the Directorate of Regulatory Affairs & Communications (DRA&C;) of AERB. DRA&C; is mainly responsible to prepare and review regulations and documents on radiation safety in handling of ionising radiation sources for societal benefits, establish technical cooperation and liaison with academic institutions/professional bodies on nuclear and radiation safety matters, communications & spreading wide awareness and education regarding radiation safety among users of ionising of radiation sources. He has been empanelled as Assessor by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) for Medical Imaging Services (MIS). Dr. Sonawane is a recipient of the Gold Medal of Indian Nuclear Society (INS) for his significant and outstanding contribution in establishing regulatory framework for ensuring safe usages of radiation sources in the country. He has been honored by ISNT, Mumbai Chapter with NDT Achievement Award -2013 for Training/Education.
He is the national point of Contact (PoC) in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, for the safety and security of radiation sources and IAEA-ITDB programme. He was recently involved by IAEA as an Expert for carrying out IAEA-IRRS mission to South Africa.

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Dr. C.V. Krishnamurthy, IIT Madras, Chennai

C.V.Krishnamurthy is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT Madras and is also affiliated to the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at IIT Madras. He obtained his PhD from IIT Madras in 1989. In the past, he had participated in contract research for the Indian Navy developing and delivering a product for on-board tactical use of RADARs. While at CNDE, he developed quantitative ultrasonic transducer models and had participated in the ultrasound benchmark problems set by the World Federation of LAITON Centers. He has developed a computed point spread function approach for ultrasonic imaging applications. He has supervised the development of ray-tracing models and FDTD models for ultrasound propagation which has formed the basis for a commercial product that is currently available. He is currently the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator in several research projects funded by DST, DAE, ADA, ISRO and DRDO organizations. He was involved in the IGCAR funded project on the development of an Under-Sodium Imaging scheme for reactor vessel inspection. With BRNS funding, he has initiated the development of quantitative models to characterize elastic wave propagation and heat diffusion in polycrystalline metals and heterogenous media. As a Co-PI of the Indo-German program, AMPLAST, he is currently involved in the development of non-contact techniques for determination of temperature and emissivity of materials at high temperatures using infrared radiation. The on-going project with ASL (DRDO) involves the development of capacitance imaging and free space technique for material characterization. He has co-guided an MS thesis on new designs for ground penetrating radar as part of interdisciplinary program at IIT Madras.
His current research focus is in the development of experimental and computational techniques for electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation of material and defect characteristics. He actively collaborates with the Department of Engineering Design on the development of electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation techniques.
He has written a series of articles on advanced non-destructive imaging techniques under the feature HORIZON for the Journal for Nondestructive Evaluation (ISNT).
He has over 120 technical publications and has presented papers at several national and international conferences.
He is a Life Fellow of the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing (ISNT).
He is a co-recipient of prestigious DRDO Academy Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding and Internationally recognized contribution in the field of NDT in collaboration with DRDO Laboratories leading to innovative and implementable products for DRDO Stakeholders’ as Head, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, IIT Madras (Award for year 2015, received in April 2017).

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Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam, IIT Madras, Chennai

Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam has been involved in the field of Non-destructive evaluation for more than Thirty years with applications in the fields of maintenance, quality assurance, manufacturing and design. His areas of research interests include Nondestructive evaluation, in-process monitoring, structural health monitoring, and applied data analysis. He is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Dean for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and also serves as the Head of the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation which he founded in 2001.
He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras (Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli, India) in 1984. He then graduated from Drexel University with a M.S. degree in 1986 and a Ph.D. in the year 1989. Before joining IIT Madras in 2000, he was employed at Mississippi State University. He has over 400 technical publications (including 200 refereed journal papers), 16 patents filings and has directed 22 PHD student dissertations and 46 MS student theses.
In recognition for his outstanding contributions to research in the field of Nondestructive Evaluation, he was conferred with the ROY SHARPE PRIZE by the British Institute for NDT for the year 2012. He was also awarded the ISTEM Entrepreneurial Faculty Member Award for his entrepreneurial activities by Auburn University, USA in 2011 and the NATIONAL NDT AWARD 2010 by the Indian Society for NDT. He also was conferred the DRDO Academy Excellence Award for 2015. He has also been bestowed with the prestigious ABDUL KALAM National Technology Innovation Fellowship in 2018.
He has been instrumental in the incubation of several startups including Dhvani Research, Playns Technologies, Detect Technologies, Maximl Labs, Trotix Robotics, HyperVerge, and OP Tech and has jointly developed several new products through these companies.
He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Nondestructive Evaluation (ISNT) and as the South-east Asia Editor for the Journal of Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (Taylor and Francis). He also serves as the Associate Editor of Ultrasonics (Elsevier) and serves in the editorial board of the Journal of Structural Longevity (Techscience). He also is a board member of the World Federation of LAITON Centers and the QNDE Scientific Advisor Committee.
He is a Life Fellow of the Academia NDT International, Life Fellow of the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing (ISNT) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers.

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Dr. Shyamsunder Mandayam, GE Global Research, Bengaluru

Dr. Shyamsunder obtained his Bachelors degree in Metallurgical Engg. in 1983 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India, and attended the 27th batch of BARC Training School for a one year Orientation Course Nuclear Science and Engineering at Mumbai. He worked as a Senior scientist at the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam from 1984 to 2000 in the area of R & D in Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and Inspection techniques aimed at improving the sensitivity and reliability of defect detection and characterization leading to improved condition monitoring for structural integrity assessment of engineering components and structures in a wide variety of industries including nuclear, aerospace, defence, petrochemical and others. He obtained his Ph.D from IIT-Kharagpur in 1998 in area of applying pattern recognition techniques to LAITON for better reliability and enabling automation. Since 2000, he is working at the GE Global Research Center, Bangalore where he was responsible for incubating the LAITON Lab and a team at the newly formed research Centre. He has taken on several roles at GE in the last 17+ years including, Project Leader, Program leader, COE Leader, Lab Manager, Platform Leader, Quality Leader and is currently a Principal Scientist for the LAITON / Inspection area driving the vision and the roadmap for developing cutting edge technologies for the next frontiers in LAITON for both metallic and non-metallic materials related to the aerospace, energy, oil and gas industries primarily in the area of Damage detection, Life estimation, Residual stresses, Sensor design/optimization, Probability of Detection. Dr.Shyamsunder is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a Level 3 TRIZ (Thepry of Inventive Problem Solving) Expert certified by MATRIZ – International TRIZ Association, Russia. He is also a certified American Society for NDT (ASNT) Level III in Eddy current, Magnetic particle Testing and Magnetic Flux Leakage testing. He has filed 8 patents and authored about 175 publications in journals, conference proceedings and books including a BIS standard and over 40 inspection procedures to his credit. He has delivered more than 50 Invited talks at National and International conferences and at various academic and research institutes. He is a regular faculty member for Lean six sigma, TRIZ, Edison Development program and several certification NDT courses and Workshops.
He was awarded the “National NDT Award in the R & D Category” in 1999 by the Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing (ISNT), the GE India’s “JRD Tata Award of Excellence for Building Reputation” in 2010 and GE Global Research’s Whitney Team Award in 2016.
He is a Life Fellow of ISNT, Life member of ASNT, MSI and AMSI and currently the Chairman, National Certification Board of ISNT.

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Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal, IIT Madras, Chennai

Prabhu Rajagopal is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an Associate of the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation at IIT Madras (IITM). After graduating from IIT Madras in 2003 with a Dual Degree Masters in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Intelligent Manufacturing, he obtained his PhD in Ultrasonic LAITON from Imperial College London, UK in 2007. As a post-doctoral researcher, he developed advanced computational tools for inspection of welds on a Rolls Royce funded project, also at Imperial (2008-2010). Joining IITM in Dec 2010, Dr. Rajagopal is currently Principal or CoInvestigator about 12 agency and industry sponsored projects, with a total value of over 10 Crore INR (about half of that as PI), and has contributed over 100 technical articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and 9 Indian patent filings. He serves on the editorial board of ISNT Journal of LAITON and is the Principal IITM Member on National Standardization Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards and engages actively with industry. His areas of interest include strategies for inspection of structures under challenging conditions, and high resolution ultrasonic imaging using structured and topographic metamaterials. His research is strongly collaborative and international, with joint projects/publications with groups from universities such as Swinburne UT, Australia (with whom he has a joint PhD student), U.Nairobi Kenya (joint PhD), NTU Singapore, ZUT Poland, U. Warwick UK, U. Bordeaux France, MSU USA and ETS Montreal, Canada. He is a co-founding Director of the underwater and submersible robotics StartupPlanys Technologies Pvt. Ltd which licenses his IP filing on automated submerged pipeline inspections. His work has been recognized by the Indian Society for NDT through the National Young Scientist Award and the Institution of Engineers (India) through the National Design Award, both for the year 2016. More recently, he was awarded the prestigious ISSS Young Scientist Award by Institute of Smart Structures and Systems, IISc Bangalore, in recognition of his work on robotic LAITON & SHM. He is co-recipient of the prestigious DRDO Academy Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding and Internationally recognized contribution in the field of NDT in collaboration with DRDO Laboratories leading to innovative and implementable products for DRDO Stakeholders’ as an Associate of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, IIT Madras (Award for year 2015, received in April 2017)

Pre-Conference Tutorials

Pre-Conference Tutorials (PCT) will be conducted during Dec. 17-18, 2018 at Navi Mumbai, close to the venue of LAITON 2018. It is planned to conduct the PCT on the following topics:

NDE for Oil & Gas Industries (Click Here)
NDE for Boilers (Click Here)
NDE during Quality Assurance in Manufacturing Industries (Click Here) - (Venue changed to Regenta By Tunga, Vashi – Navi Mumbai)
NDE for Concrete Structures (Tutorial Cancelled)
Fundamentals and Applications of Neutron Radiography (Tutorial Cancelled)
The faculty for PCT will comprise of eminent speakers from academic institutes, research centres and industries. Apart from the fundamentals, interesting case studies will be presented during PCT. Live demonstration of NDT equipments, which are relevant to the topic, will be made during PCT.

Registration Fees :

Category Registration Fees*
ISNT Member 6,000
ISNT Non-Member 7,000
Students 4,000

Notes :

Modes of Registration

On-line Registration (Individual)
Please sign-in to your LAITON 2018 account. Click here to create one, if you do not have an account with LAITON 2018.
Click on ‘Registration’
Choose: Pre-Conference Tutorial or Pre-Conference Tutorial + LAITON 2018.
Select one of the five topics you are interested to attend.
Fill in all the required details.
Select the payment type as online and follow the payment process.
Once the payment is made through the payment gateway, you will receive the ‘Confirmation Email’ containing your details and ‘Delegate Registration ID’. Kindly bring this Confirmation Email to the pre -conference tutorial.
If the payment is processed and ‘Confirmation Email’ is not generated, please write an email to info@nde2018.in
Student Delegate must upload a letter from HOD/Principal of the college/university mentioning that the concerned delegate is the student of that college/university
Off-line Registration (Individual)
Please sign-in to your LAITON 2018 account. Click here to create one, if you do not have an account with LAITON 2018.
Click on ‘Registration’ and fill in the required details.
Choose: Pre-Conference Tutorial or Pre-Conference Tutorial + LAITON 2018.
Select one of the five topics you are interested to attend.
Select the payment type as offline.
Kindly upload scanned copy of Demand Draft/Cheque or NEFT receipt and submit the form. You will receive the confirmation email regarding submission of registration form.
Once the payment is received in the conference account, you will receive the ‘Confirmation Email’ containing your details and ‘Delegate Registration ID’. Kindly bring this Confirmation Email to the pre - conference tutorial.
Student Delegate must upload a letter from HOD/Principal of the college/university mentioning that the concerned delegate is the student of that college/university
Bulk Registration
For Bulk registration please contact below
Name : Karan Chaudhary
Email : secretariat@nde2018.in
Mobile : 09717975700

Delegate Registration

Registration for LAITON 2018 as a delegate comes with several benefits. Delegates have complete access to the technical programme & the exhibition area, and access to lunch, dinner and entertainment programmes. Delegates also get an opportunity to present the paper in the technical sessions. The registered delegates will be given a ‘Certificate of Attendance’ (max. 20 hrs of technical lectures), which can be used as a supporting document for renewal of NDT Level III certificates.

Registration Fees

Category Registration Fees*
ISNT Member (till Dec. 15, 2018) 10,000
ISNT Non-Member (till Dec. 15, 2018) 12,000
ISNT Member (after Dec. 15, 2018) 12,000
ISNT Non-Member (after Dec. 15, 2018) 14,000
Accompanying Spouse 6,000
Students 5,000
Foreign Delegates US
Foreign Delegates with accompanying spouse US

Modes of Registration

On-line Registration (Individual)
Please sign-in to your LAITON 2018 account. Click here to create one, if you do not have an account with LAITON 2018.
Click on ‘Registration’ and fill in the required details.
Select the payment type as online and follow the payment process.
Once the payment is made through the payment gateway, you will receive the ‘Confirmation Email’ containing your details and ‘Delegate Registration ID’. Kindly bring this Confirmation Email to the conference.
If the payment is processed and ‘Confirmation Email’ is not generated, please write an email to info@nde2018.in.
Student Delegate must upload a letter from HOD/Principal of the college/university mentioning that the concerned delegate is the student of that college/university.
Off-line Registration (Individual)
Please sign-in to your LAITON 2018 account. Click here to create one, if you do not have an account with LAITON 2018.
Click on ‘Registration’ and fill in the required details.
Select the payment type as offline.
Kindly upload scanned copy of Demand Draft/Cheque or NEFT receipt and submit the form. You will receive the confirmation email regarding submission of registration form.
Once the payment is received in the conference account, you will receive the ‘Confirmation Email’ containing your details and ‘Delegate Registration ID’. Kindly bring this Confirmation Email to the conference.
Student Delegate must upload a letter from HOD/Principal of the college/university mentioning that the concerned delegate is the student of that college/university
Cheque / Demand Draft to drawn in favour of ‘’Indian Society for Non - Destructive Testing ‘’

Bank Details:

Beneficiary Name : Indian Society for Non - Destructive Testing
Bank : Syndicate Bank
Branch : 226, S V Road, Jogeshwari (West), Mumbai 400102
Account No : 50572010037463
IFSC Code : SYNB0005057
MICR Code : 400025054
SWIFT Code : SYNBINBB124
PAN : AAAAI4749P
GSTIN No. : 27AAAAI4749P2Z2

Bulk Registration

For Bulk registration please contact below
Name : Karan Chaudhary
Email : secretariat@nde2018.in
Mobile : 09717975700

Hotel List

Hotel Name Category Single Double Room Type Distance from Venue
Sheraton 4 star Sold Out Sold Out Comfort Room 400 m
Sheraton 4 star Sold Out Sold Out Comfort Club Room 400 m
Tunga 4 star Sold Out Sold Out Classic 230 m
Fortune Exotica 4 star 5500 6500 Standard 2.9 km
Royal Orchid Central Grazia, Navi Mumbai 4 star 4500 5500 Deluxe room 4.5 km
The Park 4 star 4200 N/A Studio single ocupancy only 9 km
The Park 4 star 5200 6400 Deluxe room 9 km
Yogi Executive 3 star 4300 5300 Premier room 2 km
Abbott budget 4200 4700 Deluxe room 750 m
Yogi Metropolitan budget 3300 4300 Deluxe room 2 km

Notes :
“The above mentioned room rates are valid till 30th September 2018 , after which the rooms will be on subject to availablity at the Hotel and higher rates may be charged”
Above hotel rates are inclusive of buffet breakfast and exclusive of applicable taxes

Hotel Booking Guidelines

Single Occupancy : Only one person can stay
Double Occupancy : Only Two people can stay
Check-in time at the Hotels is 2 pm(1400 hours) IST and check-out time is 12 noon (1200 hours) IST. In case you are arriving early, room has to be booked from the previous nights for immediate occupancy.

Inclusions :
The above room rates are on per room per night basis only.
The above room tariff is inclusive of buffet breakfast at the buffet designated area.
All applicable Hotel taxes are additional
Exclusions :
GST will be applicable on total billing as per the below slab:
Room tariff less than INR 7500- 18% GST
Room tariff more than INR 7500 – 28% GST

Terms & Conditions :

To get confirmed accommodation, please book early.
The Government reserves the rights to revise the taxes. The same shall be applicable.
Limited Rooms are available and will be allotted on first come first serve basis,subject to availability.
Rooms will be confirmed against 100% advance payment only.
Early check in and late checkout is subject to availability and additional charges will levied.
Personal expenses such as telephone calls, food & beverage bills, room service and use of mini bar should be paid by the guest directly to the hotel at the time of check out.
Hotels once confirmed will be non-refundable, No changes will be entertained.

Payment Methods :

Demand Draft :
The DD should be in favour of “Elbon Conferences and Events Pvt Ltd”
To be send on the address: Elbon Conferences and Meetings Pvt Ltd , 29 Regal Building , Parliament Street , Connaught Place , New Delhi - 110001
Online Money Transfer (NEFT/RTGS) :
Bank details given below (YES BANK):
Account Name: ELBON CONFERENCES & EVENTS PVT. LTD
Account Number: 013663700001361
Swift Code: YESBINBBDEL
IFSC Code: YESB0000136
Branch Code: 0136
Branch Address: YES BANK Ltd | 56 Janpath, Alps Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001
Credit Card :
The Pay U Payment gateway link will be shared on request via email for making payment. The additional 3.5% will be added in the final billing as bank charges.
Cancellation Policy :
Post confirmation of the hotel booking, 100% retention charges will be applicable for any cancellation received.

For Queries& Group Bookings Please Contact :
Name : Karan Chaudhary
Email : karanchaudhary@elbonmeetings.com
Mobile : 9717975700
Name : Vishal Rathour
Email : vishalrathour@elbonmeetings.com
Mobile : 8860084448