NEXT-GENERATION NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION

Key Recommendations

In line with MForesight’s mission of providing coordinated input from the manufacturing community to inform national priorities in advanced manufacturing, the advanced manufacturing community found three clear and actionable recommendations to advanced U.S. competitiveness in rapid reliability assessment of safety-critical critical and emerging technologies:

1) Establish a multi-agency federal research initiative to advance nondestructive evaluation capabilities to support advanced manufacturing.

2) Initiate a comprehensive nondestructive evaluation benchmarking program to accelerate nondestructive evaluation development and implementation through novel physical and digital benchmarks.

3) Accelerate new technology implementation through the creation of a national nondestructive evaluation research and user facility and a nondestructive evaluation workforce development working group.

Rapid Realibility Assesment Report

KEYNOTE SPEAKER & STEERING COMMUNITY

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Gary Georgeson


Gary Georgeson, NDT Senior Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company

Gary Georgeson is the Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in Nondestructive Evaluation/Testing (NDE/NDT), where he has worked since 1988 in Seattle, Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering/Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Gary provides the strategy and roadmaps for NDE of aerospace structures during both manufacturing and aircraft service. As Boeing’s most prolific inventor, he has developed or co-developed numerous NDE systems and methods (200+ patents), particularly related to composite structure validation. Gary is the co-inventor of the Boeing Blade Crawler and Boeing ROVER, which were developed for automated in-service inspection of aerospace structures. His innovations have supported various Boeing platforms and helped Boeing win contract R&D programs from the USAF, USN, NASA, TTCI, and the FAA. Gary is often called upon by the U.S. government and industry for advisory roles regarding NDE. He is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences, having spoken about NDE in Spain, Singapore, Germany, Brazil, China, and France, as well as the U.S.

STEERING COMMUNITY

Leonard Bond

Leonard Bond

Professor, Iowa State University

Waled Hassan

Waled Hassan

RR Associate Fellow: Materials – NDT/E, Rolls-Royce North America

Shana Telesz

Shana Telesz

Global Product Manager, Radiography Systems, Baker Hughes

Paul Zombo

Paul Zombo

Service, Materials, and Technology Manager, Siemens Energy

Overview/Motivation

The American manufacturing sector prides itself on the quality, reliability, safety, and novelty of its advanced manufactured goods. Tools that evaluate parts and processes without causing damage are a cornerstone for delivering these valuable attributes. Leading the way in developing and implementing more accurate, reliable, and effective nonddestructive evaluation (NDE) tools is critical to U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. Emerging technologies and operational requirements are driving the need for the next generation of NDE. As composites emerge as ubiquitous structural and mechanical components in a range of manufactured goods, optimal evaluation requires leveraging new technologies. Likewise, as additive manufacturing takes an increasing role in manufacturing critical components, it becomes essential to overcome the unprecedented challenges of evaluating these complex geometries. For ceramics, improving the probability of detection is vital for finding defects on ever-shrinking length-scales. Improving the speed, accuracy, automation, and accessibility of NDE tools will enable these sectors while also benefiting the wide array of industries with established NDE tools and processes. The challenges and emerging opportunities facing nondestructive evaluation cut across a spectrum of technologies and disciplines from materials science to electrical engineering to computer science. Coordination and strategic investments are needed to drive America’s scientific discoveries in next generation NDE towards technologies implemented in our factories and the creation of new economic opportunities. MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight will convene and gather the insights of NDE and manufacturing experts from industry, academia, government, and federal labs to define and prioritize cross-cutting challenges and explore opportunities for coordinated action from public and private stakeholders. The goal is to create actionable recommendations for enhancing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness through NDE. For more information, please reach out to us at [email protected]

Contributors

Dr. Leonard Bond, Professor – Aerospace Engineering Department, Iowa State University

Dr. Brandi Briggs, Mechanical Engineer – NAVAIR

Mr. Bharat Chaudhry, Vice President – Thermal Wave Imaging, Inc.

Mr. Elliott Cramer, Branch Head – Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch NASA Langley Research Center

Dr. Larry Culbertson, Director/COO – NDT Solutions LLC

Mr. Gavin Dao, VP & Director of Business Development – Advanced OEM Solutions (AOS)/The Phased Array Company (TPAC)

Dr. Yuris Dzenis, R. Vernon McBroom Professor of Engineering – Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Mr. David Forsyth, Principal Scientist – NDE Division, TRI Austin

Dr. Gary Georgeson, NDE Senior Technical Fellow – The Boeing Company

S.W. Bill Glass, Technical Advisor – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dr. Michael Groeber, Associate Professor – Integrated Systems Engineering, Ohio State University

Dr. Joel Harley, Assistant Professor – University of Florida

Dr. Waled Hassan, Associate Fellow – Materials – NDT/E, Rolls Royce

Dr. Edward Herderick, Director of Additive Manufacturing – The Ohio State University

Dr. Stephen Holland, Associate Director – Iowa State University Center for NDE

Mr. Patrick Howard, NDE Consulting Engineer – GE Aviation

Dr. Martin Koerdel, Head of Research Group – Component Manufacturing and Inspection Technologies – Siemens Corporate Technology

Dr. Eric Lindgren, Nondestructive Evaluation Technology Lead – Materials State Awareness Branch, Structural Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Material Command

Mr. Rick Lopez, Staff Materials Engineer – Deere & Company – Technology Innovation Center (Ames)

Dr. Harry Martz, Director – Nondestructive Characterization Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Paul Panetta, Principal Scientist and Lab Director – Applied Research Associates, Inc.

Prof. Piero Rizzo, Professor – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Francesco Simonetti, Professor – University of Cincinnati

Mrs. Shana Telesz, Global Product Manager – Radiography Systems Baker Hughes, A GE Company – Inspection Technologies

Dr. Joseph Turner, Robert W. Brightfelt Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Michael Uchic, Research Leader – Materials State Awareness Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory

Dr. Gorm Yoder, Scientific Director – Analytical Development Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Development Janssen R&D

Mr. Paul Zombo P.E., Manager – Technology and Innovation, Siemens Energy Inc.

MForesight’s work was supported by the National Science Foundation from 2015 to 2020 under Grant No. 1552534 to the University of Michigan (Dr. Sridhar Kota).

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