Partners
TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK (Project Coordinator)
Profile: With 550 skilled staff and a turnover of 57M euros, TWI is one of Europe's largest independent RTDs. It is membership based organisation, with 3,500 Industrial Member companies world wide. Among these, are over 100 companies associated with ship fabrication repair and certification including Rolls Royce (Marine), BAe Systems, Vosper Thorneycroft, Lloyds Register and ABS (Europe). This means that, at the conclusion of Ship-Inspector, there will be an excellent route to market. TWI is currently involved in some 40 EC projects, 24 of them within the NDT Development Group. TWI has become a world leader for NDT development and condition monitoring using LRUT. Some 65 engineers and technicians work in the NDT Technical Development Group, 22 of them on ultrasonic phased array and long range ultrasonic technology.
Role in the Project/Tasks Attributed: Project Coordinator and leader of WP-2 (Development of advanced UT flaw detector and novel UT phased array sensors). TWI has a major role in all of the WPs and is the lead RTD and liaison with the EU Scientific and Administration Officer.
Previous Experience Relating to the Role and Tasks: TWI has a wealth of experience in the management of collaborative projects. It is also very strong in the field of NDT and Condition Monitoring, specifically LRUT, Phased array UT technology and the modelling of ultrasonic waves.
Staff involved: Miss Carmen Castellanos, Project manager and Dr Devashish Fuloria, Technical manager.
Reasons for selection by the SME-AGs: The SME-AGs selected TWI to manage this project and to have a leading research role because of its long and successful experience in managing European projects, its proven technical excellence in NDT and its 15 years experience in LRUT and phased array UT technology. TWI will benefit, because it sees the in-service inspection of ships as a strategic worldwide target for future technology developments and because it wants to integrate LRUT for in-service NDT and inspection.
