The 10-th European Conference on NDT

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the Russian Society for NDT and Technical Diagnostics and the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (Rostekhnadzor) we are happy to invite you to Moscow for the 10th European Conference and Exhibition.

Russia's capital was hosting the 10th World NDT conference in 1982 with guests from 50 countries visiting. It's a great honor and pleasure for the RSNTTD to organize the 10th European NDT conference 28 years since the 10th World conference. We assure you that the upcoming event will put together application of new knowledge levels and achievements in NDT and technical diagnostics field.

Currently, over 220 education institutes, scientific and industrial enterprises and thousands of individuals from over 50 regions of Russia are working within the frames of the RSNTTD. For years, the main goal of was the development and introduction of NDT methods and equipment to improve industrial facilities and comprehensive technical systems safety, to fight terrorism, forecast and reduce losses caused by ecological emergencies, i.e. earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, typhoons and other negative events. Today, more than ever before, intellectualization and automation of NDT methods and instruments, development of multi-stage systems incorporating locally available instruments, equipment and diagnostic centers, mobile and airspace laboratories providing monitoring of generous spaces and large structure for further residual life and operational risks evaluation are of vital importance.

International NDT conferences and exhibitions allow the exchange with knowledge and experience gained both in Russia and abroad to help make another step in the direction of provision of global safety.

We hope, that the 10th European NDT conference and exhibition in Moscow in conditions of an economic crisis will become new positive step ahead on the way of development of diagnostic methods and means that, finally, are the basis of safety for the entire world.

President ECNDT 2010, President RSNTTD V.V. Klyuev

Moscow, 7-11 June 2010

EFNDT President’s message

The European NDT Conference is the achievement for which we are waiting for four years; this time Russian Society for NDT and Technical Diagnostics, RSNTTD, is to be honored for giving us so many reasons to try our best to be at 10th ECNDT.

To our NDT subjects, we are sure, the new ideas and knowledge will be added at this Conference, the greatness of which is obviously seen by already presented preliminary program. At that Conference we shall experience immense horizon of knowledge, which is, let me quote President of ECNDT, prof. Vladimir V. Klyuev "of vital importance today, more then ever before".

NDT people are preparing themselves to participate at 10th ECNDT having motto "NDT-Basis of Safety" which they live and work for. The other side of "Safety medal" is the "safety" of our everyday’s demanding and hard NDT work; NDT professionals supported enormously by knowledge which will be submitted at the Conference will be able to sustain inspection requirements and performance at high level needed to insure that NDT stays the basis of safety.

I am honored being EFNDT President, thus having both; power to call for every activities that our EFNDT members could offer to the success of this European NDT greatest event in 2010, and pleasure to invite worldwide NDT community and related professionals to participate at the 10th ECNDT and celebrate NDT progress.

To President of ECNDT and RSNTTD colleagues for their tireless endeavor, we are honestly grateful.

Dear NDT people and friends, let us be together in Moscow,
Prof.dr.sc. Vjera Krstelj
EFNDT President