TWI Ltd (UK)
TWI Ltd (UK)
www.twi-global.com
Profile

TWI is one of Europe's foremost independent not-for-profit research and technology organisations, employing 550 people with an annual turnover of 60 million Euro. TWI works across all industry sectors with expertise in key aspects of NDT, materials and materials joining. The majority of TWI's activity (65%) is contract research, funded by industry and built around the development of advanced technologies. TWI is also an active participant in collaborative research programmes in Europe and the UK. TWI has two main NDT Research Centres based at Abington, Cambridge and Port Talbot, South Wales. These centres cover the broad Spectrum of NDT development for single client contracts, joint industry sponsored projects, UK Government projects and European projects. Role in project: Research will include involvement in all WPs with a lead role in the development and trials of the ACFM sensor arrays. Advice and assistance will be provided for the development of high level new and novel phased array UT including array sensor design and technique development. TWI has 70 qualified NDT inspection engineers with academic, research and industrial qualifications. The NDT Technology Section has built up considerable experience and is recognised as expert in the reliability of NDT techniques having won several awards in this area. TWI has the facilities for research in the development of inspection methods. These extensive research equipment and facilities include 6 laboratories, the latest NDT equipment (PAUT systems, Electromagnetic systems both off the shelf and in-house designed and developed real time and digital X-ray equipment).

Participation

TWI will assume the contractual role of Project Co-ordinator in the management Work Package (WP8). The SMEs believe that the past experience of TWI will aid the smooth running of the project. In addition, TWI will have a high degree of involvement in the research tasks by having significant roles in following WPs:

  • WP1. Specification & Defective Samples
  • WP2. NDT Techniques, Sensors & Systems
  • WP3 Development of the Manipulator
  • WP4. Integration and Validation
  • WP5. Demonstration
  • WP6. Training
  • WP7. Exploitation and Dissemination

European Commission Seventh Framework Programme
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 283284.