Many maintenance operations in Aeronautic industry are based on the application of NDT techniques. Along with the demands for higher capability in accurately detect, localize and size the imperfections one key challenge for NDT technology is to cope with the high productivity demands.One solution to assure high reliability level and increase productivity is to automate many procedures which are...

BACKGROUND Postural core instability is associated with poor dynamic balance and a high risk of serious falls. Both neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) and dynamic neuromuscular stabilization (DNS) core stabilization exercises have been used to improve core stability, but the outcomes of these treatments remain unclear. OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to examine the therapeutic effects of ...

The requirement to increase inspection speeds for non-destructive testing (NDT) of composite aerospace parts is common to many manufacturers. The prevalence of complex curved surfaces in the industry provides motivation for the use of 6 axis robots in these inspections. The purpose of this paper is to present work undertaken for the development of a KUKA robot manipulator based automated NDT sy...

This paper describes the integration of an ultrasonic-based non-destructive testing (NDT) with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to continuously monitor material integrity during run-time. NDT is a technique that allows the examination of material properties without causing any damage to the material in the process. A wireless sensor network facilitates the collaborative effort to monitor a certa...

Conventional acoustic instruments widely used in industry and technology for material characterisation and quality assessment make use of so-called linear acoustic response of materials that generally results in the amplitude and phase variations of the input signal. The nonlinear approach to acoustic NDT is concerned with non-linear material response, which is inherently related to the frequen...

Use of Non Destructive Testing (NDT) technique during aircraft maintenance operations is increasing in the last years as well as the tools to perform these inspections are widening their field of application. Damage tolerance design approach has been selected by aeronautic industry for the last years also thanking to the most modern NDT capabilities, like ultrasound and thermography, which have...

OBJECTIVES The effectiveness of 2 different types of gait training in stroke rehabilitation, rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) versus neurodevelopmental therapy (NDT)/Bobath- based training, was compared in 2 groups of hemiparetic stroke patients over a 3-week period of daily training (RAS group, n = 43; NDT/Bobath group =35). METHODS Mean entry date into the study was 21.3 days poststroke ...

BACKGROUND/AIM We are developing a neutron dynamic therapy (NDT) with boron tracedrugs for a new mechanical-clearance treatment of pathotoxic misfolded, aggregated, and self-propagating prion-associated disease proteins. We present a compact neutron generator-based NDT using a boron tracedrug UTX-51. Our NDT is based on the weak thermal neutron-bombarded destructive action of UTX-51 on bovine s...

The first issue of NDT was published in 1986, so we are very pleased to present you this anniversary issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of our journal. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, as the journalwas called in those days, now abbreviated to NDT, is the official journal of the European Renal Association/European Dialysis Transplant Association (ERA/EDTA). Spanning these 25 years, fo...