Speaker Details

Dr. Pierre Servais has served 15 years as Air Force Engineer Officer at Belgian Air Force as Captain of Aviation, commander of the NDT squadron mainly on F16 & C130 & military Helicopters. In 2002, he became the only level 3 NDT in 7 methods in Belgium. Since 2007 he worked mainly for Airbus Group inside Europe to validate aerospace manufacturing industries for their NDT processes. He made also more than 150 Nadcap audits and was the founder of the National Aerospace NDT Examination Center. He is also certified by Rolls Royce, Boeing, Safran, Pratt & Whitney, and more recently by ASNT. He is also responsible level 3 NDT for 32 companies in Europe and Asia. Since 2019, he is CEO of a new hi-tech NDT Service Center in Belgium using the latest robotic linescan system with multimethods sensors like Shearography of thermography working for the Space industry & Aviation Manufacturers & Airlines.

Tutorial

Infrared Testing for Aerospace Sector

Outline:

1. Infrared Testing Certfication overview per EN4179 & NAS410
2. Standard Applications of thermography in Aerospace Industry
3. Comparison with Ultrasonics for Composite structure
4. Type of defects found by IRT
5. NDT technique description in details for Active Thermography
6. Case Studies on military and Airbus Aircrafts
7. Lastest Linescan robotic Thermographic system
8. Data Fusion with other digital NDT methods for complex composite structures