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Meetings

Our next meeting will be a a joint affair with AFS. The presentation will be on RT of Steel Castings on Monday, February 9, at:

Golden Pheasant Map
668 W. North Ave.
Elmhurst, IL 60126
630-279-8544

Social Hour: 6:00
Dinner: 7:00
Presentation: 8:00

Dinner cost is $20, $10 for students. If you can't make it for dinner, come anyway for the presentation is free. Non-members are always welcome.

Please make reservations by contacting ASNT Chicago Section, 773-742-3775, by February 6. Reservations are not necessary for Board members.


RT of Steel Castings

by

Malcolm Blair

of

Steel Founders Society of America

Radiography of steel castings is frequently used by purchasers to ensure that a certain quality level has been achieved by the foundry. The radiographic standards that are used to determine these quality levels are compared to the images taken from the casting to determine whether they comply with the requirements. Work has shown that it is extremely difficult to differentiate between the most commonly referenced quality levels this leads to disagreements between the supplier and the purchaser.

Current radiographic standards do not give an indication as to the anticipated performance of the part – the standards are commonly termed to be workmanship standards. Designers of components wish to know the effect of the indication on the performance of their parts.

Two approaches are being considered for an improvement in the quality and performance of steel castings through the use of RT and solidification simulation. The approach to RT quality relies on the measurement of the size of the indication at some orientation to the stress caused by loading of the part in service. Solidification simulation addresses indications that would not normally be seen on a film.

Both of these approaches will be discussed.


Speaker Biography

Malcolm Blair
Technical and operations experience including the titanium, wrought steel and steel casting industries, followed by almost 20 years as the Vice President of Technology at the Steel Founders' Society of America (SFSA). Responsibilities at SFSA include the day to day management of research programs totaling approximately $4,000,000 per year, technical support of member foundries and extensive involvement in the areas of standardization in ASTM, API and ISO. The standardization activities have included chairmanship of the ASTM steel castings subcommittee and currently include the chairmanship of the ASTM subcommittee dealing with ISO steel standards. The responsibility of the chairman of the ASTM committee dealing with ISO standards is to coordinate and where appropriate lead the US steel international standardization effort. Within ISO, the current chairman of the committee responsible for the development of steel casting standards.

Qualifications and Awards
BSc Honors – Metallurgy, Manchester University, UK
Award of Merit – ASTM



Meeting/Event Schedule

Date Topic Presenter
January 12
NDT & Special Process
Supplier Development in Asia
Dave Gonion,
Ham'n-Sunst
January 14
NDT Open House MVCC
February 9
 
AFS-ASNT Joint Meeting
RT of Steel Castings
Malcolm Blair, SFSA
February 21 ASNT Chicago Section Demos
at IIT Engineering Week, Wheaton
ASNTCS Board
March 9
 
NDE in Forensic Evaluations
 
Fred Schmidt, ESI
April 13
 
UT Automation
 
Terry Tamutus
May __ Tour: Indianapolis Speedway Ed Messmer
Alternate Speaker NADCAP Auditing
 
Israel Vasquez

Meeting History
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2008 Topic Turnout
December 8 Phased-Array Transducers 23
November 3 Acoustography, a New UT Method 15
October 15 Weld Inspection Using Computed RT 31
September 8 PMI Using XRS 18
May 12 Friction Stir Welds in Al 15
April 14 Resonance Testing 18
March 10 Remote VT 17
February 11 ET Arrays in Power Generation 9
January 14 Plant Tour of GM, EMD, La Grange 21

2007 Topic Turnout
December 10 RT Profiling of Process Piping __
November 19 Failure Analysis of Railcar Bolsters 7
October 10 Phased-Array UT of Welds 46
September 10 Bridge Testing, Monitoring w/AET 13
May 7 Fermilab NUMI Project 14
April 9 Tour of Argonne Labs 12
March 5 Phased-Array UT 25
February 5 Inspection of Pipelines 10
January 15 NDE of Composites 8

2006 Topic Turnout
December 11 ASNT Status 18
November 8 Computerized RT of Weldments 25
October 9 Cleaners and New Equipment 11
September 11 Water Conds'r Boxes at Pwr Plants 8


Please direct any comments or questions
about this website to Walt Stein, 773-742-3775.

2008-2009 ASNT
Chicago Section Board


CHAIRMAN
Larry Koch
Scot Incorporated
2525 Curtiss Street
Downers Grove, IL  60515
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John Zaffer
Rcon-NDT
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Stu Kleven
Alloyweld Inspection
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Bensenville, IL     60106
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Moraine Valley
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Exponent
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Wood Dale, IL 60191
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