Objective
Periodic inspection of the integrity of welds is essential for maintaining safe and efficient operation of critical assets. Methods based on ultrasound have numerous advantages – they are fast, accessible and non-disruptive – but they meet serious obstacles when used on thick welds with a complex microstructure. The H2020 ADVISE project developed and demonstrated techniques to address these challenges in the nuclear energy context. For most of these, the knowledge of the internal material structure of the weld is essential. Building up foundations laid by ADVISE, iWeld aims to progress towards implementing the imaging and characterisation methods in-situ and broaden their application scope beyond the nuclear energy sector. The project will combine insights from a wide spectrum of industries to construct a comprehensive weld library which will be used to train an AI model predicting the internal material structure of the weld. These predictions will be used in further refined inversion and imaging algorithms to deliver a comprehensive inspection planning workflow. The ambition of iWeld is to transform the way to perform ultrasonic inspection on complex welds across several branches of industry and to deliver open tools to support their development.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- EURATOM.1.1 - Improve and support nuclear safety, security, safeguards, radiation protection, safe spent fuel and radioactive waste management and decommissioning, including the safe and secure use of nuclear power and of non-power applications of ionizing radiation Main Programme
- EURATOM.1.1.4 - Nuclear science and ionizing radiation applications, radiation protection, emergency preparedness
- EURATOM.1.1.1 - Nuclear safety
Funding Scheme
EURATOM-IA - EURATOM Innovation Actions
Coordinator
75008 Paris 08
France
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Participants (5)
75015 Paris 15
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06410 Biot
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
70174 Stuttgart
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LT-44029 Kaunas
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91300 Massy
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Partners (2)
SO17 1BJ Southampton
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SW7 2AZ London
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