Nondestructive Testing Unit

Introduction

The Center for Advanced Materials at Qatar University established a NDT unit to cater the training and certification requirements of industry in Qatar. Nondestructive testing (NDT) is a technique used to evaluate a system, material, or object without compromising its potential future usefulness. The term is typically used to describe non-medical investigations of material integrity. NDT is frequently used as an inspection method in the oil and gas sector to find hidden flaws in welds and other metallic components.

Several methods of NDT are extensively used in oil, gas, and other industrial sectors in Qatar. The personnel working with different NDT methods needs internationally approved certification for performing tests and for interpreting the test results.

CAM has unique excellence in the field of material technologies. With well-equipped laboratories and experienced expertise, the Center offers knowledgeable assistance to local oil, gas and processing industries as well as the learning community in Qatar. CAM has a planed to establish a NDT training center in Qatar to cater the training requirements of the local industry in the fields of PCN, ISO 9712-2021, ASNT and other relevant schemes.

High quality training facilities are available at CAM NDT Unit for conducting for the training, certification and characterization of metals and composite material in the following methods

For more information, contact Dr. Umar Amjad at umaramjad@qu.edu.qa

Vision

To become an approved NDT training center and produce excellent and reliable personal in the field of NDT.
To become the excellent training and certification facility with the state-of-the-art technology.

Mission

Ensure that Qatar become self-sufficient in providing the internationally recognized training and certification to NDT personal working in oil and gas, construction and other quality assurance industries in Qatar.
State of the art research to support nondestructive testing and evaluation procedures.

Objectives

The goal of NDT Unit is to build its capacity and develop expertise to support:

Fulfilling NDT training and certification requirements of industry in Qatar
Providing NDT training and certification complying the requirements of international standards
Study of material characterization and evaluations
To develop instrumentation and signal processing tools for artificial intelligence-based Nondestructive testing and Evaluation

NDT Sections

The future vision of the NDT sections are:

NDT Training section
Certification and certificate verification section
Research in Material characterization and evaluation

Facilities and Resources

NDT Unit offers to its academic, research and industrial partners training and certification and other relevant scientific services on demand. NDT Unit possess following high quality equipment.

Equipment, Accessories and pre-cracked test samples available at CAM NDT Unit:

NDT Projects

1. Novel Approaches in the Development and Automation of Autonomous Robotic Approaches for Structural Health Monitoring of Civil and Mechanical Infrastructure Systems.
2. Non contact laser ultrasound inspection of metallic materials.
3. LNG Tank bottom inspection using robotics and magnetic flux leakage techniques.

NDT’s Achievements

The Personnel Certification in Non-Destructive Testing (PCN) Scheme, is run by British Institute of NDT (BiNDT) and offers a system where by Authorized Qualifying Bodies are allowed to organize NDT personnel training and qualification in accordance with European and international standards.

Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK (IMechE) is a global leader in providing training in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and is an Authorized Qualifying Body to conduct PCN scheme training and certification.

IMechE has more than 30 years of training experience in all major NDT and Inspection methods, from Level 1 to Level 3, in both employer-based and internationally recognized personal certificate programs. The Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) at Qatar University and IMechE have established a collaboration to provide NDT training in Qatar in compliance with the PCN Scheme. The Qatari oil and gas industry accepts PCN Certificates.

Workshops and Seminars

Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation Using Guided Acoustic Waves, presented by Dr. Umar Amjad.

Staff

Prof. Mohammad Irshidat
Director of CAM

Dr. Umar Amjad
Research Associate

Dr. Mohamed K. Abbas
Research Assistant

Dr. Mohammed Maqbool
Lab Technician