Summit Group and Full Circle Studios collaborate to launch NDTclassroom.com

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The Summit Group has partnered with Full Circle Studios' online learning
division, TruCertified Online to launch an entire series of video based online
NDT training Courses.

These courses are revolutionary in design, deployment and content. The
Summit Group brings Jim Treat and Chuck Hellier to the project in addition to
other high level NDT personnel. Both Mr. Treat and Mr. Hellier are industry
icons who have been extensively involved for decades.

Charles J. Hellier founded and was former President of HELLIER Technical
Training and Consulting. After the acquisition of his Company 1998, he
remained as President then General Manager until his retirement in 2003. He
continued his service with the company in the position of Interim General
Manager then as Senior Director until retiring again in 2011. He has been active
in the Technology of Nondestructive Testing and related Quality and Inspection
fields since 1957. He holds an ASNT Level III Certificate in five methods and is
a Board Certified Forensic Examiner. He holds memberships in ASME, ASTM,
ASM, AWS, ACFE and ASNT (Lifetime, Fellow, and Past President). He is also Past
President, Honorary Member, and remains active with the Nondestructive
Testing Management Association (NDTMA).

Mr. Jim Treat is a former CEO of Rockwood and President of Longview
Inspection. Mr. Treat brings many decades of NDT management experience to
the NDTclassroom project.

FCS has extensive experience in producing custom video-based elearning in
addition to custom designed Learning Managaement Systems (LMS). They have
been involved in the NDT industry for several years producing both online
training and promotional video materials.

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Offshore wind – inspecting the future

The UK’s commitment to the European Union’s 2020 carbon reduction targets has led to a renaissance for green energy generation in the UK. In particular, in the short term, this has meant the increasing deployment of onshore and, more extensively, offshore wind turbines.

Already leading the world in offshore wind turbine deployment, with consents now granted by The Crown Estate in UK waters, developers and wind turbine operators are now planning a ten-fold increase in offshore capacity over the next ten years. The inspection of the wind turbine components, both during manufacture and especially in-service in remote offshore locations, has required the development of inspection techniques and programmes to reduce the risk of failure and meet the challenging demands of this new and growing industry.

TWI has in place an in-service inspection programme for wind turbine blade attachments using phased array ultrasonics on turbines both in the UK and overseas. TWI is planning to offer the industry a packaged collection of suitable inspection methods for complete wind turbine structures, including phased array for foundations, towers and blades, vibrational analysis for rotating machines together with shearography and thermography for turbine blades.

In addition to periodic on-site inspection techniques, TWI is also looking to develop further these techniques to offer remote online condition monitoring services for the growing number of difficult to access offshore wind turbines anticipated worldwide in the future.

As these inspection programmes develop, TWI will be offering compatible training courses.

www.twi.co.uk
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