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Clive Tuck – Langley Alloys, Meighs Ltd (MCF Chairman) Bill Nimmo -NPL (MCF Vice Chairman) Chris Baxter – AvestaPolarit (committee) Bill Broughton - NPL Markys Cain - NPL Chris Foreman – DfT/Highways Agency (guest) John Fowler – Rolls Royce Richard Freemantle – NDT Solutions (guest speaker) George Grim – Materials & Corrosion Protection (guest) Ken Hay – EMCL (guest) David Howarth – Lloyd’s Register (committee) John Howson – Lloyds Register Robin Jacob – Corrosion Consultancy Manfred Jasner - KM Europa Metals Nick McCormick – NPL |
Duncan Moseley - Kellogg, Brown & Root Robin Oakley – QinetiQ Gary Penney - TWI Vegard Schøyen - Bodycote Faye Smith – TWI Barry Torrance – Aish Technologies (committee) Jean Tuck – MCF Secretariat Ross Tudhope - Kellogg, Brown & Root Ed Warren – Kellogg, Brown & Root Kevin Waterton – CAPCIS (committee) Peter Webster - CDA Robert Wood – Southampton University Jian-Zhong Zhang – Lloyd’s Register |
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Henrik Andersen – Amerada Hess Stuart Bond – TWI Norman Cooper – BAE Systems Peter Cutler – NiDI Jody Dazel-Job – QinetiQ Phil Dent – Bodycote Chris Fowler – Bodycote Roger Francis – Weir Services |
Pat Hall – MoD Roddy James – CorrOcean Len Phillips – Weir Pumps Carol Powell – CDA Willy Schleich – KM Europa Metal Klaus Steinkamp – KM Europa Metal Keith Stokes - DSTL |
The Chairman (Clive Tuck) opened the meeting, welcoming members to the themed meeting on:
1.1 The Chairman showed the meeting an MCF poster and MCF business cards, which along with the existing MCF flyer, were available for members to take to meetings to advertise the Forum. These could be obtained from the Secretariat.
1.2 The Secretariat presented the list and topics of forthcoming meetings. She also reminded the membership that CPD certificates were available after the meeting for those who wished to use these meetings to build up their CPD portfolio. [CPD certificates available from Secretariat on request, at or after meeting]. Most members had now paid their 2003 subscriptions, and financial statements were available for those who wanted one.
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2.1 ‘ Rules for, and Applications of, Marine Composites’, John Howson (Lloyds Register)
2.2
‘
Inspection of GRP and composites for marine applications’,
Gary
Penney (TWI) &
‘State-of-the-art techniques for the ultrasonic inspection
of large area (marine) composite structures’,
Richard Freemantle (NDT Solutions)
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Lunchtime demonstration by Markys Cain (NPL): NPL’s fibre optics table-top demonstrator was used to show how this technology can be used to monitor the condition of composite materials. Different strains could be imposed on the specimen (a model rail bridge) and the lap-top computer simulation showed the distortion of the specimen and the strain level achieved.
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3.1
Robin Oakley (QinetiQ) gave notice of a 3-day course being run by QinetiQ
on " Non-Destructive Evaluation of Composite Materials", 12- 14th
November to be held at the QinetiQ site at Farnborough, Hampshire. The course is
organised by QinetiQ in collaboration with the Composites Centre at Imperial
College, London.
The course aims to introduce participants to the full range of NDE
techniques currently available for inspecting composite materials including
ultrasonics, low frequency methods, x-radiography, image enhancement, acoustic
emission, shearography and thermography.
3.2
Chris Baxter (AvestaPolarit)
announced that he was taking part in a sponsored climb in the Everest foothills
in aid of SCOPE. This is to take
place in February 2004, and sponsorship would be welcomed.
3.3
A question was raised on possible sources of information for cathodic
protection methods which could be used on aluminium-hulled vessels.
It was suggested that a possible source for this might be Stena Finyards,
as they had had experience of aluminium-hulled ferries.
4.1
‘
The Degradation of Polymer Composites in Marine Environments’,
Bill Broughton (NPL)
4.2
‘
Composites used in Minesweepers’, Jody Dazel-Job (QinetiQ,
Rosyth)
[‘Modelling the properties of ageing marine laminates’, by G
Kotsikos, J Dalzel-Job, K
Morris and J Mawella.]
The Chairman closed the meeting at approx. 3:45 pm