PIONIC Virtual Round Robin 2

Round-robin exercises are instrumental in assessing the current capability of non-destructive inspections. Especially for challenging inspections, such as dissimilar metal welds, blind exercises and comparative studies give vital information about the true capability of various used methods and procedures and enable comparison between currently used and newly developed methodologies. For inspection companies, round-robin exercises give rare opportunity to benchmark against other inspection companies.

The international PIONIC project will conduct the second virtual round-robin starting from 2022-06-01. The registration is now open. Please see the following links to find more information about the round robin and to participate.

Information leaflet and procedure (PDF) • Invitation (PDF)
 

Participate

To participate in the PIONIC Virtual Round Robin, you need to complete the following steps:

  1. Register with your e-mail address to receive the data files. Your personalized download will be provided. If your download is unsuccessful and you loose the link, you can start again with the same e-mail. Your analysis time counting starts from the moment you start to download the data files for the first time. The e-mail will be used for the distribution of the results.

  2. Evaluate the downloaded data files and indicate the found flaw locations in the included Excel form. You shall use the procedure provided in the leaflet. Should you feel you need to deviate from the procedure to obtain good results, you may do so provided that you document the deviations in the Excel sheet given. Please note, that the objective here is to find all flaw-like indications and to classify all significant indications as flaw-like or non-flaw-like (e.g. geometric). In particular, an amplitude threshold based procedure is not expected to give good results.

    You may choose to participate in flaw detection only or in detection and sizing. Individual flaws may require different techniques for sizing or the data may be insufficient to reliably size some of the flaws. Please indicate the technique used for sizing for each sized flaw.

    Please follow the instructions in the Excel form accurately, the results gathered using automated procedure and mistakes in reporting will cause unnecessary bad results.

  3. Submit the filled Excel with results back. You may submit multiple results with the same participant ID and different inspector name.
  4. Results are distributed to the registered e-mails, once the analysis is complete