About Symposium

June 16-20, 2014 Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui Island, USA

　The Fifth US-Japan Symposium on Emerging NDE Capabilities for a Safer World offers a special opportunity to present at a cooperative symposium which fosters interactions among researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners from the Japan and U.S. This symposium provides opportunities to exchange NDE technical and scientific information, summarize current technological advancements and future directions for advancement in NDE to create a safer world.

Past Symposium

• The First US-Japan Symposium
  　June 24-28, 1996 Tartle Bay Hilton Hotel, Oahu Island, USA
• The Second Japan-US Symposium
  　June 22-25, 1999 Turtle Bay Hilton Hotel, Oahu Island, USA
• The Third US-Japan Symposium
  　June 20-24, 2005 Maui Prince Hotel, Maui Island, USA
• The Fourth Japan-US Symposium
  　June 7-11, 2010 Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Maui Island, USA

• Aging Infrastructure
• NDE Advancements towards Technology Transfer
• Future Direction & Possibilities in NDE
• Probability of Detection with NDE
• Materials Characterization
• Synergies within NDE
• Prognostic tools for NDE
• NDE developments for Transportation Systems
• NDE modeling and signal processing
• Automated NDE
• Performance based NDT
• Certification Criteria
• Measurement Analysis
• Non-Linear Ultrasonic
• Safety and Reliability
• Others