ASTM’s
Radiation Thermometry Group, ASNT’s Thermal/Infrared Committee and SPIE’s
Thermosense Plan Historic Meetings during Week of April 16-19, 2001 in Orlando
FL, USA.
ASTM Sub-Committee E20.02 meets April 17, 2001 at the
SPIE’s ThermoSense XXIII International Symposium in Orlando Florida at
Marriott’s World Center Hotel and Conference Center. During the same week,
ASNT’s Thermal/Infrared Testing Committee will also meet at the same location
on April 18th. This is the first time that three of the principal
groups involved in practical infrared temperature measurement and thermal
imaging in the USA will be simultaneously at the same meeting location.
The SPIE ThermoSense XXIII meeting is a four-day
series of technical presentations and workshops from an international group of
authors running from Monday, April 16th through Thursday, April 19th.
The technical papers deal with the many aspects of infrared temperature
measurement and thermal imaging for Research, Process Control, Maintenance and
Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). Featured in the SPIE sessions, for example, this
year are fourteen papers on Radiation Thermometry (non-contact temperature
measurement), Standards and Calibration, two full sessions on NDT and Materials
Evaluation and sessions dealing with Predictive Maintenance, Buildings and
Infrastructure, Biomedical, Process and Product Monitoring, Fire and
Environmental and a special invited panel discussion session on Law Enforcement.
Several of the presenters at these sessions are present or former members
of ASTM’s sub-committee E20.02 on Radiation Thermometry and/or ASNT’s
Thermal/ Infrared Testing Committee. The ThermoSense week also features four
half-day short courses on Thermography, Night Vision and their applications.
Also featured the same week is a group of parallel
technical SPIE conferences on lasers, detectors and other related optical and
infrared technology under the umbrella name of AeroSense (Aerospace/Defense
Sensing, Simulation and Controls). In addition, an exhibition of optical and
infrared hardware and software from an array of national and international
suppliers runs from Tuesday through Thursday at the exhibition hall at the
Marriott World Center.
On Tuesday, the 17th, the ASTM group will
meet in two sessions beginning at 8:30 am to consider actions on existing ASTM
Standard E1256, the status of the ASTM Manual for Users of Radiation
Thermometers (under development) and work plans for new standards development.
All members and interested parties are invited to attend. Details of meeting
room location will be available at the hotel
On Wednesday the 18th, the ASNT committee
will meet to review the status of the ASNT NDT Handbook series addition
“Infrared and Thermal Testing” at their evening meeting. Details will be
available at the hotel.
ASTM is the American Society for Testing and
Materials, headquartered in West Conshohocken PA (near Philadelphia) (http://www.astm.org/).
ASNT is the American Society for Non Destructive
Testing, located in Columbus Ohio (http://www.asnt.org).
SPIE is the International Society for Optical
Engineering with central office in Bellingham, WA. (http://www.spie.org).
ThermoSense is the international, largest and oldest
technical meeting focused on infrared sensing and thermal imaging for
scientific, industrial and commercial uses. It is held annually each spring in
Orlando Florida and brings together scientists and technologists from all over
the world. The publication of the technical presentations each year has created
an enormous resource of applications, technical and scientific information on
infrared methods that is available in nearly every major technical library in
the world.
For more details about the ThermoSense meeting and
short courses, visit the ThermoSense web site at: http://www.thermosense.org.
Contacts include: ThermoSense:
Ralph Dinwiddie at Oak Ridge
National Laboratories, USA (diu@ornl.gov), Andres
Esteban Rozlosnik,
SI Termografia Infrarroja, Argentina
(aer@termografia.com)
the
ThermoSense Co-Chairs and Jonica Todd-Gallery SPIE Technical Program Coordinator
at SPIE headquarters, (jonica@spie.org).
ASTM Sub-Committee E20.02: G. Raymond Peacock,
Chairman at LTV Steel CO. (rpeacock@LTVSteel.com).
ASNT Thermal / Infrared Testing Committee: Albert
Ohliger, Texaco Houston
The notice about the two associated committee meeting
is located under “Related Events” on the web at URL: http://www.thermosense.org/Events.html.
Last Updated on 26 February
2001
By R. B. Dinwiddie