29 September – 1 October 2026, Antibes, France The iWeld project will be represented at the Transvalor International Simulation Days (TISD), providing an opportunity to engage with experts in welding simulation, materials modelling and manufacturing technologies. The event will showcase advances in weld simulation, AI-assisted modelling and intelligent inspection approaches …
5-7 October 2026, Stuttgart, Germany The iWeld project will hold its final dissemination event at the annual MPA Seminar in Stuttgart. The event will bring together project partners, industrial stakeholders and members of the NDT community to present the key achievements of the project and discuss future deployment opportunities. The …
iWeld Presented at ECNDT 2026 The iWeld consortium presented a range of research activities at the 14th European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (ECNDT 2026), highlighting recent advances in intelligent weld inspection, ultrasonic modelling and data-driven characterisation of complex materials. The conference provided an opportunity to engage with the wider NDT …
18 March 2026, Stuttgart, Germany The iWeld consortium met at MPA Stuttgart to review progress across all work packages and plan the final phase of the project. Discussions covered weld manufacturing, simulation, AI-based weld modelling, ultrasonic inversion, adaptive imaging, deployment activities and preparations for the final dissemination event. The meeting …
14 November 2024, Antibes, France The Antibes consortium meeting reviewed progress across all project activities and prepared the next phase of the experimental programme. Discussions included mock-up manufacturing, weld modelling, ultrasonic inversion, adaptive imaging and planning for future demonstration activities. The meeting also brought together project partners to coordinate data …
Autumn brings many interesting events this year! Just a week after Transvalor simulation days, our colleagues from the University of Stuttgart organised the renowned MPA seminar. A series of interesting talks on future materials, applications and testing methods included presentations by Prof Mike Lowe from Imperial College London and Andreas …
Celebrating its 40th birthday, Transvalor organised International Simulation Days between September 30 and October 2. This conference gathered academic and industrial experts to discuss simulating material-forming processes, including welding and casting. Over 250 participants and 52 presentations were given, and it is the fourth in a series of similar events. …
iWeld featured at the annual ASNT Research Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, between the 24th and 28th of June 2024. Lucas Queiroz Machado from the University of Southampton presented a paper on the framework for determining complex elastic tensor for heterogeneous materials with elongated grains. This is a homogenisation procedure …
The project team met in Stuttgart on the 22nd and 23rd of January 2024. We shared the exciting progress updates on welding simulation, AI weld description and inversion. Thanks to the top-notch organisation from our hosts at MPA, we had time to discuss essential plans for the coming months and …
iWeld partners showcased work on weld map tomography, spanning across the ADVISE and iWeld projects at the 50th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation conference between the 24th and 27th July 2023 in Austin, TX. Michal Kalkowski (UoS) and Mike Lowe (ICL) presented recent developments in ultrasonic inversion …
