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• T he „material’s response” to loading and environment, i.e. service induced degradation processes and their effects (fatigue crack initiation and growth, local corrosion processes such as pitting, crevice corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, creep, erosion, wear, embrittlement and loss of toughness due to temperature or irradiation etc.); • Possible synergy of degradation processes such as environmentally assisted fatigue, irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking. 5.4. General competences of an engineer Beside the specific competencies described above, the NDT integrity engineer should be in possession of general engineering competencies. Some of them are listed here: • Awareness of the wider multidisciplinary context of engineering; • General ability to solve engineering problems in the field of his/her activity by applying relevant analytical, computational and/or experimental methods; • Ability to consult and apply codes of practice and safety regulations; • Awareness of economic, organizational and managerial issues such as project management, risk and change management; • Ability to effectively communicate information and solutions with engineering community and society at large if necessary; • Ability to function effectively in a national and international context, as an individual and as a member of a team, and to cooperate with engineers and non-engineers effectively. 6. Conclusions and summary Based on the economic development tendency, the severity of safety requirements as well as the apparent gap between the knowledge of NDT personnel and decision-maker, the members of the Academia NDT International recognized the need for building up the concept of a new discipline called NDT integrity engineering. Among competencies of the NDT integrity engineer, the NDT related knowledge should be dominant, and this should be supported by the knowledge base that encompasses those engineering areas which contribute to establish any integrity related decision. These are, first of all, the component loading and environment conditions related competencies and the materials science and materials ageing related competencies. The main intention of this paper was to draw attention to the emergency of the profession of NDT integrity engineer to ensure the correct and needed applications of the so powerful NDT methods in materials and components integrity assessment and safety. The Academia’s further intention is to spread the concept and introduce it to universities around the world. Actuality of the Academia’s current effort is clearly demonstrated by similar actions initiated by the European Federation for Non-destructive Testing (European NDE Engineer) and by the American Society for NDT (NDT engineer).

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Messrs. S. Dos Santos, U. Ewert, S. Kenderian, R. Link and Z. Prevorovsky, members of the Academia Council, for their essential help to prepare this paper.

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