CONTENTS

• 95th birthday anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Paton Boris Evgenievich, its president... 3

SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL

• Paton B. E., Troitsky V. A. Main directions of activity of E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of NASU on improvement of nondestructive testing of welded joints... 13
• Nedoseka A. Ya., Nedoseka S. A. Influence of local defect accumulation on propagation of acoustic waves in plates. Information 1... 30
• Uchanin V. N. Analysis of anaxial eddy-current transducers at interaction with electricity-conductive non-magnetic half-space... 37
• Suchkov G. M., Khashchina S. V., Desyatnichenko A. V. Small-sized EMA attachment to batch-produced ultrasonic flaw detector... 44

STANDARTIZATION AND CERTIFICATION

• Belokur I. P., Gordonnaya Yu. O. On personnel certification on NDT of metal structure material degradation... 47

NEWS AND INFORMATION

• Scientific-technical seminar «Methods and means of diagnostics and monitoring of technical conditions of pipeline systems of different diameter»... 56
• International Scientific-Technical Conferences and Exhibition «Oil and Gas Power Generation 2013»... 56
• European Fireworks of NDT Events ... 57
• NPP «ULTRACON-SERVICE» is 20... 59
• Successful innovation is achievement of intellect and not resolution... 61