Grade2XL webinar: Non-destructive testing and monitoring techniques for additive manufactured metallic parts

Steve MAHAUT

Steve Mahaut, PhD in Physical Acoustics, Senior Expert at CEA (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission), has been involved in Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) for more than 30 years, starting from Ultrasonic Techniques (UT) phased arrays (PhD, funded by IRSN – expertise body for French nuclear safety -) to wider fields of research and other NDE techniques. He has been in charge of R&D projects for various industrial sectors (Energy, Oil & Gas, transports…) prior to head different laboratories within the NDE Department at CEA: Validation & Test Lab, Modeling & Simulation lab, both related to the world leading multiple NDE techniques – UT/ET/RT – software CIVA, aeronautic applications lab, and NDE methods laboratory. Since January 2023, he is in charge of the Monitoring, Control and Diagnostic Section (~ 95 staff) which gathers 4 laboratories involved in advanced instrumentation methods related to NDE and monitoring, including UT, ET, RT, as as thermography techniques, reflectometry, and fiber optics for NDE, (structural health) or (process) monitoring under harsh conditions.

Anaïs BAUMARD

Anaïs Baumard is a research engineer at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). During recent years, her research has focused on the understanding of metallic additive manufacturing processes, from both an experimental and a numerical point of view. She conceived and implemented the first numerical model at CEA dedicated to the prediction of metallurgical grain structure formation of components manufactured using the selective laser melting process. Today, she is the operational supervisor and lead research engineer of the PRISMA platform at the Technology Research Division of CEA, which is a multi-process robotic platform dedicated to metallic Additive Manufacturing.